After almost 5 months of closed withdrawals HTX and Poloniex opened XMR withdrawals today.

This is meant as a reminder to everybody to never store your coins on a CEX. It's also a reminder to those who have still coins stuck there to withdraw as soon as possible.

We don't know if this is just some crumbs that Justin bought while prices are cheap after the Binance delisting or if they aim to fulfill their obligations permanently. In general HTX and Poloniex have a very bad reputation (borderline scams). So the general take from that episode should be to not use those exchanges at all.

There are much better alternatives in form of regulated CEX or DEX and atomic swaps that make that kind of schemes a thing of the past.