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It's not clear when precisely the change went into effect, but reports of the limitation began appearing in April 2023.

Indeed, it later turned out that Sun's team had farmed around 279,000 SUI (SUI does not yet have a reliable dollar price because it is set to launch later this month). Sun blamed the event on a TUSD market maker, writing, "Regrettably, some of our team members were not fully aware of the intended purpose for these funds and inadvertently used a portion of them to participate in exchange campaigns. Upon realizing this error, we immediately contacted the exchange team and arranged for a full refund of the funds." Those replying to his comment seemed more than a little skeptical that the incident was truly a mistake.

Poloniex was a US-based crypto exchange founded in 2014, which in 2018 was purchased by Circle, who intended to get rid of the illegal activity for which it was known. However, when they discovered that the customers who used Poloniex no longer wanted to use it once they were subjected to scrutiny, they sold the platform to Justin Sun in late 2019, who relocated it to the Seychelles and shut down US operations. It appears that the OFAC fine will apply to the US entity most recently controlled by Circle, and not to Justin Sun's operation.

In August 2021, Poloniex also paid more than $10.3 million to settle allegations from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that it had operated as an unlicensed exchange.

The protocol was paused following the attack. 0VIX later tweeted that they had been collaborating with security firms to investigate the hack, and had offered to let the attacker keep $125,000 if they returned the remaining funds in a bug bounty agreement that would also involve 0VIX not pursuing legal action.