Cetus requested community support for a protocol upgrade to recover and redistribute $162 million in frozen assets from the exploit on its platform in May 2025, through an on-chain vote.

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We sincerely call on all Sui Validators to kindly support the on-chain voting we recently initiated. This vote would allow users to get back the major portion of their assets back quickly

Cetus also asked the Sui community to support a protocol upgrade to recover the $162 million of frozen funds and return them to their rightful owners.