A group calling itself “Victims of Ankr Exploit” have declared that its members lost over 13,000 BNB liquid staking coins (over $4 million worth at the time of writing) as a result of the Dec. 2 Ankr exploit, but have actually not been properly compensated by the Ankr business.

According to a Jan. 19 declaration from the group received by Pandoraland, impacted members alleged that they have actually just gotten half of the amount they lost. The group has contacted Binance’s Chanpeng Zhao (also called “CZ”) to put pressure on Ankr to get the funds released.Ankr CEO Ryan Fang responded to the allegations in a Telegram discussion with Pandoraland. He mentioned that both the Stadr and pSTAKE groups accepted a 50 %compensation plan, which he stated were signed by agents from both business.”This amount is essentially signed off by jobs,”he said. “We did essentially what impacted job asked us to do. “1/4 We, the victims of Ankr exploit, are increasing the benefit from 100 BNB to 110 BNB(worth$28700 currently )for the person(including influencers and media )that: ✅ helps @cz_binance to comprehend the unjust payment AND; ✅ makes @ankr to compensate us 100%https://t.co/sZlkqGW58a!.?.!— Alex Soh (@AlexSoh14 )January 7, 2023 The group specifically declared that a repayment plan published by Ankr on Dec. 20 has actually been unjust to liquidity companies at Wombat exchange. Under this plan

, Ankr proposed to”partly cover the loss of stkBNB liquidity companies on Wombat.”Ankr argued that a full compensation would be unreasonable because”the nature of the combined liquidity swimming pools”on Wombat made it tough to figure out just how much liquidity companies had lost.The Ankr make use of victim group confessed that Ankr compensated them with 50%of the BNB lost in the attack, but insisted that it ought to have compensated them 100%. The group argued that Ankr has declined to compensate them totally because the stkBNB and BNBx liquid staking tokens lost were competitors to Ankr’s own ankrBNB tokens:”It is obvious that there is a partition and discrimination of victims that is unjustifiable. And [a] truth that out of X protocols impacted, only two of them(Stader and pSTAKE), direct competitors of Ankr, see their users discriminated as victims.” Citing a tweet from ZachXBT, they argued that Ankr has the ability to compensate them completely due to the fact that it recuperated 1,559 ETH (roughly$ 2.4 million worth at the time of composing )from Huobi Global after the attacker tried to use it to cash out.Related: Uniswap thinks about releasing on BNB Chain The Ankr BNB staking protocol was hacked on Dec. 2, 2022, and the attacker had the ability to acquire$5 million in crypto from the attack. On Dec. 21, the business announced that the attack had been performed by an ex-employee. In the same statement, it promised to shore up its security practices and

reimburse victims.Update: This article has been upgraded with comments and information by Ankr CEO Ryan Fang