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. Funds on shut-down Swellchain

   Swellchain, Swell

   $27 · 1 position

   Swell closed Swellchain: the final withdrawal deadline was 2026-06-15 and the chain was to run until 2026-06-30. Withdrawals started before 15 June can still be finalized on Ethereum.

   1. If your withdrawal was started before 15 June: after the 7-day proof wait, prove it on the Ethereum OptimismPortal2 0x758E0EE66102816F5C3Ec9ECc1188860fbb87812 (proveWithdrawalTransaction).
   2. Then call finalizeWithdrawalTransaction on the same contract. You pay ETH gas.
   3. If you never started one: Swell said contract withdrawals were possible until 30 June but are technical. Ask Swell support.

   Official bridges for the chains your positions are on:

   • Swell Superbridge UI (listed by Swellchain docs) (opens in a new tab)

   Official docs (opens in a new tab)

2. Ionic Protocol deposit

   $14 · 1 positionMay not work

   Ionic Protocol lending is shut down and ionic.money is now a domain for sale. Your deposit receipt (ionToken) may still be redeemable, only for the cash left, first come first served.

   1. Open the ionToken contract for your market and chain in the block explorer. Find the pool list with PoolDirectory.getAllPools().
   2. If you have an open loan, repay it first.
   3. Connect your wallet and call redeem or redeemUnderlying. You get at most the cash left in the market.

   Official docs (opens in a new tab)

3. Expired Pendle position

   $14 · 1 position

   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)

4. Lisk L2 balance (closing)

   $7 · 3 positions

   Lisk's own chain closes on 2026-10-31. Lisk says withdrawing to Ethereum takes about 8 days, and unstaking LSK adds 3 days. Start now.

   1. Open the Lisk bridge (type bridge.lisk.com yourself) and connect your wallet.
   2. Withdraw your assets to Ethereum. If you staked LSK, unlock it first and wait 3 days.
   3. After the wait, prove and finalize the withdrawal on Ethereum. You pay gas on both chains.

   Official bridges for the chains your positions are on:

   • Lisk Bridge (opens in a new tab)

   Lisk bridge (opens in a new tab)Official docs (opens in a new tab)

5. zkSync Lite balance not claimed

   $5 · 1 position

   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)

6. Orbit Lending deposit on Blast

   $2 · 1 position

   You supplied funds to Orbit Lending on Blast, which was exploited. You can still withdraw, but some markets hold less cash than is owed, so first come, first served.

   1. Open your cToken contract (listed in the row) on Blast's block explorer, Write tab, connect wallet.
   2. Call redeem(cTokenBalance) or redeemUnderlying(amount).
   3. If you have a borrow in the same market, repay it first; your collateral is locked until then.

   Compound v2 docs (same contract code) (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.

   Official bridges for the chains your positions are on:

   • Redstone balance claim (opens in a new tab)

8. Stake in PancakeSwap MasterChef v1

   <$1 · 1 position

   You staked LP or CAKE in the first PancakeSwap farm contract and left it there. The contract still lets you withdraw.

   1. Open MasterChef v1 (0x73feaa1eE314F8c655E354234017bE2193C9E24E) on BscScan and use Write Contract.
   2. Connect the staking wallet and call withdraw(pid, amount) or emergencyWithdraw(pid). For pool 0 (CAKE), use leaveStaking(amount).
   3. Then remove liquidity from the LP token if you want the two coins.

   MasterChef v1 on BscScan (opens in a new tab)

9. STG never swapped to ZRO

   Stargate / LayerZero

   <$1 · 1 position

   You hold STG that was never swapped to ZRO. The official redemption site gives 0.08634 ZRO per STG. LayerZero says conversions end on 15 December 2026.

   1. Open the STG Redemption site and connect the wallet that holds STG on Ethereum.
   2. Sign the Terms of Conversion message when asked, approve STG, then confirm the swap.
   3. Do this before 15 December 2026. Conversions are not supported after that date.
   4. Without the site: call swap(stgAmount, signature) on 0x921949cc006A563D76Abd111a3e4c2ACe2C4273f. The signature is of the Terms text.

   Stargate's STG to ZRO post on X (opens in a new tab)Official docs (opens in a new tab)

10. 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)

11. Nucleus vault shares

    Nucleus (BoringVault)

    <$1 · 1 position

    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)