⚠️ Important notice: The airdrop for LPs will be processed in two batches 👉 The first batch will be an ankrBNB drop 👉 The rest, BNB, has been calculated but will proceed later 🔜 Please bear with us and the whole amount will be dropped soon! 🤝 Apologies for any confusion caused by this not being communicated sooner. 🙌 Thank you for your continued understanding and patience!

📣 Today Ankr started air-dropping ankrBNB to all aBNBc and aBNBb token holders (wallet only, not including smart contracts holding these tokens). 🚨 For now, we have locked transferability for ankrBNB to ensure a fair launch. ⏱️ You can expect this to be unlocked by Friday evening (PST) ‼️ Users that redeemed aBNBc or aBNBb (unstake) before the exploit, will receive BNB at the end of the unbonding period. ‼️ Users that redeemed aBNBc or aBNBb after the exploit, will not receive BNB at the end of the unbonding period and will get ankrBNB airdrop. 🔗 Here is the token address for ankrBNB:

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‼️ Users that held aBNBc and aBNBb through smart contracts can expect to receive an airdrop tomorrow. ‼️ We will announce it via our social channels when it happens.

📣 Our new token, ankrBNB, is going to replace aBNBc and aBNBb, to become the sole BNB-based liquid asset available from Ankr. ➕ The new token will be reward bearing and the reward earning concept will be retired for BNB as a result. 🤓 Our new token model ensures users can start using Ankr Staking easily and efficiently by removing reward-earning tokens that are still not supported across many DeFi platforms. 🔗 Read all about it here:

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📣 Report on halted trading: reasons and in-depth technical explanation: DEX’s themselves very often do not have the ability to stop tradability, which is why Ankr recommended liquidity providers remove liquidity from the liquidity pools. We are absolutely not following a LUNA approach. aBNBc and aBNBb will be worthless with 100% certainty after the airdrop of the new ankrBNB token. ankrBNB will be the only token redeemable against staked BNB (which have been unaffected by the exploit). We recommended anyone providing liquidity removed it, in order to avoid speculative trading, since DEX’s cannot generally block the ability to trade. Ankr also cannot block speculative trading as we cannot control other defi protocols. ‼️ Why did selling stop but buying continued? Because there was no more BNB in LPs to sell aBNBb and aBNBc. It was drained out by the exploiter, who had an unlimited amount of aBNBc that he sold on DEX’s vs BNB until drying out completely the liquidity pools (=0% BNB/100% aBNBc in the LPs) The only exit then available to the exploiter was to sell aBNBc vs BNB on DEX’s since we blocked unstaking. DEX’s cannot be blocked and even if it was possible, it would have been too late to block it manually by the DEX team due to how DeFi protocols are run. 🛠 Why didn’t we simply change the contract to prevent buying and selling? Because the contract was already compromised and any changes we made could be undone or altered by the malicious actor. To take a more secure approach to prevent any further damage that could cover several leakage points we did a one shot replace with the original contract and took preventive measures so it wouldn't be reverted again.

Ankr Official Announcements: ⚠️ We understand diluted aBNBc was speculatively traded after the exploit occurred, but we are only able to compensate LP’s caught off guard by the event. 👤 Regarding individual users, we will only compensate users that were holding aBNBc/aBNBb before the exploit took place as this is the correct time to take the snapshot. 🤝 We remain at your disposal for any further questions or/and doubts. 🗞️ Read our latest explanatory article for an in-depth explanation on compensations and security updates:

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Further instructions from the Ankr team: 1. Do not trade 2. Remove liquidity from DEXes if you are a liquidity provider (and keep the aBNBc) 3. Snapshot will be done and wait for additional news 4. Will do a reissuance of aBNBc

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