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Deribit Crypto Exchange Sees $28M Exploit, Halts Withdrawals

Umair Younas by Umair Younas
November 2, 2022 - 3:07 pm
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The top exchange for Bitcoin (BTC), Deribit, witnessed a loss of up to $28M in an exploit. The platform additionally stopped withdrawals. The hot wallet of the crypto exchange got compromised. Nonetheless, the funds of the consumers are safe and the platform has utilized its reserves to cover the loss, as shared by the company on its official Twitter account.

Deribit Goes through a $28M Exploit and Halts Withdrawals

The firm noted that the hacker targeted their hot wallet to take away nearly 28 million worth of USD on the 1st of November this year. As per the venue, it is keenly observing the present security checks as well as has terminated the withdrawals temporarily, taking into account the withdrawals requested from 3rd-party custodians such as Cobo, Clearloop, and Copper.

The respective halt is to remain implemented until the platform ensures that it is safe for the firm to resume them. Nonetheless, it has not been clear up till now when will the platform be likely able to restart the service. Keeping in mind the statement of the venue that the funds of the users are currently unaffected, it appears that the insurance fund of Deribit will not have any influence because of the hack.

While discussing the deposits which have in advance been sent require to go through a procedure. They will be approved following the mandatory confirmations. The platform will eventually credit them to the respective accounts, as per the Twitter thread. The exchange elaborated on it by disclosing that it has collected the least confirmations currently due to which a delay is occurring in funds’ crediting. It further recommended that consumers should not send any new deposits till the services are restarted.

Deribit hot wallet compromised, but client funds are safe and loss is covered by company reserves

Our hot wallet was hacked for USD 28m earlier this evening just before midnight UTC on 1 November 2022.

— Deribit (@DeribitExchange) November 2, 2022

According to the claims made by Deribit, the firm stores the funds of almost ninety-nine percent of its clients in its cold storage wallets. It has been fortunate for the exchange that the exploiter got access to the hot wallet thereof rather than reaching out to the cold ones. The company has emphasized that its status is still resilient in terms of finance. It added that the activities done by the exchange will not be affected by the recent hack.

Binance CEO, Chanpeng Zhao, has also tweeted about this hack. His tweet suggests that Deribit has contacted Binance to freeze any funds transferred by the hackers.

Asked our team to monitor and help freeze any funds that come to @Binance. Stay #SAFU. 🙏 https://t.co/QkD0wQs77e

— CZ 🔶 Binance (@cz_binance) November 2, 2022

Crypto Exchange Occupies a Major Proportion of Options Markets of ETH and BTC

As per the data offered on the behalf of Coinglass (a venue offering data about the derivatives), the position of Deribit is strong in the field of crypto options. The derivatives exchange, having its basis in Panama presently, contributes up to 89.76% portion of the cumulative interest in Bitcoin options. CME, another derivatives platform, stands in the 2nd position after it with just a 6.87% market share.

After that, Okex as well as FTX come at the 4th and 5th numbers among the top 5. The crypto exchange also plays a vital role in the case of the options market of Ethereum. It comprises almost 96.64% in share. Three Arrows Capital, the hedge fund that has now become default, had a stake of approximately $500 million in Deribit.

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Umair Younas is a cryptocurrency-related content writer linked with this work since 2019. Here, at Blockchainreporter, he serves as a news and article writer. He is a crypto, blockchain, NFTs, DeFi, and FinTech enthusiast. He has strong command over writing authentic reviews about brokers and exchanges and he has collaborated with our education team to write educational content as well. He has a dream to raise awareness among people about digital currencies. His works are well-researched and brimmed with information hence they provide fresh insights. Stay tuned to his posts if you want to stay up-to-date with the crypto-verse.

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