TREE NEWS update: Bitget detected abnormal transfers from some of its hot wallets at 2:31 a.m. and immediately activated an emergency response, with preliminary estimates putting the amount involved at about $351.6 million. The exchange said cold wallets and the vast majority of assets were unaffected and that losses are fully covered by its user protection fund, which now exceeds $464 million. Withdrawals have been temporarily suspended, while deposits and trading remain operational, and law enforcement and on-chain security firms have been notified.
Bitget reports abnormal hot wallet transfers totaling about $351.6M
AI take
The scale of a hot-wallet breach at a major exchange matters less for the headline number than for what it says about operational security and the credibility of backstops. Bitget's ability to point to a protection fund larger than the estimated loss is the key detail here, since it shifts the immediate question from solvency to reimbursement mechanics. The open questions are whether withdrawals resume without further incident, whether the fund is tapped in practice rather than only in principle, and what the on-chain investigation attributes the transfers to.
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