Gate.io denies liquidity issues after Multichain CEO goes lacking

by Jeremy

Centralized crypto change Gate.io denied rumors of illiquidity on Might 31, stating that “there are not any points with our operations or withdrawals as rumored.” The assertion comes after quite a few Twitter channels had alleged that the change was experiencing insolvency as a consequence of an alleged connection between it and the cross-chain router protocol Multichain (MULTI).

The Gate.io group mentioned the corporate’s “operations are working wholesome” and that it’s targeted on establishing an affiliated trading platform in Hong Kong referred to as Gate.HK.

Rumors about Gate.io’s insolvency erupted after a collection of occasions regarding Multichain. On Might 24, blockchain analytics agency Arkham Intelligence posted information displaying giant inflows of MULTI to Gate.io, which Arkham mentioned was associated to rumors of the protocol’s group “allegedly being arrested in Shanghai.”

On Might 25, Binance suspended deposits for a number of bridged tokens that relied on the Multichain protocol, together with bridged variations of Polkastarter (POLS), Alpaca Finance (ALPACA), and Fantom (FTM). Binance mentioned these tokens have been experiencing delayed transactions and briefly paused deposits whereas in search of readability from Multichain.

On Might 31, Multichain posted an announcement that its CEO was lacking, including that a number of the protocol’s routers now not work as a result of solely the CEO had entry to the related servers. The identical day, some Twitter customers started posting photographs of transactions that have been allegedly giant deposits of FTM from Multichain group members to Gate.io.

Blockchain information confirms that greater than $10 million of FTM was transferred from an unknown person to Gate.io on Might 25-26. Cointelegraph was not in a position to decide the id of the account proprietor performing the transaction.

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After seeing a number of deposits of MULTI and Fantom to Gate.io, some Twitter customers suspected that the change was uncovered to fallout from Multichain.

The group at Gate.io has denied these rumors, stating that the change is processing all withdrawals and working usually.