Ontology keeps mainnet paused over confirmed attack while Cronos, Injective return
Sep 1, 2026
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by Hannah Collymore
for CryptoPolitan

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Ontology’s mainnet was paused on August 31 and will remain offline for at least 24 hours, according to a September 1 update, after developers initiated a containment process in response to targeted malicious attack activity. The outage raises immediate security and availability concerns for the blockchain, its DeFi and CEX integrations, and could weigh on adoption and token market impact until full recovery.
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Ontology’s blockchain will remain down for at least the next 24 hours, per a September 1 update after mainnet was temporarily paused as part of a containment process that started on August 31 in response to what project developers now say is due to targeted “malicious attack activity.” While Ontology remains down, two other chains...


