By Isaac • June 29, 2026 9:17 am •
Loopring said on June 29, 2026 that it is sunsetting the Loopring DEX, and trading services stopped immediately.
This was one of Ethereum’s earliest zkRollup projects. The team admitted it never had a virtual machine and never reached meaningful adoption.
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The Loopring token and the project’s other infrastructure are a separate matter. The shutdown here is the decentralized exchange.
The most important detail for anyone who held funds inside the protocol is the exit. Loopring said a smart contract upgrade will return all remaining user balances to whitelisted addresses, and users will not need to pay gas fees or take any manual action.
— Loopring💙 (@loopringorg) June 28, 2026
That fund-return mechanic is the
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