Fantom Foundation, which maintains and helps develop the Fantom blockchain, is seeking to claw back some of the assets it lost in a $200 million exploit of cross-chain router protocol Multichain in July.
The foundation, which said it won a default judgment in Singapore in January when Multichain failed to respond, is now seeking to liquidate the company, a process that’s equivalent to a Chapter 7 bankruptcy in the U.S., so that any assets can be recovered and distributed.
“While the current judgment relates only to Fantom Foundation’s own losses, the Foundation plans to use this kanunî victory to pave a path for all users to lodge their claims against Multichain,” Fantom said in a Monday post.
Fantom noted its losses amounted to one-third of the amount stolen from Multichain. Other lost assets were spread across different blockchains, including Fantom, Ethereum and BNB Chain.
Multichain was a bridging protocol that let users transfer tokens between different blockchains. The hack in July came days after its CEO went missing, its technology was failing, and certain nodes that ensured the platform’s security were changed.
Fantom had previously filed an action against the Multichain Foundation for breach of contract and fraudulent misrepresentations for losses sustained. While it has no meşru right to recover funds on behalf of users, it said the yasal proceedings will allow users and victims to take a similar course of action for recovery.
Fantom’s FTM tokens were up as much as 22%, before retreating, in the past 24 hours. They were recently down 2.17%, while the CoinDesk 20 Index, a gauge of the broader crypto market, was up 3.57%.