Quickly after BTC-e stopped operations, its successor, WEX, appealed to the BTC-e customers providing to renew buying and selling from their accounts and in addition to get refunds for his or her misplaced funds. Nevertheless, WEX shut down, too, a yr later, the sufferer of inside battle and in-fighting. WEX wallets had been drained of hundreds of thousands of {dollars} price of crypto, CoinDesk reported on the time.