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What is Mantra (MANTRA)?

MANTRA (formerly OM) originated in 2020 as a community-driven decentralized finance project whose OM token was initially issued as an ERC-20 token on Ethereum. The project subsequently evolved into MANTRA Chain, a purpose-built, EVM-compatible Layer-1 blockchain built using the Cosmos SDK and designed specifically for real-world asset (RWA) tokenization and regulatory-compliant on-chain applications. MANTRA Chain's mainnet genesis occurred on October 10, 2024, with the network providing native compliance-oriented infrastructure and support for both permissionless and permissioned applications. Following community-approved governance proposals, the original OM token was migrated toward the MANTRA Chain native staking coin, and at block 13,000,000 in March 2026, the token underwent a 1:4 split and ticker transition from OM to MANTRA, increasing the hard-capped maximum supply proportionally from 2.5 billion to 10 billion units. The MANTRA token now functions as the network's native staking, governance, and utility asset, supporting validator security, transaction fees, and participation in the chain's on-chain governance system. (Source: MANTRA Chain Documentation)

Risk Associated to the Digital Asset

Mantra (MANTRA) presents a specific risk profile that investors and market participants must navigate:

Market Volatility Risk: The asset has historically demonstrated extreme volatility. In April 2025, the token price plunged by over 90% in a single day, an event attributed to low liquidity and a cascade of automated margin liquidations on centralized exchanges. (Source: Koinly)
Regulatory & Adoption Risk: Because MANTRA is heavily focused on RWA tokenization, its long-term success is highly dependent on institutional adoption and the evolving, often unpredictable global regulatory landscape for tokenized securities and commodities.
Cybersecurity & Custody Risk: As a Layer-1 blockchain connecting to Ethereum and the broader Cosmos ecosystem via Inter-Blockchain Communication (IBC), the network relies on cross-chain bridges and smart contracts that inherently introduce complex, multi-chain attack vectors. (Source: Mantra Chain Documentation)
Concentration & Liquidity Risk: A significant portion of the token supply was initially held by team and ecosystem contracts. Historical events have proven the asset can experience severe secondary market dislocation and liquidity fragmentation during periods of extreme market stress.
Centralization & Governance Risk: Technical security audits have previously highlighted centralization risks, such as the initial use of a single externally owned account (EOA) for critical administrative functions, giving administrators the theoretical capability to control core network operations if compromised.

Customers are strongly advised to thoroughly understand the asset before trading.

Trading History of Digital Asset

Market Capitalization & Liquidity: MANTRA has experienced substantial market-cap and liquidity fluctuations following the 2025 market dislocation and its subsequent token redenomination. In March 2026, the former OM token underwent a 1:4 split and ticker transition to MANTRA, proportionally increasing the maximum supply from 2.5 billion to 10 billion tokens without creating additional economic value for existing holders. Current market capitalization and trading-volume figures should therefore be evaluated using the post-split MANTRA supply and market data. (Source: MANTRA Chain Documentation – MANTRA Tokenomics | MANTRA Chain – Official Token Upgrade Announcement | CoinGecko)
Typical Daily Volume: MANTRA continues to maintain spot-market liquidity across multiple centralized and decentralized trading venues. However, given the token's historically significant price volatility and the March 2026 redenomination, a fixed $15–40 million daily-volume range should be treated as a point-in-time observation rather than a stable historical average. Current 24-hour volume should preferably be refreshed directly from CoinGecko or another market-data provider at the time of assessment. (Source: CoinGecko)
Institutional Integration: MANTRA is explicitly designed as a regulatory-compliant Layer-1 for real-world asset tokenization, supporting both permissionless and permissioned applications and incorporating infrastructure for KYC/KYB/KYT requirements. Its developer documentation also demonstrates RWA tokenization through whitelist-based investor controls and restricted transfers. Institutional integration has continued to develop, including the addition of Securitize—the regulated tokenization platform associated with products such as BlackRock's BUIDL—to MANTRA's validator set in May 2026. (Source: MANTRA Chain Documentation – MANTRA Overview | MANTRA Developer Documentation – RWA Tokenization Example | MANTRA – Securitize Joins MANTRA Validator Set)

Incidents of Manipulation or Security Failures

MANTRA Chain is secured through a Proof-of-Stake consensus architecture based on the Cosmos SDK and CometBFT, with MANTRA token holders able to delegate their tokens to validators responsible for block production and network security. (Source: MANTRA Chain – Architecture Overview)

