Bybit’s $1.4 billion hack, the largest in crypto history, might have unexpected implications for Ethereum. As the exchange moves to recover, could this be a bullish catalyst for ETH?

Bybit CEO Ben Zhou announced that the exchange has fully recovered its Ethereum (ETH) reserves following a massive $1.5 billion exploit on February 21. He confirmed that a new audited Proof of Reserves (POR) report will soon be released to prove that client assets are once again backed 1:1.

Bybit has returned to a 1:1 backing of client assets and has fully closed the “ETH gap” it faced after an unprecedented $1.4 billion hack hit the exchange. Address activity suggests more than $400 million were purchased through over-the-counter trading, with another $300 million brought directly from exchanges.