TOKI says its cross-chain bridge will be discontinued by the end of January, and urged users to withdraw liquidity and close any remaining positions during the wind-down. In its official notice, TOKI said most major functions will be turned off, including transfers, deposits, TOKI Rewards, and TOKI Points, while withdrawals and certain buyback-related actions will remain available longer to give users time to complete necessary steps.
The detailed timeline published in the project’s Medium announcement says transfers and deposits become unavailable on January 29 at 23:59 UTC, followed by a final distribution of TOKI Rewards and TOKI Points on January 30. The same notice sets a buyback instruction update for January 29, and a buyback window starting February 6 (time to be confirmed) that ends March 5, when the TOKI withdrawal user interface will be closed. The full timeline and rationale are described in the official post, Important Notice: TOKI Cross-Chain Bridge Sunset.
Bridge shutdowns are a high-risk period because they concentrate user actions into a short window, when support channels get noisy and attackers have the easiest time pushing phishing and impersonation links. When liquidity and bridge routes begin to sunset, funds can become stranded by missed deadlines, misunderstood steps, or last-minute contract risk events.
A shutdown is also when exploit attempts can spike, since users may be rushing to move assets across routes that are about to be disabled. Even without a direct exploit, operational friction can create losses, like failed cross-chain messages, delayed finality, or incomplete exits from pools.
TOKI’s public timeline makes the operational cutoff clear: transfers and deposits stop first, and that date effectively defines the end of normal bridge usage. Users relying on specific routes should treat the January 29, 23:59 UTC cutoff as the functional deadline for moving funds through the standard interface.
The later phase centers on withdrawals and buybacks rather than bridging. TOKI said liquidity withdrawals and buyback of already distributed points and rewards will remain available for longer, and it also said that even after the user interface is closed, the smart contracts are expected to remain deployed on-chain, allowing users to withdraw directly from contracts. That design choice reduces the odds of funds being permanently stranded, but it increases the importance of using verified contract addresses and correct transaction methods during the final phase.
During sunsetting, “migration” links are one of the most common attack surfaces. Any site or form asking for wallet connection or signatures should be treated as untrusted unless it is posted directly from TOKI’s official channels and matches the published withdrawal path described on toki.finance and in the Medium sunset notice.
The Medium notice also draws a line between interface availability and contract availability. Users should assume that the UI closing date is not the same as contract disappearance, while still recognizing that a UI shutdown can make safe withdrawal harder for less technical users. That tradeoff is why many shutdown periods become scam-heavy, even if the underlying contracts remain callable.
TOKI’s announced wind-down compresses bridge risk into a tight, time-bound window, with transfers and deposits halting on January 29 at 23:59 UTC and a longer tail for withdrawals and buyback-related actions. The safest outcomes typically come from early exits, strict link verification through official channels, and careful on-chain execution once the interface begins to phase out.
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