Moonbeam just halted all user transactions, leaving late GLMR holders at mercy of an email helpdesk to recover funds

Moonbeam's standard GLMR migration window closed last night at 23:59 UTC (July 31), as its Polkadot network moved into an operational wind-down ahead of a relaunch on Base.The cutoff ended the standard route for self-custodied free balances, while exchange holdings, frozen balances, and protocol positions remained subject to separate handling.The official migration locked GLMR on Moonbeam and released the same amount from a reserve minted in advance on Base, sending tokens to the same user address at a 1:1 rate.At 20:20 UTC on July 31, less than four hours before the cutoff, the migration contract held about 308.183 million GLMR. Total issuance was about 1.241 billion GLMR, putting direct-bridge uptake at 24.83% at that timestamp.The remaining 75.17% covers a mix of free holdings, exchange custody, staking, treasury, and other balance categories. Exchange processing and snapshot-covered locked balances followed separate routes, so the contract ratio cannot measure stranded or at-risk supply.How the cutoff affected GLMR holdersBefore the deadline, Moonbeam told users to withdraw funds from liquidity pools, lending markets, staking, crowdloans, governance locks, and other protocols w...