Zano Blockchain Restarted After Gateway Address Exploit

The Zano blockchain has been restarted to an earlier height after a vulnerability tied to Gateway Addresses was discovered. This exploit allowed unauthorized ZANO and Freedom Dollar (fUSD) tokens to enter circulation.

The restart reverts the chain to block 3,833,000, immediately before Hard Fork 6 introduced the affected feature.

According to the project's leadership, the recovery will only take full effect once participating nodes, miners, stakers, exchanges, and other services adopt the updated software.

The team says transactions and token activity that occurred during the compromised period will no longer appear on the recovered chain. However, it also warns that the rollback cannot reverse payments that were already settled on other blockchains.