# zetachain

Urgent Security Alert: ZetaChain Transactions Halted
​The decentralized finance landscape faces another critical test today. ZetaChain has officially suspended its cross-chain transaction operations following the discovery of a significant security exploit within its GatewayZEVM contract. Preliminary investigations suggest the vulnerability originated from insufficient access control and a lack of rigorous input validation in the contract’s call function. This oversight allowed unauthorized actors to potentially bypass established security protocols, creating an immediate need for the temporar