{"id":2744,"date":"2020-09-23T20:47:45","date_gmt":"2020-09-23T18:47:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/satt-token.com\/blog\/?p=2744"},"modified":"2020-09-23T20:47:45","modified_gmt":"2020-09-23T18:47:45","slug":"whatever-happened-with-kucoin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/satt-token.com\/blog\/archives\/2744","title":{"rendered":"WHATEVER HAPPENED WITH KUCOIN???"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sep 24, 2020 Update: Our dispute with KuCoin has been resolved as they have refunded us fully as initially agreed. At the same time they have also arranged for deposit withdrawals for our token holders who have made trading deposits on KuCoin. Kindly be reminded to complete all withdrawals by <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">18:00 on Oct 1, 2020 (UTC+8).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We are glad that this matter has been resolved. Once again we thank our community for your support! Currently BW Exchange is open for SATT\/USDT trading as will ProBit Exchange tomorrow.\u00a0 SaTT to the moon! \ud83d\ude80<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">**********************<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Over here at SaTT we were all over the moon when we had <\/span><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">SEVEN exchanges<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> lined up for our token listing. It was the fruit of months and months of hard work.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We happily announced the first two last Friday, KuCoin and Uniswap:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/press-releases\/satt-announces-listing-on-leading-crypto-exchanges-kucoin-and-uniswap\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/press-releases\/satt-announces-listing-on-leading-crypto-exchanges-kucoin-and-uniswap<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Announced the third exchange BW.com yesterday:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bitcoinist.com\/satt-smart-advertising-token-third-exchange-listing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/bitcoinist.com\/satt-smart-advertising-token-third-exchange-listing\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And today, we announced our fourth exchange:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/smart-advertising-token-satt-reveals-probit-as-next-exchange-listing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/smart-advertising-token-satt-reveals-probit-as-next-exchange-listing<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As our community, you have been with us through our journey as we worked hard to achieve all the different milestones on our roadmap. Listing our token for trading was definitely one that we were very much looking forward to.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When KuCoin took down the announcement for our listing today, it was a major blow to us. Why? Because as most of you know, getting listed on the better exchanges is a long and arduous process, one that we labored through because that is our commitment to you.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Let\u2019s look at the KuCoin listing process:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/support.kucoin.plus\/hc\/en-us\/articles\/360003229494-How-to-List-a-Coin-on-KuCoin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/support.kucoin.plus\/hc\/en-us\/articles\/360003229494-How-to-List-a-Coin-on-KuCoin<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>SaTT has passed ALL 8 stages of the KuCoin listing process<\/b><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Submit Application: PASSED<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Requirements: PASSED<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Info Providing: PASSED<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">KYC: PASSED<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Listing Date Confirmation: PASSED<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Contract Signing and Payment: DONE<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Testing: PASSED<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">PR announcement, SNS posts (Listing Alive): PASSED\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How is it that, after the ENTIRE listing process has been completed, KuCoin cancels the deposit openings?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The reason that KuCoin gave us was this:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">SaTT Smart Contract audit has some <\/span><b>low risk issues.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Which makes baloney sense to us because low risk means<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> low risk<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. In fact, our security audit by premiere security company John Wick gave us a <\/span><b>PASS<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and issued us our security audit certificate and report which we are happy to <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/14-mjUVIIcTHCXWaCEKDuWlG8GcB4eJSl\/view?usp=sharing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">share<\/a> with you:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/johnwick.io\/verify\/7bf7b1d437d6cac16434941c121919b7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/johnwick.io\/verify\/7bf7b1d437d6cac16434941c121919b7<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2745\" src=\"https:\/\/satt-token.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/John-Wick-Certificate_SaTT-Security-Audit.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1132\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/satt-token.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/John-Wick-Certificate_SaTT-Security-Audit.jpeg 800w, https:\/\/satt-token.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/John-Wick-Certificate_SaTT-Security-Audit-212x300.jpeg 212w, https:\/\/satt-token.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/John-Wick-Certificate_SaTT-Security-Audit-724x1024.jpeg 724w, https:\/\/satt-token.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/John-Wick-Certificate_SaTT-Security-Audit-768x1087.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">See the Chinese words in green? <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u901a<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u8fc7<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">means PASS in Chinese!<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Here are more details:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2746\" src=\"https:\/\/satt-token.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/John-Wick-SaTT-Audit-Report.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"943\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/satt-token.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/John-Wick-SaTT-Audit-Report.png 800w, https:\/\/satt-token.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/John-Wick-SaTT-Audit-Report-255x300.png 255w, https:\/\/satt-token.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/John-Wick-SaTT-Audit-Report-768x905.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We simply cannot understand the logic behind KuCoin\u2019s actions. What is the logic behind their compliance standards. If we passed our security audit why would low risk issues be a problem?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We had to find out. And this is what we discovered.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Currently KuCoin has several projects on their trading platform with low to mid to high security issues.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For example here is one:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.openzeppelin.com\/compound-audit\/?fbclid=IwAR2N3-LUFRvPqMsFYWn_Cyb3PoPUDbXYE9U_smIhJLnSx5PMOGhfEjR8KI8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/blog.openzeppelin.com\/compound-audit\/?fbclid=IwAR2N3-LUFRvPqMsFYWn_Cyb3PoPUDbXYE9U_smIhJLnSx5PMOGhfEjR8KI8<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>There is a staggeringly high total of 40 security threats (2 high, 8 medium and 30 low -risk).<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yet it is trading on KuCoin.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Compare that to our report, where ONLY low risk threats were detected. We will be linking our full <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/14-mjUVIIcTHCXWaCEKDuWlG8GcB4eJSl\/view\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pdf report<\/a> here soon.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We are completely baffled by what KuCoin\u2019s standards are.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Just last week, their CEO referred to SaTT as a \u201ccrypto hidden gem\u201d. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/news\/satt-smart-advertising-token-announces-043400772.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/news\/satt-smart-advertising-token-announces-043400772.html<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Made announcements to their community about our listing:<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2747\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2747\" class=\"img-responsive wp-image-2747 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/satt-token.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/631600346262_.pic_hd.jpg\" alt=\"KuCoin Lists SaTT Token\" width=\"800\" height=\"643\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/satt-token.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/631600346262_.pic_hd.jpg 800w, https:\/\/satt-token.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/631600346262_.pic_hd-300x241.jpg 300w, https:\/\/satt-token.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/631600346262_.pic_hd-768x617.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2747\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">KuCoin Lists SaTT Token<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_2748\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2748\" class=\"img-responsive wp-image-2748 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/satt-token.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/c91fc4cd-a260-4bcd-b62e-e8652246b0a9.jpg\" alt=\"KuCoin Lists SaTT Token\" width=\"500\" height=\"1084\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/satt-token.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/c91fc4cd-a260-4bcd-b62e-e8652246b0a9.jpg 500w, https:\/\/satt-token.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/c91fc4cd-a260-4bcd-b62e-e8652246b0a9-138x300.jpg 138w, https:\/\/satt-token.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/c91fc4cd-a260-4bcd-b62e-e8652246b0a9-472x1024.jpg 472w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2748\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">KuCoin Lists SaTT Token<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I mean, we were already done with Step 8 of their listing process, IT WAS COMPLETE!!!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If they had a problem with the low risk threats in our security audit, this was Step 7. We&#8217;ve passed Step 8. Why are they backtracking now???<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After a heated debate with KuCoin just now, after pointing out all their missteps in this matter, they actually said they would give us a <strong>100% refund<\/strong>. We said we would be fine with the matter if that was the case.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Of the listing fee, 80% was paid in USDT and 20% in SATT.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We sent them our ETH address in good faith and guess what?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They shortchanged 35% of the USDT refund and withheld 30% of the SATT token payment portion. It seems that the KuCoin team had no problem appropriating the USDT funds and keeping a stash of SATT tokens for themselves.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Where is the JUSTICE in this???\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sep 24, 2020 Update: Our dispute with KuCoin has been resolved as they have refunded us fully as initially agreed. At the same time they have also arranged for deposit withdrawals for our token holders who have made trading deposits [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2673,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[139,158,169,181],"class_list":["post-2744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crypto-stories","tag-kucoin","tag-satt","tag-satt-token","tag-token-listing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/satt-token.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/satt-token.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/satt-token.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/satt-token.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/satt-token.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/satt-token.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2744\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/satt-token.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/satt-token.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/satt-token.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/satt-token.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}