Pause > 7 consecutive days
Axelar Network's assessment for RD-F-087 — scored yellow on the v1.7.0 rubric. The evidence below is the curator's reasoning for this score.
Evidence summary #
Axelar's Cosmos chain (axelar-dojo-1) undergoes governance-coordinated upgrade halts inherent to Cosmos SDK appchains. These are planned operational events, not exploits. No confirmed >7-consecutive-day halt found in last 12 months; however, axelarscan.io block explorer returned non-parseable response for block timestamp lookup, so precise halt durations cannot be confirmed from on-chain data. Scored yellow conservatively: liveness is a known risk axis for this architecture (2024 disclosure demonstrated forced-deregistration-triggered halt vector; that vector resolved but halt risk remains structural), and halt duration data is unconfirmed.
Sources #
- DocsAxelar Mainnet Upgrade v0.34 — Axelar DocsAxelar mainnet upgrade docs — confirms planned upgrade halts as normal Cosmos operationsretrieved 2026-05-17
- Halting Cross-chain: Axelar Network Vulnerability Disclosure — Marco HextorVulnerability disclosure showing that forced validator deregistration could halt EVM cross-chain operations — liveness risk axis confirmedretrieved 2026-05-17
Methodology #
Determine whether the protocol has been paused for more than 7 consecutive days at any point in the last 12 months.
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