The unlucky trader paid 31.22 ETH, worth $112,745 while trading on the Defi platform Pulsechain.
Whale Alert first shared the news on X (formerly Twitter), with the transaction occurring 14 hours before ETH was trading at $3,611.56.
31 #eth (112,745 USD) fees were paid for a single transaction! https://t.co/kmsspdfdy9
– Whale Alert (@whale_alert) July 18, 2025
Traders will try to refund
The unlucky trader contacted an Ethereum Validator named TitanBuilder via on-chain messaging. These blockchain messages can be viewed on the Ethereum Network.
in messagethe trader sent the gas fee recipient “Help! I sent a buggy wallet that sent this deal on Ethereum on behalf of Parse Shane.
The trader states that his wallet is a buggy and the transactions are processed on the Ethereum network instead of the Parsechen network. Pulsechain uses Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM), so transactions are valid for both Pulsechain and Ethereum.
Such human error occurs because traders have to choose to pay ETH fees or native coins for the network. In this case, it is PLS, a native coin from Pulsechain, based on Coingecko’s data. Meanwhile, ether is trading at $3,525.88.
Taken by Conor Grogan, director of Coinbase x He then urged Ethereum Balidator TitanBuilder to return the funds to traders. He writes, “Be firm with this poor man and farm good karma.” Grogan also said 31 ether coins have been transferred to the crypto exchange wallet. This appears to be an automatic transaction.
Grogan said he spends his free time on X helping users find lost funds or unclaimed airdrops. Last month, Grogan said over the past few years, over 50 people have helped recover more than $10 million with lost ether or unclaimed airdrops. He was also able to recover more than $3 million belonging to the Crypto Exchange Gate.
4 hours ago, Ethereum Validator TitanBuilder I refunded the trader and sent him 29.5295 ETH, worth $103,511.61. Validator wrote to X: “We have refunded 100% of our block profit to the user.”
