TechFlow news, on January 13, Huobi HTX issued a statement regarding the Flow (FLOW) project team's unilateral asset transfer. Huobi HTX stated that on December 27, 2025, due to a protocol-level vulnerability in the Flow network, a large amount of FLOW was illegally minted. After the incident, the platform proactively contacted the project team to verify whether any anomalies existed and actively cooperated with risk mitigation and on-chain tracking efforts. Meanwhile, its risk control and monitoring systems continuously tracked suspicious fund flows and imposed restrictions on identifiable hacker-related assets, making every effort to prevent these assets from further entering the market and safeguarding the overall interests of token holders. However, without sufficient communication with exchanges and users, the Flow project team unilaterally initiated an "Isolated Recovery" plan, using protocol-level privileges to forcibly transfer FLOW assets held in centralized exchange addresses—including Huobi HTX—and planned to burn them on January 30, 2026.
Huobi HTX emphasized that the assets being forcibly transferred and scheduled for destruction include substantial amounts of FLOW legitimately acquired by ordinary users through genuine market transactions. The actions taken by the Flow project team seriously violate the principles of decentralization and clear property rights, set a harmful precedent for industry-wide asset security boundaries, and severely infringe upon the legitimate asset rights of both the platform and its users. Huobi HTX calls on the Flow project team to uphold the spirit of decentralization, respect the lawful rights and interests of users and exchanges, clearly distinguish between illegally minted tokens and legitimate holdings, publish a complete and auditable post-incident analysis, and resolve outstanding issues through constructive dialogue rather than unilateral technical measures.
