Tectonic Cronos Exploited for $75M as CRO Falls -2%

CRO is trading near $0.05636, down 4.89% on the day, as the Cronos network digests one of its messiest weekends in recent memory following the exploitation of the Tectonic Cronos DeFi platform, which halted the entire chain. Cronos confirmed Sunday (August 30) that it identified an exploit targeting Tectonic, a decentralized lending protocol built on the chain, and paused the network in response. Tectonic separately warned users not to interact with the protocol. We identified an exploit in Tectonic. The Cronos Network has been halted and we'll provide updates here — Cronos Network (@CronosNetwork) August 30, 2026 Researcher Weilin Li said the attacker exploited TONIC’s 20% collateral factor and thin liquidity, pumping the governance token 100-fold in 20 minutes before borrowing against it, a pump-and-borrow style attack. Li’s estimate of losses has climbed from $66M to roughly $75M as additional attacker-controlled wallets surfaced. Crypto.com CEO Kris Marszalek said the exchange and app were unaffected, easing some of the contagion fears. Still, the exploit lands amid an already fragile technical setup for CRO, with the token down over -5% over the past week before this news drop...