A blog post from Rekt has revealed that FTX, a leading centralized exchange, has charged one of its users around $1 million for helping him to retrieve a deposit made into a wrong address.
FTX charged 15% instead of 5%
According to the post, the trader made a wrong deposit of $6.3 million into Paxos Stablecoin, whose ticker had been rebranded to USDP, whereas his intention was to deposit the funds into the stablecoin token for DeFi borrowing platform Unit Protocol whose ticker was also USDP.
In the defense submitted to the exchange, the trader revealed that this mistake was from the exchange because it failed to notify its users “of any other important announcements (such as coin name change) except emails of upcoming IEOs.”
He also continued that the charges being levied against him does not align with the “Wrong Address or Chain” policy of the exchange which states that the exchange would only charge between “$500 or 5%” to help a customer retrieve wrong deposits made i
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