CryptoTicker: Limit Break V2 drains ~530.7 WETH from 911 wallets on Ethereum
By Node Zero
September 25, 2026
An independent CryptoTicker forensic of Limit Break Payment Processor V2 on Ethereum puts about 530.7 WETH drained from 911 wallets—roughly $1.43 million at CoinGecko’s $2,702.88 Ether print timed September 25, 2026, 12:25 UTC—while the outlet’s last check at 12:40 UTC still showed the drain running. That Ethereum-only token tally is the unused desk angle after already-filed Magic Eden / Quit / Blockaid NFT-rescue files: half the wallets lost under 0.1 WETH, and ten wallets alone lost 196 WETH between them.
How the reverse WETH path worked, per CryptoTicker’s transaction walk-through. NFT marketplace offers settle in wrapped Ether, so wallets that listed or bid on Magic Eden’s former EVM rails often left unlimited WETH spending approvals on the Payment Processor. Attackers deployed fresh contracts minting worthless dummy NFTs, then had Payment Processor “buy” those listings on behalf of victim wallets—pulling WETH through the old approval without a new signature. The first WETH drain transaction alone took 281.66 WETH from 25 wallets; by 09:00 UTC CryptoTicker had 522.5 WETH gone, with the latest WETH pull in its window at 12:19 UTC.
Sibling token drains in the same forensic window. CryptoTicker also counted 8,380 USDC from 62 wallets, about 549,000 WILD (~$7,200) from eleven wallets, 12.9 APE on Ethereum, and 7,680 WAPE from 19 wallets on ApeChain in one transaction—proof that any ERC-20 ever approved to the Payment Processor stays exposed. Quit’s public “about 660 WETH” unrecovered figure (~$1.7 million) sits above CryptoTicker’s 530.7 Ethereum-only count; the outlet attributes the gap to missing Polygon/Base analysis and to Quit’s broader risk estimate, not as a second official Loss Ledger.
NFT transfer color without reprinting the white-hat headline. CryptoTicker read 25,299 AcceptOffer/BuyListing events on Ethereum blocks 26,040,040–26,054,436 (Sep 23 12:00 UTC through Sep 25 12:22 UTC) across three matching public nodes, plus 10,041 ApeChain V3 events from Sep 24. It logs 16,117 transfers to Quit’s rescue address on Ethereum and 9,795 on ApeChain versus Quit’s 23,155 NFT rescue claim (LN 9721), noting multi-edition tokens can make event counts diverge from NFT counts. After late morning, other addresses took over zero-price pulls—7,870 transfers from 1,786 wallets in CryptoTicker’s cut—while a 12:22–12:40 UTC follow-up still showed 2,292 more zero-price NFT transfers and another 0.55 WETH.
Hygiene that still matters for collectors. CryptoTicker and Magic Eden both point wallets at Payment Processor V2 0x9A1D00bEd7CD04BCDA516d721A596eb22Aac6834 on Ethereum, Polygon, and Base, plus V3 0x9a1D00000000fC540e2000560054812452eB5366 on ApeChain via Revoke.cash—canceling listings or bumping a master nonce does not clear the approval, and a hardware wallet does not block a right already signed years ago. Do not wrap fresh Ether into WETH while the approval stands. Rescued NFTs, per Quit, return only after owners revoke; CryptoTicker warns scammers will DM fake recovery pages.
Why this is unused Latest News for Sep 25 OC. Magic Eden’s 3,832 white-hat wave is LN 9707, Blockaid’s ~$1.7 million NFT drain is LN 9709, and Quit’s 23,155 / 660 WETH rescue is LN 9721. This tick is CryptoTicker’s independent Ethereum WETH forensic—530.7 WETH / 911 wallets / ~$1.43 million, plus USDC/WILD/WAPE sidecars and a still-running 12:40 UTC check—not a reprint of those NFT-headcount files. Rejected near-echos: Bitget’s $387.5 million bounty and DPRK color (already LN 9739 / 9694), weekly ETF $3.04 billion (LN 9743), SoFi/Mastercard and Fed GENIUS (prior days), and thin Phygitals magazine fluff that could not clear desk 59.
Why Dev & Protocol Pulse 57 plus Latest News 16 (Editor’s Pick already 5/5—no new 13). A node-matched AcceptOffer/BuyListing forensic that separates Ethereum WETH loss from Quit’s NFT rescue totals is unused protocol-risk news for Sep 25 OC. Author is Node Zero for desk 57. Publicize stays off.
What not to invent: that CryptoTicker’s 530.7 equals Quit’s 660, that Polygon/Base WETH totals are disclosed here, that every post-rescue zero-price pull is malicious rather than helper-or-copycat, or a final closed loss ledger while CryptoTicker says the attack was still moving at 12:40 UTC. Stick to CryptoTicker’s attributed counts for the 530.7 WETH / 911 wallets / $1.43 million stack and sibling token drains.
Bottom line: CryptoTicker’s Ethereum forensic puts about 530.7 WETH drained from 911 wallets through lingering Limit Break Payment Processor approvals—unused Dev Pulse news for Sep 25 OC.
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