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ZachXBT Urges Users to Withdraw Funds from CoinDCX After $16M Theft

Blockchain investigator ZachXBT urged users to withdraw all funds from Indian crypto exchange CoinDCX, accusing its co-founders of denying an asset theft before later disclosing a roughly $16 million loss. He said the exchange failed to promptly and transparently inform the public, called the co-founders “a bunch of clowns” running the exchange like a circus, and noted this is not CoinDCX’s first such incident, also criticizing Indian centralized exchanges WazirX and BitBNS.

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The significance here is less the $16 million loss than the credibility problem it exposes: an investigator with a public following directly contradicting an exchange's account of disclosure timing. That shifts the risk narrative from a one-off breach to a pattern, and ZachXBT's decision to name WazirX and BitBNS alongside CoinDCX frames it as an Indian centralized-exchange issue rather than a single-platform one. The constituency most exposed is retail users on those venues, who rely on founder statements as their main transparency signal. Worth watching is whether CoinDCX offers a detailed timeline rebuttal, and whether other investigators corroborate or dispute the disclosure-gap claim.

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