Maya Protocol exploited as CACAO crashes and a pool loses $11M

Rickler Feed (@rickler_feed), Aug 19, 2026, 08:15 UTC

Maya Protocol exploited as CACAO crashes and a pool loses $11M A Maya Protocol exploit has drained bitcoin and other assets from the cross-chain trading network, sending its CACAO token down about 88% and cutting the affected pool’s value by roughly $11 million. The attacker chained six bugs on MAYAChain to credit a pool with 48.87 million CACAO that were never funded, then withdrew real assets from the Asgard module in a single transaction. The confirmed haul reached about $1.7 million, mostly 20.83 BTC (~$1.34 million) moved off-chain. Maya's automated halt then paused trading for around a…

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