One of the traders had lost 31.22 ETH in gas fees after buying and then sending over the gas by mistake on PulseChain instead of Ethereum.
The price of ETH at the moment of the error amounted to BTCC 3,611.56, translating into the loss of approximately BTCC 112,745.
A fee of 31 #ETH (112,745 USD) has just been paid for a single transaction!https://t.co/kmsSPDfdy9
— Whale Alert (@whale_alert) July 18, 2025
Through a message on the chain, the trader approached Ethereum validator TitanBuilder. He said that he had a bug in his wallet that sent the transaction to Ethereum rather than PulseChain. The mistake happens because the two networks are compatible since they utilize the Ethereum Virtual Machine.
Buggy Wallet Causes Costly Mistake
The client wanted to pay in the native token of PulseChain, PLS, which sells at only $0.00003014. The transaction was also carried out in Ethereum, which had to be paid using the wallet, but not in the Ethereum currency. It resulted in a huge gas fee that depleted the trader by 31.22 ETH. The erroneous transfer became an attraction on social media, where it was reported by Whale Alert as among the most expensive fee-related mishaps ever seen in recent history.
Help” was the trader’s on-chain message. This happened with a buggy wallet that sent this transaction on Ethereum rather than PulseChain. Could you kindly pay me back the super-high amount of 31.22ETH that this error has resulted in? To me, it is a large sum of money.”
Industry Voices Urge Refund
This drew the interest of one of the Coinbase Directors, Conor Grogan. On X (formerly Twitter), he asked TitanBuilder to refund the user. According to him, the ETH was transferred to an exchange backpack, and this process was probably automatic. Grogan also admitted to spending some of his time helping users get their lost money back, and they have recovered more than 10 million dollars in different cases.
Grogan, in his post, touched on the goodwill factor that TitanBuilder had, which should pay up the money as one way of being fair. Society looked on as the nation crossed its fingers.
Validator Returns 29.53 ETH to User
In response to Grogan’s post, four hours later, validator TitanBuilder returned 29.5295 ETH to the trader, which was worth $103,511.61. When the validator was asked, the refund was confirmed upon X, and the user was restored with 100 percent of the profit on the block.
The traders lost a small amount of their initial money, but they regained the majority. TitanBuilder’s move was applauded in the crypto sphere.
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