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   {"actor":"system:backfill","investigation_id":"7ac3f21e-148b-480d-819a-03f801317c91","kind":"publish","page_slug":"mantra-om-token","published_at":"2026-06-07T22:10:46.269Z","sequence_num":1,"snapshot":{"content_type":"investigation","entity_name":"MANTRA (OM Token)","sections":[{"content":"MANTRA describes itself as an EVM-compatible Layer 1 blockchain built on the Cosmos SDK, designed to tokenize real-world assets such as real estate and financial instruments while maintaining regulatory compliance. The project was originally launched as MANTRA DAO, a staking and governance platform, before pivoting to an RWA-focused Layer 1 chain. Co-founder and CEO John Patrick Mullin holds a B.S. in Business Administration from Saint Louis University (2014) and graduate degrees from Tongji University and EBS Universitat fur Wirtschaft und Recht in Technology Economics and Management (2016). In March 2024, MANTRA Chain raised $11 million in a funding round led by Shorooq Partners, with participation from Three Point Capital, Forte Securities, Virtuzone, Hex Trust, and GameFi Ventures. The MANTRA mainnet launched in October 2024. On February 19, 2025, MANTRA Finance FZE became the first DeFi platform to secure a Virtual Asset Service Provider (VASP) license from Dubai's Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority (VARA), authorizing it to operate as a Virtual Asset Exchange and offer Broker-Dealer, Management, and Investment Services. In May 2024, Laser Digital, the digital assets arm of Nomura Group, announced a strategic investment in MANTRA to accelerate RWA tokenization in the Middle East and Asia; the financial terms of the investment were not disclosed.","heading":"Project Background","severity":"low","sources":[{"credibility":1,"name":"MANTRA Chain Raises $11M for RWA Tokenization with Middle East Tint","type":"news_article","url":"https://www.coindesk.com/business/2024/03/19/mantra-chain-raises-11m-for-rwa-tokenization-with-middle-east-tint"},{"credibility":1,"name":"MANTRA Secures VARA License — CoinDesk","type":"news_article","url":"https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2025/02/19/defi-platform-mantra-secures-dubai-license-expanding-global-reach"},{"credibility":2,"name":"MANTRA Secures Strategic Investment from Nomura's Laser Digital — Chainwire","type":"news_article","url":"https://chainwire.org/2024/05/23/mantra-secures-strategic-investment-from-nomuras-laser-digital-to-accelerate-rwa-tokenization-initiatives-in-the-middle-east-and-asia/"},{"credibility":2,"name":"Introducing MANTRA Chain: The Most Hyped RWA L1? — CoinGecko","type":"research","url":"https://www.coingecko.com/learn/what-is-mantra-chain-om-crypto"}]},{"content":"Prior to the April 2025 crash, MANTRA made a series of tokenomics changes that drew criticism from analysts and community members. In October 2024, coinciding with the mainnet launch, MANTRA doubled the total OM token supply from approximately 888 million tokens to roughly 1.77–1.82 billion tokens by minting an equivalent number of new OM on the new chain. Simultaneously, the project transitioned from a fixed-supply model to an inflationary model with a reported annual inflation rate of approximately 3%. Critics noted that the supply doubling diluted existing holders by approximately 50% and that the shift to an uncapped inflationary model removed the hard cap that had previously supported token scarcity. Analysts at the time estimated that approximately 90% of the circulating supply was held by the MANTRA team or early investors, creating extreme concentration risk. Separately, the project's airdrop program faced repeated community criticism: the airdrop was delayed multiple times, eligibility rules were altered on multiple occasions, and approximately 50% of eligible addresses were disqualified as alleged bots without detailed public justification. Community members alleged the airdrop process disproportionately favored insiders while excluding genuine retail participants. Additionally, investigative