Whale reclaims $74M in ETH locked in the ENS auction

After years of leaving 39,712 Ether (ETH) locked astatine the Ethereum Name Service (ENS) auction, a whale utilizing the domain “darkmarket.eth” has reclaimed the integer assets and transferred implicit $119 cardinal successful ETH to a caller wallet. 

— Lookonchain (@lookonchain) July 31, 2023

Back successful 2021, ENS laminitis and pb developer Nick Johnson tweeted a reminder for the proprietor of the “darkmarket.eth” domain to reclaim their ETH that was locked up successful ENS deposits from its archetypal 2 years. The ENS laminitis besides provided a nexus that would let those with ETH deposited successful ENS auctions to reclaim their integer assets. 

However, contempt the reminder, the funds were reclaimed lone aft 2 years and 5 months. On July 31, on-chain analytics steadfast Lookonchain flagged that the funds were reclaimed and darkmarket.eth’s 63,734 ETH, worthy $119 cardinal astatine the clip of writing, was transferred to a antithetic wallet.

According to Johnson, determination are inactive implicit 100,000 deeds that stay unclaimed astatine ENS. The domain work developer highlighted that these are worthy tens of thousands successful ETH and urged users to cheque their ain addresses and assertion their funds.

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Meanwhile, astatine slightest 2 different dormant wallets worthy millions of dollars person woken up this month. On July 19, a wallet containing pre-mined Ether worthy $116 cardinal moved its funds to a Kraken speech address aft 8 years of leaving it alone. The wallet was worthy astir $20 cardinal astatine the clip it was pre-mined, giving the proprietor a instrumentality of much than 5 times.

On July 24, a dormant wallet moved implicit $30 cardinal successful Bitcoin (BTC) aft being near unsocial for 11 years. The code acquired the assets backmost successful April 2012 erstwhile Bitcoin was worthy lone $4.92, meaning that the stash was lone worthy $5,108 backmost then.

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