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Pause activations (trailing 12 months)

Wormhole's assessment for RD-F-086 — scored gray on the v1.7.0 rubric. The evidence below is the curator's reasoning for this score.

Evidence summary #

- Finding: The bridge was taken offline following the Feb 2022 exploit (downtime ~18.5 hours). No other confirmed pause events in the trailing 12 months (Apr 2025–Apr 2026) were found via web search. The protocol does not appear to have a traditional on-chain pause mechanism in the OZ Pausable sense — guardian disconnection is the functional equivalent for cross-chain messaging. Scroll deprecation (Apr 21, 2026) involved guardian disconnection but was a planned lifecycle action, not an emerge...

Sources #

  • Curator note
    Extracted from 05-ops-history.md — RD-F-086; no URL cited in originalretrieved 2026-04-28

Methodology #

Count the number of deliberate pause activations with documented reason in the trailing 12 months.

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rubric_version v1.7.0 protocol wormhole factor RD-F-086 score gray collected_at 2026-04-28 01:38:43