As of June 2026, USD 376,000 remains unpaid in the EulerClaims contract
The last recorded redemption was USD 95,000, 31 days ago.
In 2023, Euler Finance—a cryptocurrency lending platform—was hacked for $197 million. What was unusual was not the robbery, but what came after: the attacker returned almost all the money. Three years later, a portion of those recovered funds remain uncollected by their original owners, and at least one affected person found out just this week.
This June 4, 2026, an anonymous researcher identified an address with 32.3 ETH unclaimed since April 2023. To notify the owner, he used a particular mechanism of the Ethereum network: he embedded a text message directly into a transaction on the network.
Unlike an email or a social media message, this notice was permanently and publicly recorded on the network, visible to anyone with access to a block explorer. The message said: «You have 32.3 ETH claimable from the Euler redistribution process. Run claim() from this wallet. »
Euler Finance is a decentralized lending (DeFi) protocol that operates without banking intermediaries. After the attack in March 2023, reported at that time by Criptonoticias, 197 million dollars were stolen.
The team negotiated with the attacker and managed to recover approximately USD 240 million. In April of that year, it enabled a smart contract called EulerClaims, with USD 223 million available for those affected to withdraw their money.
According to Etherscan, the Ethereum network exploration platform, That contract is still active today.. The most recent redemption occurred 31 days ago for a value of USD 95,000, confirming that the collection process It remains in force more than three years after the incident.
There are still USD 376,000 undrawn
To date, the EulerClaims contract holds approximately $376,000 in assets that no one has collected. Etherscan points out that this responds to a recurring problem in the ecosystem: When the websites or applications that facilitated payment disappear, many users lose track of their funds, even though the money is still available online.
Smart contracts have no expiration date. Unlike an inactive bank account that the State can claim, funds in cryptocurrency networks remain accessible indefinitely to whoever has the private key to their original wallet.
Etherscan maintains that any User who has deposited funds into Euler Finance before March 13, 2023 can check if they have outstanding assets directly on the protocol redemption page, without the need for intermediaries or advanced technical knowledge.