The pause allows developers to roll out an emergency hard fork aimed at isolating compromised contracts and recovering affected assets before resuming operations.
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CoinDeskBerachain Halts Network to Contain Balancer-Linked Exploit, Conduct ‘Emergency Hard Fork’
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