Maya Protocol Halts Operations After MultiBug Exploit Drains CACAO Tokens And CrossChain Assets | Crowdfund Insider
Maya Protocol, a decentralized cross-chain liquidity network that facilitates native swaps of assets such as Bitcoin and Ethereum without centralized intermediaries or wrapped tokens, experienced a major security breach in mid-August 2026. An attacker combined multiple software vulnerabilities to manipulate the protocol’s internal accounting, withdraw a substantial volume of the native CACAO token, and extract real assets from shared liquidity pools. The attack relied on a single intricate trans