Justin Solar says HTX and Poloniex will supply ‘epic airdrop’ following trade hacks

Justin Sun, a prime consultant for the crypto exchanges HTX and Poloniex, introduced plans to reward customers and canopy losses on Nov. 24.

In an announcement on X, Solar wrote:

“As HTX and Poloniex strategy opening deposit and withdrawal, we are going to provoke an epic airdrop for customers with property. Please keep tuned! My deepest apologies to the customers affected by the hacker assaults on HTX and Poloniex. We’ll cowl the loss and all property are are SAFE.”

HTX confirmed the airdrop and offered additional particulars. It wrote that airdrop quantities shall be based mostly on a snapshot of customers’ 30-day common asset stability in USDT — referred to by the corporate as “Rockets.” The trade added that customers who maintain property associated to the corporate akin to HTX Token (HT) and Tron (TRX), in addition to customers holding Bitcoin (BTC) and (ETH), could have their Rocket values multiplied.

HTX didn’t reveal which cryptocurrency the airdrop will distribute however mentioned that the supply will contain a premium asset that it’s going to quickly listing.

The announcement says that the airdrop is supposed to “specific … gratitude in your ongoing assist,” that means that the airdrop is an extra distribution supposed to reward clients who didn’t withdraw their balances all through the incident. It’s unclear whether or not HTX should straight compensate any consumer account balances.

TRX entry and numerous deposits restored

HTX and Poloniex have been focused in two assaults in November. Poloniex misplaced $120 million on Nov. 10; it plans to reopen deposits and withdrawals on Nov. 30.

HTX misplaced an estimated $13.6 million in an Nov. 22 assault. It said on the time that it supposed to revive withdrawals and operations inside 24 hours.

The trade seems to have solely partially achieved this, as Solar mentioned in another statement HTX has resumed Tron (TRX) deposits and withdrawals.

HTX confirmed that assertion, adding that it has reopened deposits for choose cryptocurrencies on the Ethereum and Tron blockchains together with its personal HT and HUSD tokens, a number of main stablecoins, and quite a few different property.