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Around three in four EU-registered crypto firms are expected to fail MiCA's June 30 deadline, and AscendEX is the first major name to publicly warn users their funds may be stuck.
The shutdown cites MiCA, regulatory, financial and operational pressure, and a Coin Bureau report points to empty hot wallets, framing a full-balance recovery as uncertain for AscendEX users.
The exchange blamed a failed strategic transaction and MiCA pressure for the July 1 shutter, but the more dangerous signal is the empty hot wallets ZachXBT flagged weeks earlier.
A former top-10 CEX backed by Polychain and Hack VC went dark on July 1, the same day on-chain sleuth ZachXBT warned that public wallets had run dry on ETH, USDT and SOL.
If hot-wallet reserves in ETH, USDT and SOL are running light, the withdrawal queue stops being an operations problem and starts being a solvency question for users still parked on the venue.
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