Mezo

Supernormal Foundation introduced VezoExchange (@VezoExchange), a community-built marketplace where holders can buy or sell locked veBTC and veMEZO positions on Mezo, represented as veNFTs. Mezo's official account amplified the announcement.

• Vezo is escrowless — the veNFT stays in the seller's wallet, still voting and earning, until a single atomic transaction settles the sale; listings are priced in BTC, MEZO or MUSD.
• Buyers can acquire positions below intrinsic value, taking on the lock and its voting power and rewards; the marketplace charges a 1% fee at settlement.
• Vezo says its contracts were audited by the Mezo team before launch and that it is supported by the Supernormal Foundation.

An attacker exploited a flaw in Mezo's veBTC vote-escrow contract on October 5, 2026, moving 37 veBTC positions out of 36 holders' wallets and bridging roughly 5.52 BTC off the Mezo chain. Mezo says the vulnerability has been fixed, funds are at no further risk, and all affected users will be made whole from protocol-owned sources.

• The exploit abused the interaction between the contract's trusted meta-transaction forwarder and external Solidity libraries, letting the attacker impersonate the sender of a safeTransferFrom call; they targeted unlocked-but-unredeemed positions so proceeds could be redeemed and bridged out.
• Mezo paused bridge withdrawals within 33 minutes, halted all chain transactions the same morning, and re-enabled everything after the fix; SEAL 911, exchanges and law enforcement were notified.
• A review found three other functions with more constrained access-control exposure, all covered by the same fix; the vulnerability was never reported via the Cantina bug bounty program.
• Reimbursed BTC will be sent directly to affected wallets — Mezo warns users not to follow any links promising recovery.

The Supernormal Foundation has announced the Mezo Founder Program, an open call for teams bringing working products to Mezo and putting MUSD and MEZO to use. The announcement frames it around a core BitcoinFi premise — "No one wants to spend their BTC" — urging teams to build applications that make BTC usable for everyday finance.

• Mezo's official account amplified the call, with the Foundation detailing what it is looking for in a follow-up thread.
• The program targets projects that already have working products rather than early-stage ideas.
• It follows the Foundation's existing Alpha Builder and grant initiatives for Mezo ecosystem builders.

Registration is open for the Mezo Buildathon, run with akindo.io and the Supernormal Foundation, taking place Oct 16–Nov 15, 2026. Teams build new uses for MUSD and MEZO across two tracks — DeFi and Access & Distribution — competing for $7,000 in MEZO prizes split across two waves.

• Wave 1 (Oct 16–26): submissions due Oct 26 for $2,000 in MEZO prizes; pre-register by Oct 15 to start from Wave 1.
• Wave 2 (Nov 2–15): eligible projects advance for another round, with final submissions due Nov 15 for $5,000 in prizes.
• Both brand-new projects and extensions of existing products are welcome.

Mezo has added the Ditto MUSD Savings Vault to Mezo Earn, giving MUSD holders another way to put their holdings to work. The vault's initial allocation is directed into Spark Savings by Spark Finance, which says the launch expands its savings product to new distribution channels.

Mezo is winding down bridge support for low-activity ERC-20 tokens, meaning the Mezo chain bridge will no longer be available for them. Affected tokens so far are swBTC (Swell BTC), USDe (Ethena USDe), and now solvBTC and xsolvBTC (Solv Protocol BTC and Staked BTC).

• Bridge-in (deposits) for solvBTC/xsolvBTC is suspended immediately; bridge-out (withdrawals) ends in 30 days.
• Mezo cites minimal activity as the reason and urges holders to bridge funds out before support is fully deprecated.

Mezo is winding down its BTC Vault (mbhBTC). Deposits are closed, and users must withdraw by October 28, 2026; the team warns that withdrawals are queued and take roughly 48 hours to process, so users should start early.

• The wind-down also applies to positions that were moved from the cbBTC Vault into the BTC Vault.
• Users still trying to withdraw after the deadline are directed to Mellow support.
• Withdrawal instructions and wind-down details are available via Mezo's announcement.

Aurove (@aurove_xyz) is now live on the Mezo mainnet, letting veBTC and veMEZO holders put their locked positions to use for swaps and liquidity. The launch was announced via the Supernormal Foundation (@SupernormalFDN).

Mezo has activated veMEZO voting, letting veMEZO holders decide where MEZO token incentives are directed. The gauge system is now live: as of writing, roughly 200,000 MEZO per epoch is allocated by vote rather than by the Foundation.

• veMEZO holders can direct MEZO incentives to MUSD pools on Curve, Uniswap and Aerodrome.
• The team says more MEZO token utility features are in development.

Mezo is inviting veBTC holders to vote on its new validator gauges, alongside existing pool gauges on the Mezo L2. Roughly $800 in incentives from MatchboxMarkets are on offer for participation, with votes needing to be cast before the epoch flips.

For the epoch starting Sept 10, the Supernormal Foundation (@SupernormalFDN) outlined how it plans to vote on the gauges, signaling coordinated veBTC participation in Mezo's gauge governance round.