Mezo

Mezo's official account amplified Supernormal Foundation's announcement of Mezo Tools, a community-built dashboard for tracking Mezo positions. The tool lets users check their assets, MUSD borrowing positions and liquidity pools in one place.

• The Supernormal Foundation introduced the dashboard in a thread outlining what users can check.
• Mezo reposted the announcement, backing the community-built tool with its official channel.

Wave 1 of the Mezo Buildathon has closed, with 119 teams spending the past 10 days building on MUSD and MEZO for a share of $2,000 in MEZO. The event was supported by @akindo_io and the Supernormal Foundation.

• A jury is now reviewing every Wave 1 submission to pick the winners.
• Wave 2 runs November 2–15 with another $5,000 in MEZO in prizes; registration remains open.

MEZO Gauges are updated and ready ahead of the Aerodrome/Velodrome merger into Aero, which launches Oct 22, 2026 at 00:00 UTC. Mezo confirmed the gauges in a post on October 21, telling veMEZO holders to keep voting on Mezo as usual — gauges stay in the same place, but the supported Aerodrome pools are changing with the transition.

• USDC/MUSD and MEZO/MUSD LP positions on Aerodrome should be migrated through the Aero Upgrade Portal once Aero goes live.
• The Aero launch merges Aerodrome and Velodrome into a single unified DEX, ending emissions from both legacy platforms at launch.

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.