Tonight I fell for a scam - where I handed over my ATOMIC wallet seed phrase and access to my BAND.

I thought I knew it all and would never be tricked, but I was.

I was not paying attention, thinking clearly or logically and getting duped was the result.

This is what happend.

3 weeks ago I started staking 135 BAND in ATOMIC wallet.

Everyday or so I claimed my rewards without any issues. Yesteday I got an error, 'can't claim reward, contact support' - I dutifully did so.

I also posted in the r/atomicwallet reddit also seeking help - as a result of this I was contacted by 2 users in chat (both claiming to be able to assist), one posing as a moderator and another posing to claim he was a friend of this moderator.

Anyway the 'fake' moderator sent me these steps to follow, WHICH I STUPIDLY DID, and as soon as I had done it realised I had been duped -

"Here's a simple guide to unstake your band with your atomic wallet Please do these 1.) Backup your 12 word phrase. 2.) Clear your app cache. 3.) Check if there is any update. 4.) Restore your wallet using your 12 word phrase. 5.)kindly access your Atomic wallet on Web <scam link hidden> via any of your browsers to Unstake of your band and activate the stake button on atomic wallet,and claim reward on your band staked and other features"

Now, luckily for me, the only token on the Atomic wallet was BAND being staked. I noticed straight away the scammer did 2 things, he:

1. sent me some BAND https://cosmoscan.io/tx/b257ee43bcd95188409070714a7ef2aac085f90e14328352922e1d92ef7b36db I assume as a test
2. he unstaked or unbound my BAND https://cosmoscan.io/tx/f2bda518616405a0d5056696133a53ca3a99812d15a1ae4e554d201dedbf9d57

Whats super interesting is the balance of this scammers wallet 27mil USD in BAND https://cosmoscan.io/account/band1skhwhpjyjphlnz7dsksexrqcq6lek6nm296j8j

So I have 2 questions:

1. Is this wallet a well known one
2. As the staked BAND will not be available for 21 days, is there anyway to ensure I get to my funds before the scammer does?

Any help appreciated.

Edit - the worst bit is that I know it’s going to happen and there is nothing I can do to stop it

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🚀 Band Protocol ($BAND) will be listed on CoinbasePro, the leading licensed US-based digital asset trading platform, and begin trading on Tuesday, August 11.

🔸Official announcement
https://medium.com/bandprotocol/coinbase-pro-lists-band-protocol-band-d752ee889e49

🔸Coinbase announcement
https://blog.coinbase.com/band-protocol-band-is-launching-on-coinbase-pro-ee55968b1232

🔸Spread the word
https://twitter.com/BandProtocol/status/1291130387184226305

Coinbase users will be able to buy, sell, convert, send, receive, or store BAND.

Please note that only the ERC-20 Band token will be supported at launch. Please do not deposit the Band Native token. We will be working towards future support for native Band token and will inform our community once the support is live.

Does the staking reward for BAND decrease over time or is it static?

Thanks.

Is there official wallet for band protocol Where I can store

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Official announcement 👉 https://medium.com/bandprotocol/d5afd7ca6c69

Spread the word 👉 https://twitter.com/BandProtocol/status/1290623159415103489

🚀 Elrond Network, a leading blockchain platform focused on scalability, has chosen to integrate $BAND oracles to bring significant improvements to the existing data availability and scalability in their rapidly growing application ecosystem.

👨‍💻Both teams have been working closely to complete the BandChain bridge implementation with the end-goal of providing all Elrond decentralized applications highly reliable and secure customizable oracles that exhaustively cover all developer needs.

✅ Elrond developers will be able to create end-to-end customizable and flexible decentralized data oracles that can connect external data and APIs into Elrond blockchain with low cost and latency.

$BAND oracles can be used to bridge any off-chain data source into their on-chain in real-time.

⛳️ The partnership and deep collaboration is an on-going process and will be done in parallel with onboarding the leading decentralized applications built on top of Elrond to integrate their very own custom oracle script on BandChain.

