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Cetus Protocol suffered a major exploit on May 22, 2025, with reports estimating about USD 223 million to USD 260 million drained from Sui/Aptos liquidity pools and more than USD 160 million of assets later frozen or recovered through the Sui ecosystem response.
The announced eXch shutdown date was May 1, 2025, marking the terminal date used by HEI for the exchange entity.
KUNA's closure roadmap set April 30, 2025 as the complete cessation date for the platform after earlier deposit, exchange, and withdrawal deadlines.
Authorities stated that the seizure action shut down the eXch platform before the operators' announced 2025-05-01 closure date.
The Frankfurt public prosecutor's cybercrime unit and the BKA seized the Germany-based server infrastructure of eXch and confiscated cryptocurrency assets, with support from the Dutch FIOD.
eXch announced that it would cease operations on May 1, 2025, describing a management decision to cease and retreat in the hostile legal and surveillance environment.
eXch said it had become the target of an active transatlantic operation amid allegations that Lazarus Group used the platform to launder funds from the Bybit hack; earlier reporting said eXch denied being a mixer but acknowledged processing a small portion of funds from the incident.
ApeX removed the remaining Pro trading liquidity and disabled Pro deposit functions as users were directed to migrate to ApeX Omni.
KiloEx paused operations / trading for roughly ten days while preparing recovery and compensation measures after the oracle-manipulation attack.
KiloEx suffered an approximately USD 7 million price-oracle manipulation exploit across multiple chains, including Base, BNB Chain, and Taiko exposure.
Public closure text stated Mercatox would cease responding to user inquiries on 2025-04-01.
OKX temporarily suspended its decentralized exchange aggregator after consulting regulators, citing efforts to prevent further misuse by Lazarus-linked activity and to apply security upgrades during heightened EU/MiCA scrutiny of its Web3 service.
DMM Bitcoin service ended on March 8, 2025 after customer assets and accounts were transferred to SBI VC Trade.
Garantex suspended services after Tether blocked wallets on the platform, with international enforcement activity and web-infrastructure seizure following in the same period.
The SEC filed to dismiss its civil enforcement action against Coinbase in February 2025, ending the lawsuit that began in 2023.
Bybit suffered a record-scale Ethereum wallet hack in February 2025, with reports estimating about USD 1.4-1.5 billion stolen from a cold-wallet transfer/signing process while the exchange continued operating globally.
Mango's official shutdown update set February 3, 2025 as the final closure date and asked users to close positions before that time.
Public exchange-status sources stated that Mercatox had closed down operations and would cease responding to user inquiries on 2025-04-01.
B2BX Digital Exchange OÜ's Estonian virtual-asset-service license ended after the company renounced it during a supervisory proceeding.
KUNA's founder announced that the exchange would wind down commercial operations after domestic blocking connected to Ukrainian enforcement and court action.
Peken Global Ltd, operating as KuCoin, pleaded guilty to operating an unlicensed money-transmitting business, agreed to more than $297 million in fines and forfeiture, and accepted a two-year exit from the U.S. market.
Phemex suspended deposits and withdrawals across chains as an emergency response to the hot-wallet incident, then resumed chains and assets in staged updates.
Phemex detected unusual activity in its hot wallet and described the incident as a hacker attack, isolating affected devices and contacting security firms and law enforcement.
Reuters and WSJ reported that BitMEX was fined $100 million by a U.S. judge after the company pleaded guilty to a Bank Secrecy Act-related charge over anti-money-laundering failures.
Governance proposals tied to the wind-down became executable on January 13, 2025, effectively ending core borrowing/lending/trading viability on Mango v4 / Boost.