According to @nic__carter, an exploit allegedly brought down the entire Cardano blockchain, as stated in his X post that links to the purported incident; source: https://twitter.com/nic__carter/status/1992229721283895800. The post provides no technical detail or confirmation from Cardano’s core entities, so the status of the claim remains unverified based on this source; source: https://twitter.com/nic__carter/status/1992229721283895800. Given the market-moving nature of such a headline if verified, traders in ADA pairs should treat the report as unconfirmed until independently validated by official network or exchange status updates; source: https://twitter.com/nic__carter/status/1992229721283895800.

According to @PANewsCN, Berachain validators proactively halted the network to allow the core team to execute an emergency hard fork addressing a Balancer V2-related exploit on BEX, with plans to resume after affected funds are recovered, source: @PANewsCN on X. Smokey the Bera said the pause aims to contain impact on the USDe tri-pool on BEX and that the team requested Ethena to disable bridge outflows from Bera, source: Smokey the Bera on X via @PANewsCN. He added that lending markets have disabled or paused USDe deposits, HONEY minting and redeeming are paused, and centralized exchanges were contacted to blacklist related addresses to aid recovery, source: Smokey the Bera on X via @PANewsCN. The core team will distribute binaries to validators and service providers for the fork, noting the affected pool contains non-native assets and will require slot restructuring beyond simple balance edits, source: Smokey the Bera on X via @PANewsCN.