CoinDCX confirmed the same and added that no customer funds were impacted in the breach. All trading activity and INR withdrawals continue to be fully operational.
The court has also set aside its previous order from June 4 that had dismissed WazirX’s proposed restructuring scheme.
The long-awaited restructuring plan’s approval was critical to allow rebalancing of tokens that would have enabled impacted users to recover up to 85 percent of the value of tokens lost in the initial phase.
Those who in favour of the proposed restructuring of WazirX accounted for 94.6 percent of the assets on the exchange, in terms of value.
“We wrote to over 500 exchanges in the first two weeks after the attack, asking for help and asking for freezing,” Shetty said told Moneycontrol.
Binance is assisting WazirX track their stolen funds, head of regional markets Vishal Sacheendran has said
The exchange expects the subsequent distributions to happen over the next three years as “more assets are realized from Illiquid Asset recoveries, including the Stolen Tokens, as well as from available shared profits generated through future operations.”
Sacheendran also shared that while the talks for bailing out hacked exchange WazirX are still on, a takeover by Binance is unlikely
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At present, CoinSwitch is also pursuing legal action against WazirX to recover 2 percent of its funds that are stuck with WazirX, cumulatively amounting to Rs 12.4 crore in INR.
The application filed on December 6 outlined a structured roadmap for recovery, and if approved, will include initial distributions of available liquid assets within 10 Business Days (as defined in the proposed Scheme).
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Users' investments, ranging from Rs 20,000 to Rs 1.5 crore, have been stuck with the exchange for months. While Bitbns is allowing deposits and trading on the platform, users have been unable to withdraw their funds. Bitbns CEO Gaurav Dahake said that arbitrary freezes on bank accounts by LEAs has impacted its ability to process user withdrawals.
Nischal Shetty, founder and CEO of WazirX said he is expecting to restart the exchange platform by February 2025.
Sumit Gupta, Co-Founder, CoinDCX told Moneycontrol, that the users would have full control of the private key of the decentralised wallet that will be encrypted using user's email id authentication.
WazirX had last reported its POR in June when the total holdings stood at Rs 4,203.88 crore, which has now fallen to Rs 2,506.79 crore post the hack.
CoinSwitch cofounder Ashish Singhal claims that his platform identified the transfer of $72.13 million worth of crypto to Bybit and $1.5 million to KuCoin, originating from WazirX.
WazirX said the committee, which will have 10 users affected by the July cyberattack as its members, is aimed at giving a fair representation to such customers in the business restructuring process
The moratorium, which comes with some conditions, will allow WazirX to help it restructure its business after the $230-million hack
Never owned, controlled or operated WazirX during or after hack: Binance said in a statement
Hacked crypto exchange WazirX’s restructuring plans depend on the resolution of the muddled ownership dispute with Binance.
The perpetrator on September 2 moved 2,500 Ether tokens worth about $6.3 million to Tornado Cash — a sanctioned service that blurs the origin of cryptoassets.
WazirX’s users are unlikely to get full recovery of their crypto portfolio immediately after restructuring. The exchange is also exploring additional options to return more funds to the users.
“Three NDAs have been signed to date with prominent cryptocurrency exchanges with user bases in the range of 12 – 100 million users and between around $5 million and approximately $1.5 billion in daily trade volume,” CEO Nischal Shetty said.