MANTRA Chain Halt: The Network Is Back, the Exchange Withdrawal Is Still Frozen

When a blockchain is halted, your tokens do not disappear. The balance stays exactly in the state recorded by the last valid block. What disappears is the ability to move that balance. The key question after a chain halt is therefore not whether your holdings are still there, but when you can reach them again.

In MANTRA's case that question can now be answered precisely, and the answer has two halves that have little to do with each other. The chain has been producing blocks again since 03:38:07 UTC on August 22, 2026. The withdrawal of the OM token at Binance was still suspended at 18:38 UTC the same day. Roughly fifteen hours after the blockchain restarted, a holder with OM on that exchange still could not reach their balance.

Both figures come from our own queries to the respective primary source and are set out further down with block height, timestamp and wording. The case is instructive well beyond this one token, because it draws a clean line between the two things every chain shutdown tends to conflate: the state of the network and the state of your exchange. How differently trading venues handle such disruptions, and which of them publish a network status at all, is set out in our comparison of the best crypto exchanges.

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