Lost coins found! Arkham: Millions of dollars of cryptocurrency forgotten in cross-chain bridge

This site (120bTC.coM): Arkham Intelligence, an on-chain data analysis platform, said it found that millions of dollars worth of cryptocurrencies have been "left behind" or "forgotten" in major In the cross-chain bridge contract, no one claims it.

Arkham published an article in the early morning of this morning (23rd): There are dozens of accounts leaving at least 6 to 7 figures worth of cryptocurrency in cross-chain contracts. These assets have obviously been forgotten. If you're on this list, you've probably lost millions of dollars.

As for the owners of these "forgotten wealth", some of them are also names well-known in the currency community, including Vitalik Buterin, co-founder of Ethereum, cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase, and multiple DeFi whale related wallet.

Arkham pointed out that one of the wallets had received 50 ether coins sent by Vitalik Buterin, but the wallet still has 1.05 million US dollars on the Optimism cross-chain bridge, and it has exceeded 7 so far. The company did not forget to shout to "V God": Vitalik, if you own this address, you still have 1 million US dollars in Ethereum on the Optimism cross-chain bridge.

In addition, another wallet associated with Bofur Capital (the same name as Celsius creditor) even has as much as $1.8 million in WBTC left on the Arbitrum cross-chain bridge, which has not been moved for 27 months, According to Arkham data, the address holds assets worth more than $14 million.

At the same time, Arrow founder Thomasg.eth seems to have forgotten US$800,000 in Ethereum on the Arbitrum cross-chain bridge, and it has still not been retrieved after two years.

Arkham also noticed that Coinbase tried to transfer $75,000 USDC to Ethereum through the Optimism cross-chain bridge about half a year ago, but the funds are still lying on the base layer of Ethereum. was collected.

Different from cross-chain protocols such as Across and Hop (users can automatically receive funds on another chain), most native cross-chain bridges require users to withdraw funds manually. If they forget to withdraw funds, The smart contract will not alert them, but it is possible that the owners of these wallets have chosen to temporarily store funds there for some reason.

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