The crypto industry is rallying to recover funds stolen in the $1.5 billion Bybit hack, with exchanges freezing nearly $43 million just two days after the attack. A coordinated effort among centralized and decentralized platforms has led to the swift blacklisting of hacker-linked addresses,

Bybit has returned to a 1:1 backing of client assets and has fully closed the “ether gap” it faced after an unprecedented $1.4 billion hack hit the exchange late Friday.

Ben Zhou, Bybit's CEO, said that the hack had affected around 401,000 Ethereum and sparked a surge in withdrawal requests.