reports alleged that MANTRA and associated market makers exploited self-reporting vulnerabilities in CoinGecko and CoinMarketCap's validation systems to artificially inflate OM's apparent circulating supply and trading volume figures, with one analysis stating that 'OM appeared to be a top-25 asset by market capitalization despite less than 1% of the token supply being genuinely liquid.' These allegations have not been independently verified through court filings or regulatory actions as of the date of this investigation.","heading":"Tokenomics Concerns and Supply Changes","severity":"high","sources":[{"credibility":2,"name":"MANTRA (OM) Crash: 5 Crucial Red Flags Investors Missed — BeInCrypto","type":"news_article","url":"https://beincrypto.com/mantra-om-token-collapse-red-flags/"},{"credibility":2,"name":"Mantra, market makers allegedly exploited validation gaps to inflate OM token liquidity — CryptoSlate","type":"news_article","url":"https://cryptoslate.com/mantra-market-makers-allegedly-exploited-validation-gaps-to-inflate-om-token-liquidity/"},{"credibility":2,"name":"Why Tokenomics Matters: Looking into Mantra $OM sell-off — Aspen Digital via Medium","type":"research","url":"https://medium.com/@aspendigitalAMP/why-tokenomics-matters-looking-into-mantra-om-sell-off-53cb32080446"},{"credibility":3,"name":"Caution Advised: Token Supply Doubling for MANTRA ($OM) — Binance Square","type":"community_report","url":"https://www.binance.com/en-TR/square/post/17128986839105"},{"credibility":2,"name":"Is Mantra's Airdrop Rigged? On-Chain Sleuth Exposes Suspicious $OM Token Movements — Blocmates","type":"news_article","url":"https://www.blocmates.com/news-posts/is-mantra-s-airdrop-rigged-on-chain-sleuth-exposes-suspicious-om-token-movements"}]},{"content":"On April 13, 2025, beginning at approximately 18:28 UTC — during a period of characteristically low liquidity, described by analysts as approximately 2:00 a.m. Hong Kong Time on Monday — the OM token experienced a price collapse of approximately 90–92% within roughly one hour. The token fell from approximately $6.14–$6.32 to a low of approximately $0.40–$0.57. At its peak before the crash, MANTRA carried a market capitalization of approximately $6.46 billion; this figure fell to approximately $683–$740 million within hours, representing a loss of roughly $5–6 billion. Trading volume surged approximately 3,425% to $2.6 billion within the subsequent 24 hours. Over $50 million in liquidations were recorded on long OM-tracked futures positions, and open interest collapsed from approximately $345 million to just over $130 million. A price divergence between OKX and Binance spot markets was observed in the hours preceding the most acute phase of the decline. On-chain analytics firm Arkham Intelligence identified 17 wallets that deposited a combined 43.6 million OM tokens — valued at approximately $227 million at pre-crash prices — to Binance and OKX in the days preceding the April 13 collapse. The event drew widespread comparisons to the collapse of Terra's LUNA token in May 2022.","heading":"The April 13, 2025 Token Collapse","severity":"critical","sources":[{"credibility":1,"name":"Mantra's OM Crashes 90% in Bizarre Sell-Off as Team Alleges 'Forced Liquidations' — CoinDesk","type":"news_article","url":"https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2025/04/14/mantra-s-om-crashes-90-in-bizarre-selloff-as-team-alleges-forced-liquidations"},{"credibility":1,"name":"How Mantra's OM token collapsed in 24 hours of chaos — CoinTelegraph","type":"news_article","url":"https://cointelegraph.com/news/mantra-om-token-collapsed-24-hours"},{"credibility":2,"name":"Mantra Token Plummets 90%: Team Blames Exchange Liquidations — CoinMarketCap","type":"news_article","url":"https://coinmarketcap.com/academy/article/mantra-token-plummets-90percent-team-blames-exchange-liquidations-as-market-cap-shrinks-to-dollar683-million"},{"credibility":2,"name":"Mantra's OM token crash saw 7,000% surge in derivatives trading amid market chaos — CryptoSlate","type":"news_article","url":"https://cryptoslate.com/mantras-om-token-crash-sees-7000-surge-in-derivatives-trading-amid-market-chaos/"}]},{"content":"Following the crash, co-founder John Patrick Mullin stated in an April 14, 2025 post on the social platform X that the price decline was caused by 'reckless forced closures initiated by centralized exchanges on OM account holders,' alleging insufficient notice had been given to holders and characterizing the exchange behavior as 'intentional market positioning.' The MANTRA team's official statement attributed the decline specifically to forced liquidations during a low-liquidity trading window, asserting that the project's fundamentals remained sound and that 'today's activity was triggered by reckless liquidations, not anything to do with the project.' OKX founder Star Xu publicly stated that the incident was 'a big scandal to the whole crypto industry' and offered to provide 'all of the reports ready' regarding collateral and liquidation data. Binance suggested the crash may relate to 'cross-exchange liquidations' rather than coordinated insider selling. MANTRA CEO Mullin subsequently revealed to CoinTelegraph that he had retained an unnamed blockchain analytics firm to independently investigate the crash, but stated the details of that investigation were confidential. MANTRA also launched a real-time tokenomics transparency dashboard following the crash as part of its stated commitment to increased disclosure.","heading":"Team's Explanation: Forced Exchange Liquidations","severity":"high","sources":[{"credibility":2,"name":"MANTRA Official Statement of Events: 13 April 2025","type":"official","url":"https://mantrachain.io/resources/announcements/statement-of-events-13-april-2025"},{"credibility":2,"name":"MANTRA co-founder says forced liquidations triggered OM token's 90% crash — Crypto Briefing","type":"news_article","url":"https://cryptobriefing.com/om-token-crash-centralized-exchanges/"},{"credibility":1,"name":"Mantra's OM Crashes 90% in Bizarre Sell-Off as Team Alleges 'Forced Liquidations' — CoinDesk","type":"news_article","url":"https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2025/04/14/mantra-s-om-crashes-90-in-bizarre-selloff-as-team-alleges-forced-liquidations"},{"credibility":1,"name":"Mantra CEO denies insider OM token dump, says Arkham 'mislabeled' wallets — CoinTelegraph","type":"news_article","url":"https://cointelegraph.com/news/mantra-investors-dumped-om-before-90-percent-crash"}]},{"content":"On-chain analytics from Arkham Intelligence flagged 17 wallets that deposited a combined 43.6 million OM tokens (approximately $227 million at pre-crash prices) to Binance and OKX in the days before the April 13 collapse. Among these, at least two wallets were labeled by Arkham as linked to Laser Digital, the Nomura-backed strategic investor in MANTRA. According to the Arkham data, one Laser Digital-linked wallet (identified by the prefix '0x84EE7') sent approximately 6.5 million OM tokens to OKX in seven transactions beginning April 11, 2025, while another sent approximately 2.2 million OM to Binance in a series of transfers beginning April 3, 2025. A separate wallet linked by Arkham to Shorooq Partners — the lead investor in MANTRA's $11 million funding round — allegedly received 2 million OM tokens shortly before the crash. CEO Mullin publicly denied insider selling, asserting that Arkham had 'mislabeled' the flagged wallets, noting that Arkham's magenta-colored labels represent low-confidence AI predictions rather than verified identifications. Laser Digital issued a public denial stating that 'assertions circulating on social media that link Laser to investor selling are factually incorrect and misleading,' and shared wallet addresses they asserted were their controlled holdings, none of which showed exchange deposits or selling activity. A spokesperson for Shorooq Partners also denied that the firm or its partners had sold OM tokens before the crash. The dispute over wallet ownership and the accuracy of Arkham's labeling methodology remained unresolved as of the date of this investigation. All claims of insider selling remain alleged and have not been confirmed through verified on-chain attribution or legal proceedings.","heading":"Alleged Insider Selling and Wallet Controversy","severity":"critical","sources":[{"credibility":1,"name":"Nomura's Laser Digital Denies Involvement in Mantra Crash — CoinDesk","type":"news_article","url":"https://www.coindesk.com/business/2025/04/14/nomura-s-laser-digital-denies-involvement-in-mantra-crash"},{"credibility":2,"name":"Investors of Mantra Refute Claims of OM Token Dumping Ahead of Crash Despite Arkham Findings — CoinMarketCap","type":"news_article","url":"https://coinmarketcap.com/academy/article/investors-of-mantra-refute-claims-of-om-token-dumping-ahead-of-crash-despite-arkham-findings"},{"credibility":1,"name":"MANTRA debacle sparks liquidations and accusations as Laser Digital denies role — The Block","type":"news_article","url":"https://www.theblock.co/post/350762/the-daily-mantra-debacle-sparks-liquidations-and-accusations-as-laser-digital-denies-role-in-om-token-crash-and-more"},{"credibility":1,"name":"Mantra CEO denies insider OM token dump, says Arkham 'mislabeled' wallets — CoinTelegraph","type":"news_article","url":"https://cointelegraph.com/news/mantra-investors-dumped-om-before-90-percent-crash"}]},{"content":"OKX issued a public statement — posted on the social platform X and later expanded — alleging that multiple connected and colluding accounts had 'used large quantities of OM as collateral to borrow significant amounts of USDT, artificially pushing OM's price up.' OKX stated that its risk management team had flagged the activity, contacted the relevant account holders, and requested corrective action, but that 'they refused to cooperate,' at which point the exchange took control of the related accounts. OKX stated that its own liquidation of OM positions represented 'only a very small portion' of the selling, and that losses from the event were fully absorbed by the OKX Security Fund. The exchange stated it had submitted 'extensive evidence to regulators and law enforcement agencies,' with multiple litigation proceedings underway as of December 2025. The nature of those proceedings, the jurisdictions involved, and the identities of the account holders referenced by OKX have not been publicly disclosed. MANTRA CEO Mullin disputed OKX's narrative, stating that neither he nor MANTRA had any ongoing litigation with OKX and requesting that OKX publicly disclose what proportion of OM token holdings on its platform belonged to retail users versus OKX's own balance sheet. The dispute over causation and responsibility remains active and unresolved.","heading":"OKX Allegations: Coordinated Price Manipulation","severity":"critical","sources":[{"credibility":2,"name":"OKX statement on colluding accounts — X (OKX official)","type":"social_media","url":"https://x.com/okx/status/1999579798545543212"},{"credibility":2,"name":"OKX says 'multiple litigations' involving Mantra underway — Protos","type":"news_article","url":"https://protos.com/okx-says-multiple-litigations-involving-mantra-underway/"},{"credibility":2,"name":"OKX, Mantra dispute over price manipulation accusation — Cryptopolitan","type":"news_article","url":"https://www.cryptopolitan.com/okx-mantra-price-manipulation-accusation/"},{"credibility":2,"name":"OM Token Crash Fuels Mantra-OKX Dispute Over Potential Price Manipulation","type":"news_article","url":"https://bitcoinethereumnews.com/tech/om-token-crash-fuels-mantra-okx-dispute-over-potential-price-manipulation/"}]},{"content":"Following the crash, CEO John Patrick Mullin announced plans to burn his entire personal allocation of team tokens. In an initial statement, Mullin said: 'I'm planning to burn all of my team tokens and when we turn it around the community and investors can decide if I have earned it back.' On April 22, 2025, MANTRA announced a formal plan to burn 300 million OM tokens in total — representing approximately 16.5% of the 1.82 billion total supply and valued at approximately $160 million at post-crash prices. Of this total, 150 million tokens were Mullin's personal team allocation, and a further 150 million were to be sourced from ecosystem partners and the DAO treasury following a community governance vote. These team-allocated tokens had originally been scheduled for gradual vesting between April 2027 and October 2029. The unstaking process was initiated immediately, with completion targeted for April 29, 2025. The 300 million burn was expected to reduce the total supply from approximately 1.82 billion OM to approximately 1.52 billion OM and reduce the bonded ratio from 31.47% to 25.30%. MANTRA also announced a token buyback program: in August 2025, the project committed a minimum of $25 million to buy back approximately 110 million OM tokens (approximately 10% of circulating supply) on major centralized exchanges. Combined with a $20 million investment from Inveniam, total stated recovery commitments reached $45 million. Despite these measures, OM's price continued to decline and had extended its total 2025 loss to approximately 99% from its February 2025 all-time high of approximately $9.00 by later in 2025, trading at approximately $0.0134 as of available data. MANTRA also announced a token migration: each OM token would be exchanged for four new MANTRA tokens at a 1:4 ratio, with the ticker permanently changing from OM to MANTRA.","heading":"Token Burn and Recovery Actions","severity":"high","sources":[{"credibility":1,"name":"Mantra OM News: Founder to Burn $80M of Own Tokens Following 90% Price Drop — CoinDesk","type":"news_article","url":"https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2025/04/22/mantra-to-burn-160m-om-tokens-50-from-daos-founder-following-90-price-crash"},{"credibility":1,"name":"MANTRA founder will burn $82 million worth of his OM tokens to 'rebuild trust' — The Block","type":"news_article","url":"https://www.theblock.co/post/351379/mantra-founder-will-burn-82-million-worth-of-his-om-tokens-to-rebuild-trust-following-5-billion-crash"},{"credibility":1,"name":"Mantra CEO Pledges to Burn His Team Tokens After Major 90% OM Crash — Decrypt","type":"news_article","url":"https://decrypt.co/315077/mantra-ceo-pledges-to-burn-his-team-tokens-after-major-90-om-crash"},{"credibility":2,"name":"MANTRA Announces Additional $25,000,000 Minimum Funding Commitment for First of Strategic OM Token Buybacks — PR Newswire","type":"official","url":"https://www.prnewswire.com/in/news-releases/mantra-announces-additional-25-000-000-minimum-funding-commitment-for-first-of-strategic-om-token-buybacks-302540263.html"},{"credibility":2,"name":"Mantra shares buyback and 300M token burn details as CEO commits personal holdings — FXStreet","type":"news_article","url":"https://www.fxstreet.com/cryptocurrencies/news/mantra-shares-buyback-and-300m-token-burn-details-as-ceo-commits-personal-holdings-202504182046"}]},{"content":"As of the date of this investigation, no formal SEC, CFTC, or DOJ enforcement actions against MANTRA or John Patrick Mullin have been publicly announced. OKX stated in December 2025 that it had submitted extensive evidence to regulators and law enforcement agencies, and that 'multiple litigations and legal proceedings' involving MANTRA were active, but the nature, jurisdictions, and status of those proceedings were not publicly disclosed by either party. OKX also stated it had 'called law enforcement on OM tokenholders' allegedly involved in the collateral manipulation scheme it described. MANTRA's CEO denied any ongoing litigation between the project and OKX. In parallel, MANTRA successfully maintained its VARA license in Dubai and continued to pursue its regulatory compliance positioning as a licensed virtual asset exchange in the UAE. No VARA regulatory action against MANTRA has been publicly reported as of this investigation.","heading":"Legal and Regulatory Developments","severity":"high","sources":[{"credibility":2,"name":"OKX says 'multiple litigations' involving Mantra underway — Protos","type":"news_article","url":"https://protos.com/okx-says-multiple-litigations-involving-mantra-underway/"},{"credibility":1,"name":"MANTRA Secures VARA License — CoinDesk","type":"news_article","url":"https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2025/02/19/defi-platform-mantra-secures-dubai-license-expanding-global-reach"}]},{"content":"The OM token's price trajectory in the period leading up to the collapse was extraordinarily steep. From early 2024 through February 2025, the token rose from well under $1.00 to an all-time high of approximately $9.00 on approximately February 23, 2025, representing a gain of over 3,000% on a year-over-year basis. The rapid appreciation prompted debate among analysts as to whether it reflected genuine demand or artificial support. On April 13, 2025, OM fell from approximately $6.30 to under $0.50 within approximately one hour during a low-liquidity trading window. Despite subsequent token burns and the $25 million buyback program, the token did not recover to pre-crash levels. By December 2025, the OM token had extended its total losses from the February 2025 all-time high to approximately 99%, trading at approximately $0.0134. A token migration and rebranding to the ticker MANTRA at a 1:4 ratio was announced and supported by major exchanges including Binance, Upbit, and Bithumb.","heading":"Price History and Market Context","severity":"critical","sources":[{"credibility":2,"name":"Mantra's OM extends 2025 loss to 99% - Why the team blames OKX — AMBCrypto","type":"news_article","url":"https://ambcrypto.com/mantras-om-extends-2025-loss-to-99-why-the-team-blames-okx/"},{"credibility":2,"name":"MANTRA Price Today — CoinGecko","type":"on_chain","url":"https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/mantra"},{"credibility":2,"name":"MANTRA Chain Token Migration and Rebranding — Binance/CryptoRank","type":"news_article","url":"https://cryptorank.io/news/feed/5de60-binance-mantra-token-swap-rebranding"}]}],"sources_used":[{"credibility":1,"name":"Mantra's OM Crashes 90% in Bizarre Sell-Off as Team Alleges 'Forced Liquidations' — 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Airdrop Rigged? On-Chain Sleuth Exposes Suspicious $OM Token Movements — Blocmates","type":"news_article","url":"https://www.blocmates.com/news-posts/is-mantra-s-airdrop-rigged-on-chain-sleuth-exposes-suspicious-om-token-movements"},{"credibility":2,"name":"MANTRA Chain Token Migration and Rebranding — CryptoRank","type":"news_article","url":"https://cryptorank.io/news/feed/5de60-binance-mantra-token-swap-rebranding"},{"credibility":2,"name":"MANTRA Price Today — CoinGecko","type":"on_chain","url":"https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/mantra"}],"summary":"MANTRA is a Cosmos SDK-based Layer 1 blockchain focused on real-world asset (RWA) tokenization, co-founded by John Patrick Mullin. Its native OM token collapsed approximately 90% in roughly one hour on April 13, 2025, falling from around $6.30 to under $0.50 and wiping out an estimated $5–6 billion in market capitalization. The causes remain disputed: the project team attributed the crash to reckless forced liquidations by centralized exchanges, while on-chain analysts, OKX, and critics alleged coordinated insider selling, supply manipulation, and artificially inflated liquidity metrics.","timeline":[{"date":"2024-03-19","event":"MANTRA Chain raises $11 million in a funding round led by Shorooq Partners, targeting real-world asset tokenization.","source":"CoinDesk","source_url":"https://www.coindesk.com/business/2024/03/19/mantra-chain-raises-11m-for-rwa-tokenization-with-middle-east-tint"},{"date":"2024-05-23","event":"Laser Digital, the digital assets arm of Nomura Group, announces a strategic investment in MANTRA; financial terms undisclosed.","source":"Chainwire / The Defiant","source_url":"https://chainwire.org/2024/05/23/mantra-secures-strategic-investment-from-nomuras-laser-digital-to-accelerate-rwa-tokenization-initiatives-in-the-middle-east-and-asia/"},{"date":"2024-10-01","event":"MANTRA mainnet launches. Total