TechStopping a blockchain does not always recover stolen funds: What happened when three networks halted

Cronos, Ontology and ICON each stopped producing blocks within four days, but used different emergency powers. Cronos went further by restoring its state to before the Tectonic exploit, discarding later state and transactions from the canonical chain. Assets that had moved to Ethereum or centralized custodians remained outside the network’s reach, while the final losses and recovery prospects are still unresolved.

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