Neutron voters passed proposal #9 on Sept. 22, titled "AIATO: AI Agent Takeover. Phase 1: Agent Admin Registration," with the chain explorer listing 11 "Update Admin" actions. On the same day, security tracker SlowMist recorded estimated losses of $4.9 million at Astroport and $4.4 million at Drop, for a combined $9.3 million. Neutron’s governance documentation describes its DAO (decentralized autonomous organization) as the network’s highest governing authority, with power to execute messages through governance. The proposal illustrates how network governance can change a contract administrator even when users view Astroport and Drop as separate services. Protos reported on Sept. 23 that network halts had stranded most initially affected assets and that the attacker had extracted around one-fifth of them at that time. The final recoverable amount remains unsettled because it depends on which assets stayed contained, were restored, or left defenders’ reach. The material also states that audited DeFi (decentralized finance) protocols lost $885 million to attacks occurring entirely outside their audit scopes.