A validator reward failure on Core DAO triggers exchange transfer blocks and leaves token issuance in question

Core DAO validator rewards exceeded the protocol's intended levels for a small group of validators, the project said, creating an unresolved supply question for the CORE token as two exchanges restricted transfers.Core DAO said it had identified the root cause and was working on mitigations. It said user assets were safe. It described the incident as limited to reward issuance and said network security and custody were unaffected. Core did not disclose the amount of excess CORE, the validators or reward rounds involved, or the technical cause. It promised a postmortem after the issue is contained.The missing amount is central because Core DAO validator rewards normally include newly minted tokens. The disclosure leaves unresolved whether the anomaly accelerated rewards already scheduled for later distribution or added issuance outside the project's planned path.Coinbase opened its Core DAO incident at 04:41 UTC on Aug. 31, before Core's 05:24 UTC public statement. At 17:38 UTC, the exchange's status feed still listed the incident as investigating, with CORE sends and receives paused. Coinbase said buys, sells, conversions and fiat transactions were unaffected. Its public status pag...