Btcturk, one of Türkiye’s biggest cryptocurrency exchanges, announced today that an unusual movement has been detected in its hot wallet.
The company announced that as a precaution, it will temporarily suspend cryptocurrency deposits and withdrawals, and that transactions will resume once work is complete.
Btcturk’s statement argued that the majority of user assets are kept in secure cold wallets and are not affected by this situation. According to the statement, Turkish lira deposits and withdrawals continue uninterrupted.
Data on the chain shows that around millions of dollars of digital assets have been exchanged from the initial hacker address and moved to two main addresses. The first address had $19.4 million in assets, while the second held $22.6 million.
The assets distribution at the first address is as follows:
Ethereum Network – ETH: 3,489.82 units – $15.9 million (81.62%)
Avalanche Network – Avax: 81,127.66 units – $192 million (9.85%)
Arbitrum Network – ETH: 204.95 units – $933,000 (4.79%)
Base Network – ETH: 47.29 units – $215,000 (1.11%)
Optimism Network – ETH: 37.90 units – $172,000 (0.89%)
ZKSYNC Network – ZK: 1.82 million units – $116,000 (0.60%)
Mantle Network – MNT: 94,293 units – $103,000 (0.53%)
Polygon Network – POL: 289,333 units – $68,000 (0.35%)
Moon Beam Network – GLMR: 645,209 units – $48,000 (0.25%)
The assets distribution at the second address is as follows:
- Ethereum Network – ETH: 3,845.16 units – $1753 million (77.30%)
- Avalanche Network – Avax: 86,550 units – $2.04 million (9.03%)
- Optimism Network – ETH: 221.15 units – $1.00 million (4.44%)
- Arbitrum Network – ETH: 190.66 units – $869,000 (3.83%)
- Base Network – ETH: 126.17 units – $575,000 (2.54%)
- Moon Beam Network – GLMR: 5.26 million units – $395,000 (1.74%)
- Mantle Network – MNT: 225,770 units – $248,000 (1.09%)
- ZKSYNC Network – ETH: 0.83 units – $3,813 (0.02%)
*This is not investment advice.
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