The token of MANTRA, an Ethereum Virtual Machine layer-1 built for real-world assets such as funds and bonds, plunged 18.5% to a record low shortly before the network stopped producing blocks and was halted following a software exploit. MANTRA fell from $0.005060 to an all-time low of $0.004126 around 11:10 p.m. UTC Thursday, according to CoinGecko. It later recovered to about $0.0044 but remained down roughly 10% over 24 hours, while trading volume jumped nearly 600% to $24 million.