Hi gang, while attempting to withdraw my loan of alETH to Optimism it appears it was sent to one of your smart contracts internally rather than my wallet address. I'm currently out half an ETH and could really use some help in 1) in getting it back and 2) making sure this doesn't happen to others in future.
Wasn't fully clear on purpose of Transmuter initially. After taking out my loan I was attempting to figure out how to remove it back to my Brave wallet. Thought I could change it to WETH in the transmuter if I went through the steps. It was after Vaults... seemed like it made sense as the next step of the process.
Deposited my just-loaned alETH into the Van Helmont Transmuter - 0.499 alETH now visible in the 2nd "withdraw" column
Tried to use the withdraw button to take it out - it failed. Hours later after work I went back to figure it out.
Realized my mistake and converted it back to alETH - 0.499 alETH now visible in the first "deposit" column again
Went to Swap in order to bridge it elsewhere. 0.499alETH was visible on Ethereum Mainnet. Clicked Max and selected bridging to Optimism.
Transaction failed once with an error message about gas. Checked gas, saw I had enough, figured the network was just busy.
Tried again, same error message. Checked which network I was on, reloaded the page, tried a third time. Transaction confirmed & successful.
Added alETH to my Brave wallet as it wasn't previously linked. Waited for it to show up. Realized it was weird it didn't ask me about adding the alETH token... and nothing arrives in my wallet.
Checked Etherscan and found the transaction that I thought was bridging my funds from from the Ethereum Network to Optimistic Ethereum (0x159d783591d2e746a3CC29A2956c738C68f51979) actually was actually somehow talking to another Alchemix smart contract (0x362fA9D0bCa5D19f743Db50738345ce2b40eC99f) - this happened at Txn Hash 0x2e1cb72cc784b9cc00210edf49f8b5bbcb957faf6a43bf9312f632eec9a8f563.
Digging deeper into this hash, it appears it sent my 0.492 ETH to a null address????????
Is this a burn address? Dear god please let it not be a burn address. PLEASE HELP 😢
It'd be one thing if I copy/pasted the wrong address to send to. But that step in the Swap module didn't even give me that option - why wouldn't I have assumed it was just going to bridge to Optimism in the wallet I had connected at the time? Can anyone shed any light here? Thanks so much in advance.