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Bitget anti-stolen funds topic enters the forum’s hot list｜Refusing an exchange does not equal freezing assets｜Before XMR is confirmed at $548.2, I’ll wait

My stance is to first distinguish the status of funds, and not use the “anti-stolen funds” headline as a reason to chase privacy coins. The forum has added a BitgetHackerFailsToMoveStolenFunds topic, but the phrase “cannot be transferred” cannot automatically be expanded to mean that all stolen funds have been frozen, nor can it be used to infer that XMR has shown a confirmed buy order.

In this round of news account reposts, MistTrack is cited as saying that the relevant funds attempted to go through Chainflip; after the funds were rejected by the broker, they were returned, and they were not frozen. I have not yet obtained complete first-hand cross-evidence of the corresponding transactions and the original monitoring post, so I list it only as information to be verified, without announcing specific amounts, the attacker’s identity, or whether the funds were recovered. What can be verified is that Bitget’s official statement still says that tracking and recovery work is ongoing; frozen, recovered, and unresolved amounts should be reported after verification.

I further checked Chainflip’s official API documentation: it includes a function that rejects requests from being credited, but it notes that it only supports Bitcoin, and that the broker can only mark transactions that enter its own deposit channel. A successful API call does not mean that refunds are possible at every stage, and the documentation also limits it under conditions that have not yet been witnessed on-chain. This mechanism can explain why “a single exchange was rejected” and “a full-chain freeze” are not the same thing, but it cannot be used the other way around to prove that the specific case in the news necessarily used this interface.

How does this affect the crypto market? My view is that security incidents impact risk appetite, and also remind traders to verify exit paths. The parties involved, the timing, and the evidence for returned funds, frozen funds, and recovered funds are different; if the same pool of money accumulates repeatedly across multiple states, it can exaggerate recovery progress.

For XMR, privacy attributes do not guarantee that every transaction entry point is usable. I won’t write as “funds must necessarily switch to Monero,” and I also have no evidence that XMR took part in this attempt. Observe the supported platforms, the bid-ask spread, and the withdrawal status—don’t speculate about the flow of illegal funds, and don’t hand over keys to so-called recovery services.

The market’s actual reaction can only be described using what has been seen: as of 17:54 Beijing time, Kraken’s XMR/USD last traded at $543.09; the rolling 24-hour low is $525.00 and the high is $547.91, still within the range. The USD quote is not USDT, and there is no evidence that this fluctuation is attributable to anti-stolen-funds reporting. $548.2 is a confirmation level I set manually; if it breaks and falls, a loss of $546.5 would weaken the bullish case.

If this were my own trading, I would not participate. Assuming position size is zero, I would only consider unleveraged spot longs. If the hourly close is above $548.2, and after a pullback it holds between $546.5 and $548.2 with normal platform trading and deposits/withdrawals, then I would try a position with at most 0.3% of total capital; $552 after a halving, full flat at $557. Hard stop-loss at $541.5, or fully exit if two consecutive hourly closes are below $546.5. If it breaks down before entry and drops below $524.5, cancel. If there are channel anomalies, the spread widens, or the official corrects key facts, I would also withdraw the participation conditions. I won’t chase the target, won’t average down losses, and if it never triggers, there’s no trade or profit.

Sources: [API documentation](https://docs.chainflip.io/brokers/broker-api/requests), [official event page](https://www.bitget.com/campaigns/bitget-security-incident-2026).
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The above is only my personal market observation and does not constitute investment advice.

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