The network experienced a severe market and liquidity incident on April 13, 2025, when MANTRA's token price declined by more than 90% within a short period. Available reporting did not establish a definitive protocol exploit or confirmed insider rug pull; instead, the event was associated with large-scale selling, leveraged liquidations, and concerns surrounding token concentration and liquidity. The incident nevertheless exposed significant market-structure and concentration risks, particularly because large transactions can have an outsized impact when available market liquidity is limited. (Source: Koinly | CoinDesk)

Following the incident, MANTRA announced measures intended to improve transparency and reduce concentration risk, including the burning of 150 million OM tokens from the team's allocation and changes to validator participation intended to broaden the network's validator set. These measures should be viewed primarily as post-incident tokenomics and decentralization measures, rather than remediation of a confirmed blockchain exploit. (Source: MANTRA – Official April 2025 Incident Response)

At the protocol-security level, Hacken's security assessment of MANTRA Chain identified vulnerabilities and security issues across its implementation, including issues associated with dependencies and the CosmWasm environment. The identified findings were subsequently addressed or otherwise acknowledged by the development team. The assessment also identified risks associated with privileged administrative functionality, demonstrating that MANTRA's security profile includes not only conventional software vulnerabilities but also centralization and administrator-privilege risks. (Source: Hacken – MANTRA Chain Security Audit)

Token Ownership Concentration

Originally capped at 888,888,888 OM, the token supply was doubled to approximately 1.77 billion ahead of the October 2024 mainnet launch to accommodate mainnet staking coins, ecosystem growth, and legacy token migrations. Following an automatic 1:4 token split executed around March 2, 2026, the maximum hard cap was expanded proportionally, converting each old OM token into four MANTRA tokens while maintaining the overall market capitalization.

The protocol's emission schedule initially proposed an 8% inflation rate, which was subsequently reduced to a 3% fixed rate following community governance feedback. (Source: MANTRA Chain Documentation)

Vesting schedules are strictly structured to mitigate insider sell pressure: core contributors were allocated 16.9% of the genesis supply, which was subjected to a 30-month cliff followed by 30 months of linear vesting, effectively locking these allocations for up to 5 years from the mainnet launch.

Despite these lock-ups, ownership concentration remains notable. Historical on-chain analytics have shown that the top 10 addresses hold roughly 22% of the total supply, representing a mix of team vesting contracts, the foundation treasury, and major exchange omnibus wallets. (Source: MANTRA Chain Mainnet Explorer)

Security Audit

MANTRA operates as a sovereign Layer-1 blockchain purpose-built for regulated Real-World Asset (RWA) tokenization and institutional DeFi applications. Its security posture relies on Cosmos SDK-based Byzantine Fault Tolerant consensus, formal third-party protocol audits, native execution layer isolation, and decentralized validator infrastructure.

Cosmos SDK & CometBFT Consensus: Core network security is maintained by a Proof-of-Stake (PoS) validator set executing CometBFT (Tendermint BFT) consensus, providing deterministic single-slot finality and protecting against transaction re-ordering and double-spend vectors.
Hacken Security Audit & Remediation: The Layer-1 codebase—including native modules (x/did, x/guard, x/coinfactory, x/token) and execution environments—underwent a comprehensive third-party audit by Hacken. Identified edge cases, including critical CORS dependency vulnerabilities and CosmWasm stack dependencies, were fully patched and updated to stable release targets before production deployment.
Decentralized Identity (DID) & Compliance Modules: Rather than enforcing compliance purely at the application layer, MANTRA integrates native Decentralized Identifier (x/did) modules and non-transferable Soulbound Tokens (SBTs) directly into the blockchain runtime. This allows smart contracts and institutional issuers to enforce automated KYC/AML parameters directly on-chain without requiring centralized custodial control.
Interoperability & Smart Contract Isolation: Inter-chain communication is secured via the Inter-Blockchain Communication (IBC) protocol. Smart contract execution is isolated using web-assembly-based CosmWasm and EVM runtime modules, ensuring that application-level reentrancy or state bugs in third-party dApps cannot compromise the core validator consensus layer.

Hata Custody Controls

For client assets held on Hata, Hata maintains its standard institutional custody and compliance framework: SOC 2 Type II certified custody, multi-signature (Multi-Sig) withdrawal authorisation, segregation of client assets, audited operational governance, continuous blockchain-analytics monitoring, and FATF Travel Rule compliance aligned with major regimes (EU/MiCA, Singapore, Japan and the UAE). These controls govern how Hata safeguards SAFE held with the exchange and are independent of the asset's own protocol-level security.

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