Maya Protocol Hack: $1.7M Drained, Network Halted Cross-chain DEX Maya Protocol (MAYAChain) suspended its entire network after an attacker chained six software bugs together in a single transaction on August 18. What was taken: ▪️ 20.83 BTC (~$1.34M) sent to one Bitcoin address, verified by PeckShield ▪️ ~$300K in other assets ▪️ Total attacker take: ~$1.65M How it worked: A faulty compensation function credited a small liquidity pool with roughly 49M tokens that were never actually funded, the reserve held only about 168K. The failed transfer was never reversed, so the network kept treating the fake balance as real. The attacker deposited a tiny amount, gained 99%+ ownership of that pool, withdrew the inflated balance, and swapped it for real BTC and ETH sitting in Maya's pools. Status: Network still halted. Team has offered a white-hat bounty for return of the funds and pledged to make liquidity providers whole. Patching the code does not restore the pools, the exploit-created supply is now mixed with genuine LP holdings. Official post-mortem pending.