panews April 23 news, according to Cointelegraph, blockchain intelligence company Arkham said that it has discovered that multiple cryptocurrency addresses have "stranded" or "forgotten" millions of dollars in at least two large cross-chain bridge contracts. Arkham mentioned in a cross-post on April 22 that “there are dozens of accounts with six to seven figures stranded in cross-chain contracts that have been forgotten about.” These include co-founders of Ethereum People vitalik buterin, crypto exchange coinbase and multiple defi whale related wallets.
arkham pointed out that a wallet that received 50 eth from buterin now has $1.05 million stuck on the Optimism cross-chain bridge for seven months. If the address belongs to Buterin, the money represents only a small portion of his $789 million cryptocurrency portfolio, according to Arkham. Another wallet associated with Bofur Capital, with the same name as Celsius Creditor, has $1.8 million in WBTC stuck on the Arbitum cross-chain bridge and has not moved for 27 months. And thomasg.eth — the anonymous founder of decentralized air shipping solution Arrow — has $800,000 of eth stuck on the Arbitum cross-chain bridge. In addition, Arkham said that Coinbase tried to transfer $75,000 USDC to Ethereum through the Optimism cross-chain bridge six months ago, but it has not yet been claimed on the base layer of Ethereum.
However, it is also possible that the owners behind these wallets still have full control of the funds and voluntarily choose to keep them there temporarily.
