Justin Solar has taken to X (previously Twitter) to clarify that “all exchanges in the industry have already implemented proof of reserves (PoR).” He adopted up this pronouncement by additional emphasizing that “there is only one explanation for why” exchanges have but to do it — “they are unable to meet the requirements.”
This reveal was considerably stunning as Poloniex, a cryptocurrency trade owned by Solar, has not carried out PoR, and as such we’re pressured to conclude that Poloniex can also be “unable to meet the requirements.”
Poloniex has a web page on its web site that claims to be a “Proof of Reserves,” however this web page solely reveals how a lot Tron is on Poloniex, neglecting each single different asset.
These points change into particularly attention-grabbing in gentle of the truth that Solar has not too long ago centered so a lot of his criticisms on the newly launched cbBTC, Coinbase’s wrapped-Bitcoin product. He has repeatedly emphasised that the dearth of disclosure surrounding the place the bitcoins are saved represents a elementary downside with cbBTC.
Nevertheless, once more, Poloniex is an issue. Poloniex presents a well-liked Bitcoin on Tron product that’s far bigger than cbBTC. This product has a market cap of roughly $6.7 billion, far bigger than the $110 million that cbBTC represents. Poloniex additionally refuses to reveal the place the bitcoins for this product are held.
Much more troubling, the Poloniex product represents greater than half of all bitcoin at Solar-advised HTX, making Solar’s insistence on these cbBTC points much more inexplicable.
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Poloniex has beforehand dedicated to offering a PoR audit, however no audit has been supplied for Poloniex, and Solar now insists that “auditors can’t guarantee that the funds are still on-chain.”
Protos has reached out to Poloniex about these points, however at press we have now not heard again.
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