Bitget resumes BTC withdrawals as hacker swaps ETH on THORChain
THORChain (RUNE)
Editor:
Eugene Serbin
Cointelegraph.com reports that Bitget is resuming Bitcoin withdrawals on Monday following a security breach that compromised nearly $388 million in assets. The exchange initially suspended withdrawals after the Sept. 24 incident, which affected its hot and warm wallet infrastructure while cold wallets remained secure. Bitget revised the stolen amount from $351.6 million to $387.5 million after accounting for additional transfers on Zcash and Tron.
CEO Gracy Chen stated that BTC withdrawals on the Bitcoin network and BNB Smart Chain were restored first because the pipeline was the first to be completed. Ether withdrawals are scheduled to return on Tuesday across Ethereum, BNB Smart Chain, Arbitrum, Base, and Optimism. USDT withdrawals will resume on Wednesday across Ethereum, BNB Smart Chain, Solana, and Tron.
Other assets and peer-to-peer services are set to return on Friday, with no priority access for institutions or VIP customers. The attacker has been moving stolen crypto through THORChain, swapping Ether for Bitcoin. Bitget CEO Gracy Chen called on THORChain to refuse services to addresses linked to the attack. THORChain described its network halt as an emergency security mechanism affecting the protocol broadly rather than a selective freeze of specific funds.
How the market reacted
Whalio's own Binance spot order flow for RUNE, measured when this story was written up on 28 September 2026. Not the outlet's figures.
RUNE is trading at $0.7600 with a 24-hour spot volume of $28,025,013. The 24-hour buy ratio stands at 54.6%, indicating that buyers are currently in control of the market flow. However, the 1-hour buy ratio has dropped to 48.1%, suggesting that short-term buying pressure is fading compared to the longer-term trend. The 4-hour buy ratio is 53.5%, sitting between the short and long-term figures. Volume delta shows a net outflow of $11,602 in the last hour, contrasting with a net inflow of $54,159 over the past four hours. Over the last 24 hours, the volume delta is positive at $2,569,424, and the cumulative volume delta closed at +$753,315. This indicates that while immediate selling pressure has increased, the overall trend over the day remains net buying.
The latest daily buy ratio of 45.1% sits at the 6th percentile of the last 323 days, against a median of 50.3% - among the weakest buying days it has had.
Was that an ordinary day?
The same Binance spot measurements for RUNE, averaged over the days leading up to the story.
Over the preceding week, the average buy ratio was 51.5%, meaning the current 24-hour ratio of 54.6% is 3.1 points higher than the weekly average. This level of activity is unusual, as the 24-hour volume is 3.66 times the weekly average volume. The coin has seen a price change of +34.5% over the last eight days, with a total volume delta of +$6,752,302. There were five days of net buying out of seven in the preceding week. This sustained buying pressure contrasts with the slight short-term pullback seen in the last hour.