ZIL Withdrawals Frozen: Why Your Zilliqa Balance Is Stuck After the Hard Fork

Your ZIL sits on an exchange, the hard fork of September 2, 2026 has gone through, and you still cannot withdraw anything. This is not a fault in your account and not a sign that something has been lost: the hard fork was the protocol's step, reopening deposits and withdrawals is your exchange's step. The two do not happen on the same day. On September 5, 2026, three days after the fork, we queried the public interfaces of three of the ten trading venues involved. At all three, ZIL deposits and withdrawals were halted at that point. At one of the three, trading was running normally at the same time. This article tells you why that is, what you can do right now, what you are better off avoiding, and what you are waiting for if you hold your ZIL in self-custody. Why you still cannot withdraw your ZIL after the hard fork A hard fork is a rule change in a blockchain's protocol that every node has to adopt, because only the new rule applies afterwards. The Zilliqa hard fork of September 2 did one single thing: it moved the ZIL balances of a first group of ten exchange partners from their old legacy addresses to their Zilliqa EVM addresses. Zilliqa describes this step as a protocol-level...