Historical Exchange IndexA quiet registry of crypto exchanges, active and gone.

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Exchange incidents

Browse reviewed exchange incidents and lifecycle disruptions linked back to entity dossiers and supporting evidence.

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Timeline events494
Affected exchanges291
Critical events283
Event-linked sources839

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Incident mix

2024

3 events on this page
Shutdown effectivecritical

Huobi Korea ended virtual-asset exchange services

Huobi Korea terminated its exchange services on 2024-01-29 after concluding that the current business environment made continued operation impractical. Customer withdrawals remained available after the shutdown.

Status effect: deadConfidence: highDirect event-linked evidence: 2

2023

22 events on this page
Exploitcritical
KyberSwapDEXactive

KyberSwap Elastic liquidity pools were affected by a security incident

A November 2023 security incident affected KyberSwap Elastic liquidity pools. KyberSwap later published a postmortem and established a treasury grant program for eligible affected users.

Status effect: limitedConfidence: highDirect event-linked evidence: 2
Hackcritical
HTXCEXactive

HTX hot wallet was affected by a cyberattack

HTX reported that a cyberattack affected assets in its hot wallet and temporarily disrupted services; withdrawal functionality was subsequently restored for major assets.

Status effect: limitedConfidence: highDirect event-linked evidence: 2
Regulatory actioncritical
BinanceCEXactive

Binance entered coordinated U.S. criminal and civil resolutions

Binance Holdings pleaded guilty to U.S. anti-money-laundering, unlicensed money-transmitting, and sanctions violations and entered coordinated resolutions with DOJ, CFTC, FinCEN, and OFAC requiring more than USD 4.3 billion in aggregate penalties and compliance remediation.

Status effect: activeConfidence: highDirect event-linked evidence: 2
Hackcritical
PoloniexCEXactive

Poloniex hot wallets were compromised

Poloniex suffered a major hot-wallet security incident involving a private-key compromise and losses reported above USD 100 million across multiple networks.

Status effect: limitedConfidence: highDirect event-linked evidence: 2
Hackhigh
CoinExCEXactive

CoinEx hot-wallet private key was compromised

CoinEx detected anomalous withdrawals from hot wallets on September 12, 2023 and later stated that the incident was caused by leakage of a hot-wallet private key.

Status effect: limitedConfidence: highDirect event-linked evidence: 2
Lawsuitcritical
ThodexCEXdead

Thodex founder convicted in fraud case

A Turkish court later convicted Thodex founder Faruk Fatih Özer and imposed a very long prison sentence in September 2023, confirming the fraud-centered nature of the exchange collapse.

Status effect: deadConfidence: highDirect event-linked evidence: 3
Shutdown effectivecritical
LiteBitCEXacquired

LiteBit transfer deadline and login shutdown

LiteBit's help center told users that assets and account information would be transferred to Bitvavo after 2023-08-14 and that logging in to LiteBit would no longer be available after that date.

Status effect: deadConfidence: highDirect event-linked evidence: 1
Shutdown effectivecritical
DassetCEXdead

Dasset entered liquidation

Digital Asset Exchange Limited, trading as Dasset, entered liquidation on 2023-08-14 after customers had been unable to access funds and the company had been unable to secure replacement banking services.

Status effect: deadConfidence: highDirect event-linked evidence: 4
Regulatory actionmedium
CoinExCEXactive

CoinEx agreed to New York ban and monetary settlement

CoinEx agreed to pay about $1.8 million and be banned from operating in New York to resolve a lawsuit brought by the New York Attorney General alleging illegal unregistered operations in the state.

Status effect: activeConfidence: highDirect event-linked evidence: 2
Withdrawals suspendedcritical
BKEXCEXinactive

BKEX suspended withdrawals amid police investigation

BKEX suspended withdrawals after stating that some platform user funds were involved in money laundering and that it was cooperating with police to collect evidence.

Status effect: limitedConfidence: highDirect event-linked evidence: 5