In brief
- On-chain data shows roughly $183 million in ETH, USDT, USDC, AVAX, BNB, and other tokens moved from wallets labeled as Bitget's to a single address over about an hour on Thursday.
- A freshly created wallet spent $19.67 million in USDT0 to buy 7,111 ETH in six minutes on Arbitrum, paying up to 5% above market price through decentralized exchanges UniswapX and 1inch Fusion.
- Users report blocked withdrawals and Bitget has issued no public statement.
More than $183 million in crypto assets has been drained from wallets belonging to cryptocurrency exchange Bitget in an apparent hack, according to analysts and blockchain data. The company, however, has yet to confirm the exploit.
On-chain sleuths, including Bubblemaps and Arkham analysts, flagged the unusual activity late Thursday as Bitget, one of the world's larger centralized trading platforms, being "potentially hacked." Within about an hour, roughly $183 million in assets moved out of wallets labeled as belonging to the exchange and into a newly created address.
The first sign came from a hot wallet—the internet-connected reserve an exchange uses to process everyday withdrawals quickly, as opposed to a cold wallet kept offline for safekeeping. A newly created address, beginning with “0xe410,” took $19.67 million worth of USDT0—a cross-chain version of the dollar-pegged stablecoin Tether— and swapped them for 7,111 ETH in just six minutes. Unlike USDT, ETH is decentralized and hard to seize.
ALERT: 🚨 Bitget potentially hacked
Bitget wallets just sent $180M across multiple chains to a single destination:
0x770b10b273fC44Fe9197D6bF20F145c2e98463Ee
Which then further dispersed to:
0x469Ac1406dE92f82C0563477240a3627057425DC… pic.twitter.com/1ydmKWAEAD
— Bubblemaps (@bubblemaps) September 24, 2026
Based on reports, the purchase ran through UniswapX and 1inch Fusion, services that let traders swap tokens directly on the blockchain without going through a middleman. Whoever placed those orders paid roughly 5% above the going market rate, the kind of premium that shows up when speed matters more than getting a good price.
Think @bitget hot wallet might’ve just been hacked for 20M?
something hella fishy happening on @arbitrum
Fresh wallet 0xe410…d946 just bought 7,111 ETH on Arbitrum in 6 min with 19.67M USDT0 (from a Bitget hot wallet), via UniswapX + 1inch Fusion, paying up to +5% over spot…
— DCF GOD (@dcfgod) September 24, 2026
More transfers followed.
Additional wallets tagged as Bitget's sent ETH, AVAX, BNB, USDC, USDT, and XAUT—a token backed by physical gold—to the same address, according to pseudonymous on-chain researcher DCF GOD, who first flagged the activity on X.
Outflows from the exchange's publicly labeled wallets appeared to stop roughly six minutes after the first suspicious trade and stayed quiet for at least 20 minutes afterward, a pattern consistent with an exchange freezing withdrawals while it investigates.
Representatives for Bitget did not immediately respond to Decrypt’s request for comment.
When you deposit money on an exchange like Bitget, you're trusting that company to guard it in wallets it controls, not so different from handing cash to a bank teller. The difference is there's no government deposit insurance waiting to make customers whole if that vault gets cracked, which is exactly why "not your keys, not your coins" became a crypto mantra in the first place.
This wouldn't be the first time that trust got tested. In 2023, Bitget touted a $300 million protection fund built specifically to cover hacks, theft, and similar losses.
It has plenty of company. Rival exchange Bybit lost $1.4 billion in February 2025 after attackers spoofed a signing screen to hijack a routine cold-wallet transfer, the largest crypto theft on record. Across the industry last year, hackers stole a combined $2.72 billion from exchanges and protocols.
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