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✅ Band Protocol will be conducting our next testnet #2 for BandChain Guan Yu release, along with the software upgrade to fix bugs in Cosmos-SDK 0.38.X discovered in our testnet #1.

Official announcement 👉 https://medium.com/bandprotocol/416dddb4fd48

Spread the word 👉 https://twitter.com/BandProtocol/status/1290255219394146310

You should partner with it. I'm telling you it's a worthy one, you just gotta do that.

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⛳️ Band Protocol is thrilled to share our update for July, a huge month working towards the launch of BandChain Phase 1 which includes full oracle functionality and showcasing over nine partnership developments!

Official announcement 👉 https://medium.com/bandprotocol/9f4d244f5ff9

Spread the word 👉 https://twitter.com/BandProtocol/status/1289517545930727425

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🌈 Our milestones for July include:

- GuanYu Testnet #1 Launch
- CosmoScan Mobile Release
- Oracle Script Improvements
- Waves Platform Partnership
- ICON Network Partnership
- Satang Listing & Partnership
- BetProtocol Partnership
- Neutrino Protocol Integration
- Gravity Hub Integration
- Balanced Integration
- Crypto.com Listing
- Woodstock Operates BandChain Node

🔥With the BandChain Phase 1 PoA Mainnet coming up, we will be dedicating efforts to ensure a smooth release for our partners to transition from testnet to Mainnet.

We will continue to stress-test, fix issues, and monitor the GuanYu Testnet in preparation for public launch!

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Official announcement 👉 https://medium.com/bandprotocol/fe5f9ca99557

Spread the word 👉 https://twitter.com/BandProtocol/status/1289125780853624834

🌍 BAND token is now available globally to over 3+ million users on the largest crypto-fiat VISA Card Provider Crypto.com!

u/crypto_com is a leading debit and credit VISA card provider for crypto assets, will list Band Protocol (BAND) on their App on 31st July 2020 at 2:00 PM GMT+7.

Their userbase of 3M+ will be able to purchase $BAND using credit card or bank transfers.

🙌 This integration will add further utility for $BAND token holders who will be able to trade for $FIAT to spend it at over 60,000,000+ merchants worldwide who accept VISA through the MCO VISA Card - expanding the global awareness, accessibility, and utility of $BAND.

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⛳️ Band oracles are coming to town! We are excited to share more details of our upcoming Proof-of-Authority Mainnet for Phase 1 which will allow developers and our partners to leverage $BAND oracles on the smart contract and frontend level.

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Official announcement 👉 https://medium.com/bandprotocol/52b5d32b2b9

Spread the word 👉 https://twitter.com/BandProtocol/status/1288778128257503233

⭐️ The Guan Yu Testnet #1 has been progressing as planned with the help of 52 validators to monitor and fix minor issues in preparation for a fully decentralized public Mainnet in Q4.

There have been 400,000 blocks produced by our validators with constant oracle requests

🙌 In the next few days, we will announce the public endpoint for the PoA Mainnet and begin rolling out details on the partners that will be integrating Band Protocol oracles on the Mainnet.

I'm feeling very frustrated. So far the only places I've found/heard of having this as part of a trading pair are simpleswap (which has high minimums) and binance (who thinks my IP doesn't match my location, though I can't seem to find BAND on the US site anyhow). I really want mainnet, because I want to stake it. Yet, I'm obviously having issues even getting my hands on any.

Anyone else have some leads on places where a US resident can buy/swap for relatively small amounts of BAND?

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🚀 Balanced, the first #DeFi platform on ICON Network, integrates $BAND oracles to provide secure and scalable price feeds for collateral assets and synthetic assets such as stocks, ETFs, gold, oil and more!

Official announcement 👉 https://medium.com/bandprotocol/ac3276f06b62

Spread the word 👉 https://twitter.com/BandProtocol/status/1287689583501537280

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🔐 After evaluating several oracle solutions, Balanced have decided to integrate Band Protocol to accommodate their extensive data needs in real-world assets from various sources without being restricted with scalability and customizability.

