After 8 years, we are winding down Opulous. This is an extremely hard tweet to write as I know how many people have spent not just money but time and energy on Opulous including of course the team, but more importantly the community members who we have worked so hard for. 1/ First, what actually happened. Opulous was not hacked. Our platform and staking contracts were never compromised. The failure happened entirely within Messina’s bridge infrastructure, a provider we trusted to manage cross-chain transfers, and who failed to carry out even a basic audit on their product. 2/ Their relay contract was exploited using forged bridge messages, releasing hundreds of millions of OPUL from escrow with nothing locked on the source chain. In simple terms: the attacker printed more than 2x the total token supply out of thin air and sold it. Messina have still not made a single public statement taking accountability for this. 3/ From the moment it happened, our thoughts were always with the community. We launched a full forensic investigation across every chain, traced every wallet, contacted every major exchange, engaged blockchain forensic firms, filed police reports and reached out to international police departments across multiple jurisdictions. We tried everything within our power. 4/ While other teams may have quickly sold their tokens, that was never our focus. The hack drained our current market making reserves as we tried to hold the price, and but we continued to support with personal funds because we knew what a collapsing token meant for the people holding it. I have personally helped to fund operations across 8 years, never took a salary, never sold a token. Every call we made under pressure was made with the community in mind. 5/ We looked at every possible path forward. A token migration was not viable. The inflated supply, more than 2x what should exist, is still circulating and cannot be frozen or recalled. Even if we launched a new token, no exchange would list it while the original continues to trade and the attacker still holds an inflated supply they can dump at any time. Without exchange support there is no liquidity, and without liquidity there is no market. On top of that, a relaunch announcement in crypto attracts bad actors looking to pump and dump. The community would simply be exposed to being hurt a second time. 6/ Every token I hold including my team allocation and the tokens I personally bought over the years and chose never to sell, even when I easily could have, will be sent to a permanently locked wallet. Not a single token from my side will ever reach the market. 7/ For OVAULT depositors: your funds are safe. USDC has already been airdropped directly to your wallets so check your wallet now, nothing more is needed. For MFT holders who purchased: we have liquidated the music catalog and proceeds are available as a USDC payout through the Rewards panel. For airdropped MFT holders: your MFTs remain onchain as collectibles but rewards distribution will stop. If you have unclaimed rewards, make sure you collect them before April 30. All claims must be made before April 30, 2026. After that date the platform goes offline. 8/ I can being to explain my frustrations for our community during this whole process. Crypto needs to change. Hacks have become a daily occurrence, but the market is so unregulated that governing authorities don’t even treat it as a crime. You can steal millions of dollars, more than double a project’s token supply, and face no meaningful consequence. We contacted the police and international police departments across multiple jurisdictions and there was zero interest in finding the criminals. This is not acceptable and it cannot keep being the norm. 9/ To everyone in the Opulous community, thank you. You were not just holders. You were part of everything we built. I wish more than anything that we could have carried on building and given this the outcome you put so much into. I am truly sorry we were robbed of that chance. Lee