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Why Ketju rejected JustCryptos

Memo v1Published by Ketju Research

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The memo

REJECTED. JustCryptos is not a smart-contract bridge; it is a Poloniex-custodied wrapping service that issues TRC-20 representations of BTC, ETH, and other assets on TRON, with no published contract addresses, minting logic, or on-chain architecture found in this review. The only way to obtain or redeem the wrapped tokens is through a Poloniex account — an exchange Justin Sun has owned and controlled since 2019, and whose hot wallet was drained of more than $100M in a November 2023 breach. This is fully custodial, single-entity, KYC-gated exposure to a custodian with a realized, not theoretical, security failure on record.

What would reopen the file

  • JustCryptos publishes verifiable wrapped-token contract addresses and custody or reserve architecture, not only a claimed transparency webpage
  • An independent, named custodian separate from Poloniex's own hot wallets holds backing reserves, or an independent proof-of-reserves audit is published
  • A genuinely permissionless mint or redeem path is demonstrated that does not require a Poloniex account
  • No further Poloniex hot-wallet security incident occurs for 24 consecutive months following the November 2023 breach

Facts on file

Verdict
Rejected
Exposure
other
Chains examined
TRON
Memo version
v1
Reviewed
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