Injective Halts Block Production For Hours During Significant $4.9M Hack Response

TL;DR

• Injective halted block production for nearly four hours after an exploit was detected that compromised native modules of the protocol.
• On-chain researchers estimate that around $4.9M were transferred to Ethereum during the attack and remain in the wallet linked to the attacker.
• The foundation did not publish a complete technical postmortem and did not clarify who absorbed the losses or how the ecosystem fund was replenished.

Injective, the layer-1 blockchain, produced no new blocks for nearly four hours while its validators deployed an emergency patch in response to an exploit that on-chain researchers traced to native modules of the protocol.

The foundation described the event as an “accelerated upgrade” rather than a halt, and stated that the network consensus, the native token INJ, and staked assets were never at risk.

OFFICIAL STATEMENT FROM INJECTIVE

Yesterday, Injective contributors coordinated an accelerated network upgrade that took longer than initially expected to complete across all validators and ecosystem infrastructure.

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