Multichain, a cross-chain bridge platform, has unexpectedly suspended its services and cautioned its user base against transacting after a staggering $126 million asset outflow. This exodus, initially reported by security firm PeckShield, involved cryptocurrency assets being transferred to unidentified wallets predominantly from Multichain’s bridge deployments on Fantom and Dogechain:

The Multichain service stopped currently, and all bridge transactions will be stuck on the source chains.

There is no confirmed resume time.

Please don’t use the Multichain bridging service now.

— Multichain (Previously Anyswap) (@MultichainOrg) July 7, 2023

The firm’s Twitter statement read, “The Multichain service has currently stopped, and all bridge transactions will remain stuck on the source chains. There is no confirmed resumption time.”

Multichain manages over $1.2 billion in assets across various networks, holding a market cap of almost $51 million.

An on-chain analyst and former researcher at Huobi Ventures, Loki Zeng, suggested that the nature of the transfers raises questions. The characteristics of the transfers could be suggests either an attacker gaining access to Multichain’s multi-party computation wallet’s private key shards or the involvement of a white hat hacker. However, these remain conjectures as the actual cause remains unknown.

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