{"id":82623,"date":"2023-08-04T11:35:34","date_gmt":"2023-08-04T08:35:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=82623"},"modified":"2025-09-12T06:11:38","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T03:11:38","slug":"arkham-intelligence-offers-bounty-for-ftx-hacker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/arkham-intelligence-offers-bounty-for-ftx-hacker\/","title":{"rendered":"Arkham Intelligence offers bounty for FTX hacker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The administration of the Arkham Intel Exchange on-chain data marketplace <a href=\"https:\/\/platform.arkhamintelligence.com\/exchange\/bounties\/c42edcc0-82d2-4762-8098-ec027d48491d\">published a bounty<\/a> for information about the FTX hacker who breached the exchange, with a reward of 100,000 ARKM (~$50,000 at the time of writing).<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u00abDuring <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/ftx-group-files-for-bankruptcy-sam-bankman-fried-resigns-as-ceo\">the FTX collapse<\/a> in November 2022, exchange representatives reported an exploit that led to <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/unknown-actors-moved-more-than-400-million-from-ftx-wallets\">losses of more than $415 million<\/a> in cryptocurrency. The hacker&#8217;s identity remains unknown\u00bb, the description reads.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The client has also attached three addresses linked to the alleged attacker. The contract runs until August 17.<\/p>\n<p>Arkham <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ArkhamIntel\/status\/1687136057890938886\">noted<\/a> that the attack on FTX was the second-largest hack in the history of the industry.<\/p>\n<p>Analysts say that the exchange&#8217;s current CEO John Ray confirmed the incident in a remote post. According to him, the platform lost funds due to \u201cunauthorized transactions\u201d through the chief counsel Ryan Miller&#8217;s account on X (formerly Twitter).<\/p>\n<p>In addition, on the marketplace <a href=\"https:\/\/platform.arkhamintelligence.com\/exchange\/bounties\/eb405b98-2554-4bc2-b5e3-ae03c35fe366\">announced a bounty<\/a> for locating the wallets of former Terraform Labs head Do Kwon. Two online sleuths have already proven ownership of several addresses and received 9,519 ARKM (~$4,750).<\/p>\n<p>The administration published <a href=\"https:\/\/platform.arkhamintelligence.com\/exchange\/bounties\/eb405b98-2554-4bc2-b5e3-ae03c35fe366\">a bounty<\/a> for the Wintermute market maker hacker, who in September 2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/experts-tie-wintermutes-160-million-hack-to-vanity-address-generator-vulnerability\">stole more than $160 million<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>On the platform, a <a href=\"https:\/\/platform.arkhamintelligence.com\/exchange\/bounties\/754a55e4-d9d3-47c7-bc77-2fb923b18489\">reward<\/a> of 1,000 ARKM (~$500) was set for locating Elon Musk&#8217;s wallets. Among other contracts are whale identification, locating addresses of major companies or bounty hunting for small-time scammers and hackers.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"492\" src=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snimok-ekrana-2023-08-04-v-11.16.24-1024x492.png\" alt=\"Snimok-ekrana-2023-08-04-v-11.16.24\" class=\"wp-image-212943\" srcset=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snimok-ekrana-2023-08-04-v-11.16.24-1024x492.png 1024w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snimok-ekrana-2023-08-04-v-11.16.24-300x144.png 300w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snimok-ekrana-2023-08-04-v-11.16.24-768x369.png 768w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snimok-ekrana-2023-08-04-v-11.16.24.png 1293w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Orders on the Arkham Intel Exchange marketplace. Data: <a href=\"https:\/\/platform.arkhamintelligence.com\/exchange\">Arkham<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Because of such ambiguous bounty listings, the Arkham platform, launched on July 10, drew a negative reaction from the community. Users <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hudsonjameson\/status\/1678384583576891393?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1678384583576891393%7Ctwgr%5E7eb16aa9d0c5c795527525740eacad9d01b98cc8%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&#038;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fcointelegraph.com%2Fnews%2Farkham-on-chain-intel-exchange-labeled-snitch-to-earn-by-crypto-twitter\">dubbed<\/a> the project a \u201csnitching service\u201d, and some saw decentralization issues.<\/p>\n<p>As reported, during Arkham Intelligence&#8217;s token sale, 114,454 participants <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/users-lock-up-2-4bn-in-bnb-to-participate-in-arkham-token-sale\">locked up 10.18 million BNB<\/a> ($2.4 billion) to purchase tokens. The final conversion rate stood at 4.92 ARKM per 1 BNB.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Arkham Intel Exchange on-chain data marketplace published a bounty for information about the FTX hacker behind the breach, with a reward of 100,000 ARKM.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":82624,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1236,1268],"class_list":["post-82623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-ftx","tag-on-chain-analysis"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"15","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82623"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82625,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82623\/revisions\/82625"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}