Hello Marcus,
Thank you for your response, but we are in disagreement with this issue. The token contract has everything to do with the loss of my tokens, because the smart contract address is listed on the API3 site, as an official contract for the organization. So, someone from your organization had to create it, and knows what’s going on with it. Unless, your organization allows just anyone to post smart contract addresses to your site. I agree I erroneously sent my tokens to the wrong contract, but that does not mean that they are lost. That would go against the very idea of the blockchain concept. If the basis of the blockchain is to be a “public ledger”, then that would mean there is a record of where the coins are at this moment. I think it best for you to disabuse yourself of the idea, that I am just a layperson using “Etherscan” to figure out what happened in this situation. I am certified as a Cryptocurrency Investigator, and am not using “Etherscan”. I am using a blockchain forensic tool used by the Government and law enforcement agencies to track down financial criminal activity on blockchains.
I find it disheartening, the lack of effort that you have put into helping resolve this issue. When I first mentioned the problem to you. You quickly responded with a generic brush off answer “if you manually sent your tokens to that contract, they are gone. Please never send tokens manually to any of the API3 contracts, instead use the dashboard to deposit your tokens if you would like to stake.”. Which is NOT really true, is it? As the tokens were “Never” lost , just sent to the wrong address. Later, after further discussion you stated that “As for your previous inquiry that I addressed in April: You have sent your tokens to the API3 DAO governance contract (0x6dd655f10d4b9E242aE186D9050B68F725c76d76). There is nothing we can do about your lost tokens, unfortunately. I think the reason for that is that this address does not have a withdraw function, so any tokens sent to this address can’t be revived.”. Then in a later correspondence you sent a contradictory response stating the funds “HAD” been withdrawn. “If you look at Etherscan, you can see that you have sent your API3 tokens directly to this wallet. The problem lies on your side. Only you are able to figure out why you sent your tokens to this address, and whom it belongs to. It’s worth to mention that the tokens have been withdrawn from this wallet just minutes after the deposit, so it seems like their arrival was expected.”. Which brings us back to my initial inquiries.
Per the diagram, when I initiated the smart contract “0x0b38210ea11411557c13457d4da7dc6ea731b88a”, it triggered the event to have the API3 tokens sent from my wallet to the Adress Hash “0xb0f7bfd11bacd0df08c0ba782b3ec9e4f19aa2a7”. At this point, there appears to be an interaction with Coinbase “0x0b38210ea11411557c13457d4da7dc6ea731b88a” (as if the tokens were sold, or sent for hold) under transaction hash “0x27e9bad919230d9b0f17a9890065b037f767ce7543c2325aad7d323bfeb07d2d”. But, this is where I need to do some further research, or have one of my more experienced cryptocurrency associates assist me. Regardless, the basis of my inquiries has been… Who owns the smart contract “0x0b38210ea11411557c13457d4da7dc6ea731b88a” ? The owner/creator of the smart contract would know the functionality of it, and why they would be interacting with Coinbase. Which contradicts your previous statements, that the funds were in accessible.
At this point, I have lost confidence in your ability to assist me, and do not wish to discuss this matter with you further… If there is no one else at your organization that can provide the assistance I am requesting. That is fine. I will locate the coins under my own efforts, and will discuss my experience with Messari and a few other crypto news agencies, to have them advise the general public of scenarios like this.
Have a Great Day,
JDub
