Binance began restoring customer withdrawals in stages on Sunday, more than two days after hackers attempted to move over $6 billion from the cryptocurrency exchange in what became the largest cyber theft ever recorded.
The world's largest digital asset platform suspended the relevant transactions in Asia on Friday morning after disclosing a security breach. The company said on a social platform that the first phase of withdrawals began around 2pm Singapore time, with Bitcoin withdrawals restored first.
The initial batch will include withdrawals for 15 tokens, among them Ether and the two largest stablecoins, Tether's USDT and Circle Internet Group's USDC.
"We are taking a phased approach, prioritising tokens based on user demand data from the past week, so that we can carefully restore each network and asset pair and complete stability and security checks before reopening access," Binance said.
On Sunday, most major cryptocurrency prices moved little, suggesting investor confidence had recovered after Binance pledged to bear all losses.
Bitcoin, which accounts for roughly 60% of the entire crypto industry's total market value, is currently trading at about $77,800, roughly 5% below the high it reached before Thursday's attack.
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