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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.
Mango Markets announced that users should close positions and that Mango v4 / Boost were winding down, with governance proposals set to make most borrowing economically unviable.
BCM and Kraken support materials indicated that BCM clients would be migrated or directed to Kraken following the acquisition, with BCM account closure or transition communications centered on 2025-01-07.
Reuters reported that Grinex had been sanctioned by the United States, United Kingdom, and European Union in 2025, with U.S. authorities linking it to sanctions-evasion infrastructure involving the A7A5 ruble-backed stablecoin.
BL3P ended trading, deposits, and withdrawals on December 20, 2024 and began transferring remaining user balances to Bitonic accounts.
Public exchange-status sources marked Nominex as dead on 2024-12-18 after the closure announcement for its centralized exchange.
Nominex informed users by email that it was closing its centralized exchange for economic reasons and advised users to withdraw funds as soon as possible.
The Zug Cantonal Court opened bankruptcy proceedings against Lykke Corp on December 16, 2024, dissolving the company into liquidation.
Polish authorities arrested Dmitry Vasilyev, described in reporting as a former WEX head, on suspicion of fraud and money laundering tied to the exchange's operations and missing funds.
DMM Bitcoin announced an agreement to transfer customer accounts and assets to SBI VC Trade, with the transfer path replacing a restart of DMM Bitcoin's own exchange service.
Fairdesk's published wind-down schedule set 2024-11-30 as the permanent closure date after a withdrawal-only period.
The British Columbia Securities Commission issued its sanctions decision after the fraud findings, ordering financial sanctions and imposing permanent market restrictions on David Smillie and ezBtc.
After BEP-151 decommissioned the native DEX module, BNB Beacon Chain halted and stopped processing new transactions in the final sunset fork.
The official wind-down schedule said the website would be taken down after 2024-11-07 and that users should recover any remaining arbitration bond funds before that date.
The official shutdown schedule set November 7, 2024 as the final website shutdown date after earlier trade and withdrawal deadlines.
Bitonic announced that BL3P would close on December 20, 2024, citing new regulation including MiCA and a decision to focus on the Bitonic platform.