Mint Blockchain shuts down operations, urges users to withdraw assets to Ethereum before October 20 deadline or risk permanent loss

$42K TVL at shutdown per L2BEAT, down 93.5% from peak, with state updates already stalled 10+ days before this announcement. Because Mint never reached Stage 0, there's no trustless force-exit path once the operator pulls the plug — miss October 20 and assets are stranded behind a bridge with no one running the L2 side. OP Stack made spinning up an NFT-themed L2 trivial; keeping one economically viable was always the hard part, and the graveyard is getting crowded.

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