{"id":82415,"date":"2023-07-31T16:13:04","date_gmt":"2023-07-31T13:13:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=82415"},"modified":"2025-09-12T04:52:26","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T01:52:26","slug":"user-recovers-74m-in-ens-locked-assets-after-ens-auction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/user-recovers-74m-in-ens-locked-assets-after-ens-auction\/","title":{"rendered":"User recovers $74m in ENS-locked assets after ENS auction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The darkmarket.eth address returned 39,712 ETH (~$74 million at the time of writing) that had been locked during the Ethereum Name Service (ENS) domain-name auction.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snimok-ekrana-2023-07-31-v-15.39.06.webp\" alt=\"Snimok-ekrana-2023-07-31-v-15.39.06\" class=\"wp-image-212600\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Data: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lookonchain\/status\/1685935783612764160\">X<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It <a href=\"https:\/\/etherscan.io\/txsInternal?a=0x8759b0b1d9cba80e3836228dfb982abaa2c48b97\">\u043f\u0435\u0440\u0435\u043c\u0435\u0441\u0442\u0438\u043b<\/a> these funds and a further 63,734 ETH (~$119 million) to a new wallet.<\/p>\n<p>In 2021, ENS founder and chief developer Nick Johnson reminded darkmarket.eth and other users to return their assets locked in the protocol. He attached a special withdrawal link to the message.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cEssentially, they participated in the auctions and won several names back in 2016\/2017, and when we migrated to the new version in 2019, they never published the documents authorising the return of the blocked funds,\u201d Johnson wrote.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>With the transition to the new ENS protocol, users were required to update their addresses for data and asset transfers. The developer noted that the old registry still contains \u201cthousands of unclaimed domains containing tens of thousands of ETH.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In August 2022, an unknown participant in the Ethereum ICO <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/ethereum-kit-moves-145000-eth-acquired-during-the-ico\">moved 145,000 ETH<\/a> from a wallet that had been idle for the last three years.<\/p>\n<p>Later, a user who bought 8,000 ETH during the ICO <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/dormant-eight-year-address-moves-8000-eth\">transferred<\/a> all funds to another wallet. A few days earlier, 207 ETH were sent to the same address, which had been inactive since 2017.<\/p>\n<p>In July 2023, the Ethereum Genesis participant address for the first time in eight years <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/user-moves-641-eth-purchased-eight-years-ago\">moved 641 ETH<\/a> for about $1.2 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The darkmarket.eth address returned 39,712 ETH (~$74m at the time of writing) that had been locked during the Ethereum Name Service (ENS) auction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":82416,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"The darkmarket.eth address returned 39,712 ETH (~$74m) locked during the ENS auction.","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1227,1385],"class_list":["post-82415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-cryptocurrency-transactions","tag-ethereum-name-service"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"23","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"The darkmarket.eth address returned 39,712 ETH (~$74m) locked during the ENS auction.","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82415"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82417,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82415\/revisions\/82417"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}