Arkham Research tagged and notified wallet owners to look at these addresses and retrieve their funds, which have been stuck for months.
Dozens of crypto whale wallets with assets ranging from six to seven figures are stuck on multiple decentralized finance (DeFi) bridge contracts.
One of these whale wallets is linked to Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin, who has over $1 million worth of assets stuck for over seven months. While a few other wallets have assets unclaimed for over two years.
According to a report published by crypto analytics firm Arkham Intelligence, several notable whale addresses linked to prominent crypto individuals and entities have their funds stuck in these bridge contracts for as long as two years.