According to Lookonchain's post, many wallets that have been dormant for 3.3 years transferred 789,533 Ethereum (ETH) worth a total of $2 billion.
Investigating where these funds came from, Lookonchain stated that it detected that ETHs came to these wallets from the “Plus Token Ponzi 2” wallet.
These ETHs were seized by Chinese police fighting against the PlusToken Ponzi scheme.
The Plus Token Ponzi 2 wallet distributed Ethereum to thousands of wallets in 2020, and the wallets have not moved since then.
However, activity has begun in these wallets and thousands of ETH transfers are being made.
“Hundreds of wallets that have been dormant for 3.3 years are moving large amounts of $ETH, possibly 789,533 ETH ($2 billion worth)!
We noticed that hundreds of dormant addresses were transferring ETH.
Through on-chain monitoring, we identified these funds as coming from the “Plus Token Ponzi 2” wallet.
Plus Token distributed 789,533 ETH from its Ponzi 2 wallet to thousands of wallets in 2020, and these wallets have not moved since April 2021.
ETH transfers from these wallets started approximately 3 hours ago.
It was seized by Chinese police during an operation against an Ethereum Ponzi scheme.
Within the scope of the Plus Token operation, a total of 194,775 BTC ($11.2 billion), 833,083 ETH ($2.11 billion), 487 million XRP ($252 million), 79,581 BCH ($25.8 million), 1.4 million LTC (82, “3 million dollars), 27.6 million EOS ($12.7 million), 74,167 DASH ($1.7 million), 6 billion DOGE ($609 million) and 213,724 USDT were seized.”
As you may remember, within the scope of the operation, the Chinese police seized Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), XRP, Litecoin (LTC) and many altcoins with a total value of over 4.2 billion dollars. The Plus Token Ponzi scheme defrauded more than 2 million people for more than 50 billion yuan ($7.6 billion).
*This is not investment advice.