OM supply is approximately doubled from ~888 million to ~1.77–1.82 billion tokens; tokenomics shift to inflationary model with ~3% annual inflation rate.","source":"Multiple crypto outlets / Koinly","source_url":"https://koinly.io/blog/mantra-crypto/"},{"date":"2025-02-19","event":"MANTRA Finance FZE secures a VASP license from Dubai's VARA, becoming the first DeFi platform to obtain this license.","source":"CoinDesk","source_url":"https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2025/02/19/defi-platform-mantra-secures-dubai-license-expanding-global-reach"},{"date":"2025-02-23","event":"OM token reaches an all-time high of approximately $9.00, representing gains of over 3,000% year-over-year.","source":"CoinGecko / AMBCrypto","source_url":"https://ambcrypto.com/mantras-om-extends-2025-loss-to-99-why-the-team-blames-okx/"},{"date":"2025-04-03","event":"An Arkham-labeled wallet allegedly linked to Laser Digital begins a series of transfers of approximately 2.2 million OM tokens to Binance.","source":"CoinDesk / CoinTelegraph","source_url":"https://www.coindesk.com/business/2025/04/14/nomura-s-laser-digital-denies-involvement-in-mantra-crash"},{"date":"2025-04-11","event":"A second Arkham-labeled wallet allegedly linked to Laser Digital sends approximately 6.5 million OM tokens to OKX in seven transactions.","source":"CoinDesk","source_url":"https://www.coindesk.com/business/2025/04/14/nomura-s-laser-digital-denies-involvement-in-mantra-crash"},{"date":"2025-04-13","event":"OM token collapses approximately 90–92% within roughly one hour, falling from approximately $6.14–$6.32 to $0.40–$0.57, wiping out an estimated $5–6 billion in market capitalization. 17 wallets had deposited 43.6 million OM ($227 million) to exchanges in preceding days.","source":"CoinDesk / CoinTelegraph / The Block","source_url":"https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2025/04/14/mantra-s-om-crashes-90-in-bizarre-selloff-as-team-alleges-forced-liquidations"},{"date":"2025-04-14","event":"Co-founder JP Mullin attributes crash to 'reckless forced closures' by centralized exchanges. Laser Digital publicly denies involvement in the crash. OKX founder Star Xu calls it 'a big scandal.'","source":"CoinDesk / The Block","source_url":"https://www.coindesk.com/business/2025/04/14/nomura-s-laser-digital-denies-involvement-in-mantra-crash"},{"date":"2025-04-16","event":"Mullin publicly pledges to burn his entire team token allocation, stating he wants to 'rebuild trust.'","source":"Decrypt","source_url":"https://decrypt.co/315077/mantra-ceo-pledges-to-burn-his-team-tokens-after-major-90-om-crash"},{"date":"2025-04-22","event":"MANTRA announces formal 300 million OM token burn plan: 150 million from Mullin's personal allocation plus 150 million from ecosystem partners and DAO treasury. Unstaking period set to complete April 29, 2025.","source":"CoinDesk","source_url":"https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2025/04/22/mantra-to-burn-160m-om-tokens-50-from-daos-founder-following-90-price-crash"},{"date":"2025-08-27","event":"MANTRA announces a minimum $25 million token buyback program, targeting approximately 110 million OM tokens (~10% of circulating supply). Combined with a $20 million Inveniam investment, total stated recovery commitments reach $45 million.","source":"PR Newswire / CryptoTimes","source_url":"https://www.prnewswire.com/in/news-releases/mantra-announces-additional-25-000-000-minimum-funding-commitment-for-first-of-strategic-om-token-buybacks-302540263.html"},{"date":"2025-12-01","event":"OKX publicly states that 'multiple litigations and legal proceedings' involving MANTRA remain active. OKX reiterates its allegation that colluding accounts used OM as collateral to borrow USDT and artificially inflate OM's price. OM has by this date extended its 2025 losses to approximately 99% from the February peak.","source":"Protos / OKX via X","source_url":"https://protos.com/okx-says-multiple-litigations-involving-mantra-underway/"}]},"v":1}

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