Poloniex
Exchange that listed Ethereum Classic days after the DAO fork, froze stolen ETC, listed CLAMs, and was owned by Circle from 2018 to 2019.
The wiki's angle: an exchange listing decided early whether a minority chain had a market — for ETC in 2016, as for the Bitcoin forks that announced exchange snapshots in 2017–18.[1][6]
Ethereum Classic
The Ethereum Classic history page records “Poloniex Lists ETC” on 23 July 2016 as “The largest Ethereum exchange signals long-term support for the original chain”[1]. Wikipedia says that on 10 August 2016 the Robin Hood Group sent 2.9 million stolen ETC to Poloniex, “86% was frozen by Poloniex”, and “On 30 August 2016, Poloniex returned the ETC funds to the RHG”[2]. In September 2016 Poloniex delisted DAO trading pairs[3]. See Ethereum Classic[1].
Other listings and owners
The CLAM announcement thread advertised “CLAM added to Poloniex for Margin Trading!”[4]. Circle bought Poloniex in February 2018 for $400 million and sold it to an investment firm in October 2019[5]. Poloniex's founding date and later history are not sourced here[5].
References
- secondaryEthereum Classic, “History” timeline, ethereumclassic.org (entry of 26 Jul 2022) [archived]
- secondaryWikipedia, “Ethereum Classic” [archived]
- secondaryWikipedia, “The DAO” [archived]
- primarySuperClam, “[ANN][CLAM] CLAMs, Proof-Of-Chain, Proof-Of-Working-Stake, a.k.a. “Clamcoin””, Bitcointalk topic 623147 (24 May 2014) [archived]
- secondaryWikipedia, “Circle Internet Group” (the “Poloniex” article redirects here) [archived]
- primaryBitcoin Pay website, btceasypay.com (Wayback Machine copy, 1 Feb 2018)