Use only the official links below. No real recovery asks for your seed phrase or private key. If anyone offers to recover funds for you, it is a scam.

1. Unfinished zkSync withdrawal

   zkSync Era

   $19 · 1 position

   You started a withdrawal from zkSync Era (or a similar ZK Stack chain) to Ethereum, but never finalized it on Ethereum. The money sits in the L1 bridge.

   1. Open the ZKsync bridge and connect your wallet.
   2. Find the withdrawal that is ready to finalize. Withdrawals are delayed about 3 hours after they are sent.
   3. Press Finalize and pay the Ethereum gas fee. The funds go to the receiver address.

   Official bridges for the chains your positions are on:

   • ZKsync Portal bridge (opens in a new tab)

   zkSync Bridge (opens in a new tab)Official docs (opens in a new tab)

2. USDC burned but not minted

   Circle CCTP

   $7 · 2 positions

   USDC was burned on one chain through Circle CCTP but the matching USDC was never minted on the destination chain. Circle can still sign it, so it can be completed.

   1. Find the burn transaction hash on the source chain.
   2. Get the signed attestation for it from Circle's attestation API (see the Circle CCTP docs).
   3. On the destination chain, call receiveMessage(message, attestation) on the MessageTransmitter contract. You pay the gas fee. USDC goes to the recipient.

   Circle CCTP docs (opens in a new tab)Official docs (opens in a new tab)

3. zkSync Lite balance not claimed

   $7 · 2 positions

   zkSync Lite was shut down on 2026-05-04. Remaining balances are claimable on Ethereum through a claim contract and a withdrawal portal. Your account is on that list and has not claimed.

   1. Open the zkSync Lite withdrawal portal and connect the wallet that owned the account.
   2. The portal finds your address in the final state, builds the proof and sends the claim. Follow its prompts.
   3. Confirm the Ethereum transaction. Tokens go to your L1 address. Matter Labs sponsors gas for the first 100,000 withdrawals.

   zkSync Lite withdrawal portal (opens in a new tab)Official docs (opens in a new tab)

4. Expired Pendle position

   $4 · 2 positions

   You hold Pendle PT or LP tokens from a market that has expired. They can be redeemed for the underlying asset at any time.

   1. Open the Pendle app, connect your wallet, and go to Portfolio.
   2. Find the expired position and press Redeem (for PT) or Remove liquidity (for LP).
   3. For LP, redeem the PT you receive afterwards. Confirm and pay gas.

   Pendle app (opens in a new tab)Official docs (opens in a new tab)

5. Nucleus vault shares

   Nucleus (BoringVault)

   $4 · 3 positions

   Nucleus deprecated its vaults on 19 Dec 2025 and the withdraw page is gone. You can redeem vault shares through the Teller contract, but only for assets the vault still holds.

   1. Read the Nucleus deprecation guide first.
   2. Check which tokens the vault still holds, and your vault token balance, on Etherscan (or the Plume explorer).
   3. On the vault's Teller contract, Write tab, call bulkWithdraw(withdrawAsset, shareAmount, minimumAssets, to). The guide says to use 0 for minimumAssets.

   Nucleus deprecation guide (opens in a new tab)Official docs (opens in a new tab)

6. Thruster v3 position on Blast

   $1 · 1 position

   You hold a Thruster v3 liquidity position (an NFT) on Blast. Thruster has shut down, but the position contract still works.

   1. Open the position contract 0x434575EaEa081b735C985FA9bf63CD7b87e227F9 on Blastscan, Write tab, and connect the wallet that owns the NFT.
   2. Call decreaseLiquidity with your tokenId, the liquidity amount, amount0Min, amount1Min and a deadline. Thruster's old guide explains each field.
   3. Then call collect(tokenId, recipient, max, max) to receive the tokens. You can call burn(tokenId) afterwards to delete the empty NFT.
   4. If the NFT is not in your wallet, it may be locked in another contract such as Hyperlock. Withdraw it from there first.

   Thruster position manager (opens in a new tab)

7. Archived L2 bridge funds

   Archived L2s

   <$1 · 1 positionMay not work

   This chain shut down and its state is gone, so no one can prove a withdrawal now. The Ethereum bridge still holds the money; only the chain team can release it.

   1. Use the official bridge of the chain you withdrew from (linked next to each of your positions).
   2. Check that chain's official site for a refund or recovery notice.
   3. Without the chain's final state nobody can prove a withdrawal. Only the chain team can release the bridge funds.

8. Polygon zkEVM balance

   <$1 · 1 position

   Polygon zkEVM's sequencer stopped on 1 July 2026. Wallet-held funds not bridged before then can be claimed on Ethereum in a claim UI. Polygon treats unclaimed assets as abandoned after 2027-12-31.

   1. Open the Polygon zkEVM claims site and connect the wallet that held the funds.
   2. Pick your balances and send the claim transaction on Ethereum.
   3. Funds locked inside DeFi contracts are not auto-migrated. Ask Polygon through the forum post.

   Official bridges for the chains your positions are on:

   • Agglayer bridge UI (opens in a new tab)

   zkEVM claims site (opens in a new tab)Official docs (opens in a new tab)