How many ADA are lost in Milkomeda? Forever?

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It has happened quite regularly that people are using EVM deposit addresses from a CEX in a wallet app supporting Milkomeda (Nami, sometimes even Eternl, although the warning is huge there). That does not work. The CEXes warn that you need to use the right address for the right network.

The wallet app then creates a transaction sending the ADA to Milkomeda’s bridge with the EVM target address in the metadata. The owner of that address could send them back, but the owner is the CEX. It would require someone who has access to the private keys to import them in Metamask (or Flint) and follow the steps at: https://docs.milkomeda.com/cardano/for-end-users/unwrapping-assets/ CEXes will most probably rarely do that (and it also would require to first explain to the first-level support what you even want from them before it reaches someone who could decide that in the first place).

Just from the cases I stumbled upon here and elsewhere, I could find:

Obviously, each wallet app implementing Milkomeda should make the warning before executing such transactions really big.

But I’m also wondering: How much of Milkomeda’s locked ADA are these accidental “deposits”? Is there really no way they could offer to transfer them back? If the receiver did not touch them for months, would that be indication enough that this was honestly a mistake? Or could they at least talk to the CEXes and offer them an easy way to transfer back so that the users (who often only half understand what they did wrong) do not all have to try to explain to support what they want?

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Would be really awesome if theres a way to help these peoples.

I think @SebastienGllmt was active in the forum (long time ago).

I have tagged him so that he can give his opinion.

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Hi,

I make the same error :smiling_face_with_tear: .
I sent 297 ADA from Nami to Binance BSC wallet :frowning: .

Now my ADA are stuck in the Milkomeda Network, i tried 3 times asking to binance support service, with no success, they said me that until Milkomeda will not be supported in BSC they can’t help me.

So, i think that my ADA will be stuck forever and that’s is incredible…
Maybe the only way to do that is knowing personally some employees of binance asking him to help me.

After this problem i hope that Cardano will not grow up anymore :smiling_face_with_tear: