Crypto exchange Huobi delisted the GALA/USDT trading pair on Friday after a wrapped version of the token, pGALA, was temporarily rendered worthless after its issuers found a problem with its bridge code.
Huobi users who bought GALA tokens after the incident saw their coins converted to “pGALA,” named for the soon-to-be-retired version of the GALA token trading on Binance Smart Chain.
In an official statement on its website, Huobi referred to its new version pGALA as a “meme token,” noting that it “is not related to the original GALA token.”
Buyers of the mispriced GALA token on Huobi – including several market-making firms – are “pissed” that their GALA tokens have been converted to Huobi’s version of the pGALA token, according to a person familiar with the matter.
Wow amazing day!
— Painkiller 💩 (@joker_8282) November 4, 2022
I buy $gala 12hour ago at huobi. But huobi said it is pgala.
Suddenly huobi suspended gala/usdt without announcement.
I have some questions. pic.twitter.com/pn3jy1bGws
“Huobi will delist the GALA/USDT pair at 12:30 (UTC) today and rename GALA as pGALA,” the company said in a statement. Trading of the new pGALA/USDT pair on Huobi was halted as of press time.
In a follow-on announcement, Huobi said it would “convert users' pGALA (former GALA) assets that meet the redeeming conditions to GALA (new GALA) assets at 1:1.” It is unclear, however, how holders of any converted GALA tokens would be able to trade their holdings on Huobi without a GALA trading pair.
