《In 10 Minutes, We Used AI to Find 11 Forgotten Funds on the Blockchain》
⚠️Don’t forget to check your old wallets—you might still have funds waiting to be claimed.⚠️
The wave of shutdowns in crypto this year has been worse than expected. In its August report, DefiLlama counted 100 projects that had announced closures in 2026, including 40 in just the previous 90 days.
When a project shuts down, users’ assets left in its protocol aren’t automatically returned to their wallets. But as its frontend, APIs, and data services stop being maintained, those assets become increasingly difficult to find.
Asset dashboards like DeBank can’t possibly cover every old protocol. Over time, a common situation emerges: your funds are still on-chain, but you don’t even know they’re there.
Similar issues are widespread with cross-chain bridges. Many early bridges didn’t send funds directly to the destination chain. Instead, users had to initiate a transfer and then claim the funds on the destination chain later. If they forgot, they might not even remember years later that they had funds waiting to be claimed.
Recently, quite a few people on Timeline have been using Grok Bot to check their old wallet addresses, tracing their transaction history to find on-chain assets they’d long forgotten about. Inspired by this approach, Biteye created an “On-Chain Legacy Asset Checker” Skill to look for unclaimed cross-chain transfers, defunct projects, old protocols, and other funds waiting to be claimed.
💡It’s now open source on GitHub, so you can run it on your old addresses:
https://github.com/BiteyeAI/onchain-reclaim
We tested it on 10 old addresses and actually uncovered 11 legacy assets that can still be claimed, worth about $54 in total. They included balances on the now-defunct zkSync Lite chain, as well as positions in Gains Network / Blast that had been sitting unredeemed for over 900 days.
It’s also worth checking your exchange accounts. @Goupenguin previously shared a set of prompts for a “Comprehensive Exchange Legacy Asset Check.” You can use them alongside your email records to review exchanges you registered with in the past, old accounts, deposits and withdrawals, financial products, delisted assets, and more. The prompts are in the comments below 👇
⚠️Don’t forget to check your old wallets—you might still have funds waiting to be claimed.⚠️
The wave of shutdowns in crypto this year has been worse than expected. In its August report, DefiLlama counted 100 projects that had announced closures in 2026, including 40 in just the previous 90 days.
When a project shuts down, users’ assets left in its protocol aren’t automatically returned to their wallets. But as its frontend, APIs, and data services stop being maintained, those assets become increasingly difficult to find.
Asset dashboards like DeBank can’t possibly cover every old protocol. Over time, a common situation emerges: your funds are still on-chain, but you don’t even know they’re there.
Similar issues are widespread with cross-chain bridges. Many early bridges didn’t send funds directly to the destination chain. Instead, users had to initiate a transfer and then claim the funds on the destination chain later. If they forgot, they might not even remember years later that they had funds waiting to be claimed.
Recently, quite a few people on Timeline have been using Grok Bot to check their old wallet addresses, tracing their transaction history to find on-chain assets they’d long forgotten about. Inspired by this approach, Biteye created an “On-Chain Legacy Asset Checker” Skill to look for unclaimed cross-chain transfers, defunct projects, old protocols, and other funds waiting to be claimed.
💡It’s now open source on GitHub, so you can run it on your old addresses:
https://github.com/BiteyeAI/onchain-reclaim
We tested it on 10 old addresses and actually uncovered 11 legacy assets that can still be claimed, worth about $54 in total. They included balances on the now-defunct zkSync Lite chain, as well as positions in Gains Network / Blast that had been sitting unredeemed for over 900 days.
It’s also worth checking your exchange accounts. @Goupenguin previously shared a set of prompts for a “Comprehensive Exchange Legacy Asset Check.” You can use them alongside your email records to review exchanges you registered with in the past, old accounts, deposits and withdrawals, financial products, delisted assets, and more. The prompts are in the comments below 👇