I remember that the Lazarus hacker group used their platform to launder approximately $238,973 in stolen funds from the Bybit hack. So, was TradeOgre shut down, or is this an exit scam by the exchange?

Website down as of 30th July 2025. https://tradeogre.com/ (down since 18hrs ago | No official announcement yet )

Clicking on the link will take you to Cloudflare but origin server doesn't respond to Cloudflare's requests a.k.a error 522
exit scam

A couple of days ago, my bitcoin deposits were being delayed, but they eventually showed up. That had never happened before, so I assumed they were having problems with their bitcoin node.

Now this happens. So my guess is that it either a DDOS attack or some sort of server maintenance/upgrade. There has been no official announcement from them, however. So who really knows.

From what I observed, all the seized crypto platforms had law enforcement logo plastered on their website, and they tell you exactly it was seized by LE. So I'm leaning less towards this.

I've seen people saying this isn't the first time TradeOgre went down without any announcement. How true is this? I did find redditors complaining it was down a year ago, and looked up their X account for related keywords involving an announcement but nothing came up. It's pretty disrespectful to treat your users that way if so, especially with exchanges going down left and right. Imagine the anxiety.

So at the moment, leaning towards that or exit scam.

I think they might be facing technical issues, as they haven't transferred any assets from their publicly available address. The last outgoing transaction was 2 days ago around the same time the website went down. But it is indeed concerning that they just went offline without any notice or announcement. They hold around 407 BTC in their hot wallet (around $12M as of writing this), $10M AUSDT, $2.581M USDT, and 184.287 ETH ($711.7K). That's a huge amount, though not as much compared to other exchanges. Still, they should make an announcement about what actually happened.

People have been trying to warn everyone for years. 

TradeOgre was run by anonymous individuals, but there is no way it would have been a single person, should be something like a team with a few people in it. So even if something goes wrong with one person, i don't think that should bring operations to a complete halt, except they all lived and moved together, which is very unlikely. I'm still leaning towards an exit scam, until there is new information.

Can you explain, why are you distributing fake screenshot?
Proof: https://www.lazarusbounty.com/en

Another reason it could be down is that the people who run it are protecting the cryptocurrency Tari from being sold off during its rather large pump it has been going thru since 2 nights ago iirc.  I was thinking about selling some Tari and Tradeogre is the only place I know of or have used to trade and deal Tari.  Tari could go up more, but it doesn't help if you have a bunch of people selling it.  

Another reason it could be down is that whenever I actively use anything on the web the masters behind stuff cancel it and ban it.  So it is rather a bad thing if I get involved with anyone they invariably go down as soon as I get on board.  Unless it's stuff I really don't use or like myself and it is just there to antagonize me anyways.  I know it seems like I am not in reality here but I just ramped up my activity buying a lot of Tari just before this happened, and I know for a fact that tari doubled in price just as this started 2 or 3 nights ago.  I could have made a small gain selling it and then buying it at its new low (still up from the atl for this new currency) very easily.  (BTW you can mine Tari it is set to be mined to the tune of 15 billion or so over the next 3 years).

And how does anyone other than wallets get away with not insisting on KYC?  I personally would never do KYC I just don't have any details to share I am a faceless and nameless intelligence or unintelligence if you see it that way I really don't care.  But to not have KYC and just let us trade and do what we want.  I would not be surprized if Google or whoever just took them out of the DNS system.  It is a very corrupted internet.  Hardly works at all anymore.  Really has gotten harder to use search engines to search and phones to play...everything has gotten harder.  Trade Ogre was working well for me.  Yes I noticed the thing where they didn't add my funds right away on the last day or 2 after I made a deposit it took HOURS to get there.  That was unusual.  Dont really know the answers just my observations.

But Tari yall.  Tor and Tari ftw.  Mined or bought.

This particular website is designed to make it easy to conduct a witch-hunt against privacy services just for receiving NK inputs.

It is basically an ultimatum to convert to KYC (and scam users) or we will shut your website down and get you arrested.

Guess who profits from this?

The KYC brokers.