Dear Binance: Our Open Appeal to Recover 876 BNB
By Riftn Team,
Dear Binance, BNB Chain, and the wider crypto community,
This is an open appeal from thousands of regular retail investors and one of the most active builder communities in the industry.
Together, we have 876 BNB, currently worth over $600,000, stuck in a bugged contract. The Binance Pioneer Burn Program was created to help recover lost BNB through its quarterly burn. Our contract meets every criterion for this program.
We meet every criterion
- The tokens are BNB, or supported via the Binance "Token Canal" project. ✅
- The BNB was sent to a BEP20 contract where anyone can easily verify it is unrecoverable. You can check the old pool on BscScan. ✅
- It was an honest mistake, well above the $1,000 minimum needed for the Pioneer Burn. We did our due diligence, including a $25,000 CertiK audit to avoid contract issues. Binance launched the program for situations just like ours and has already recovered similar amounts, such as its first-ever Pioneer Burn of 867 BNB. ✅
Early adopters, just like the program says
In its announcement, Binance says the program is designed to help early adopters just like us. We brought many innovations to BNB Chain, including new tokenomics that generated tens of millions of dollars in on-chain volume.
- Our token rose close to 100,000% from launch to peak.
- We shared $1,000,000 in revenue with our holders.
- We used $2,000,000 of BNB to buy back and burn our own token.
All of this is verifiable on-chain at riftn.com/stats.
Years of trying
We have spent years going back and forth with BNB Chain developers, PancakeSwap chefs and Binance customer support. Support chat could never get us past the gatekeeper.
Everyone expressed a willingness to help and confirmed the BNB remains unrecoverable. They also acknowledged that we meet all the criteria for the Pioneer Burn Program, yet no resolution ever came.
Our public appeal
This is our public appeal to help us achieve final BNB recovery through the program Binance created for exactly this purpose. Binance, BNB Chain and CZ have built a community-focused brand with a user-centric ethos. By getting our story out there, we believe a leading member of the Binance or BNB Chain team will recognise our situation and help us reach a resolution.
What comes next
We are finishing our rebrand and contract migration. With the BNB recovered, we would be in a much better position to launch our new token and refill our liquidity pools with BNB. We are excited to be pioneers once again, this time on the new high-performance BNB Chain L1.
It is our sincere hope this message finds the right pair of eyes, leading to another successful recovery story through the Pioneer Burn Program.
Thank you from all of us here in the Riftn community.
How you can help
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Recovery is subject to Binance reviewing and approving our case.