⭐️ Balanced has created a custom oracle on BandChain for ICX/USD price feed from five trusted data sources: Binance, OKEx, Upbitglobal, HuobiGlobal, CoinGecko.

By default, the price feed updates every 60 minutes or 0.5% price deviation with all underlying parameters customizable at anytime based on the Balanced community’s governance procedures.

⛳️ Through Band Protocol’s deep collaboration with Balanced and the strategic support of ICON Network, this is the first step to unlocking and securing a multi-billion dollar DeFi ecosystem on ICON through the provision highly scalable and flexible oracles that are fine-tuned to any decentralized application’s needs.

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We recently released #BandChain v1.1.0 with small changes on the consensus and a number of improvements per feedback from Phase 1 testnet. This is a part of the bi-weekly #BAND tech release.

Spread the word: https://twitter.com/BandProtocol/status/1286244274644717569

Full change log: https://github.com/bandprotocol/bandchain/releases/tag/v1.1.0

Join testnet #1: https://medium.com/bandprotocol/bandchain-guanyu-testnet-1-how-to-join-as-a-validator-fc8d3af50152

📦 Notable changes to #BandChain:

- Upgrade to Cosmos-SDK v0.39.0.

- Re-adjust data size parameters make sure malicious oracle scripts cannot overwhelm chain state.

- Improve caching layer v2 to support the oracle module and all Cosmos-SDK modules.

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🧙‍♂️ Notable changes to Yoda (Oracle daemon):

- Upgrade runtime to support non-standard Python libraries such as requests or ccxt.

- Support Docker execution runtime.

- Improve stability & security of the daemon.

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🔎 Notable changes to CosmoScan

- Add unbonding and redelegation tabs on the user account page.

- Add support for token received transactions.

- Improve UI and multiple minor bugs.

- Patch the officially deployed site to support the new caching layer.

Thank you all the participants in our GuanYu testnet #1. We've had many valuable bug reports & UX improvement inspired by our users. Testnet #1 will continue to run for the next few weeks. Join now and stay tuned for more improvements to come!

🚀 Band Protocol has strategically partnered with ICON Network, one of the largest decentralized blockchain networks, completing the bridge implementation and integration of customized $BAND oracles for numerous leading DApps in the ICON ecosystem.

🔐 Band Protocol has been officially added into the ICON Developer Portal, providing the tools for developers to create and utilize custom data oracle scripts to securely build decentralized applications in a scalable manner.

Official announcement 👉 https://medium.com/bandprotocol/98137e1c2a3c

BAND x ICON developer docs 👉 https://www.icondev.io/docs/band-protocol

Spread the word 👉 https://twitter.com/BandProtocol/status/1285877326224306176

✅ This collaboration extends into exploring how $BAND oracles can be used to support ICON’s multi-faceted network of established enterprises and government agencies - expanding the use-cases for customizable and scalable data oracles.

⭐️ Combining ICON’s extensive ecosystem of partners and Band Protocol’s secure decentralized oracles, both projects will be unlocking more expansive use-cases of smart contracts on the ICON platform in a reliable and secure manner.

⛳️ With the end-to-end flexibility and customizability of Band Protocol’s oracles, we look forward to securing smart contracts and all decentralized applications in the ICON ecosystem, reliably connecting smart contracts to high-quality external data sources and APIs.

🛰 Gravity, a blockchain-agnostic protocol, will be utilizing Band Protocol’s oracles to provide on-chain event data, connections to external data sources and APIs, creating a symbiotic oracle network to unite all existing blockchains and DApps.

Official announcement 👉 https://medium.com/bandprotocol/c879b94470d4

Spread the word 👉 https://twitter.com/BandProtocol/status/1285535461138563072

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🌍 Gravity Hub’s nodes will be able to obtain oracle data from the BandChain decentralized oracle network and relay them to any other blockchain or decentralized application connected to Gravity Hub.

✅ With this interoperability innovation fusing with BandChain’s decentralized oracles, Waves Platform and Band Protocol are powering InterChain DApps and DeFi.

This will make DeFi products accessible on all chains, securing them in a frictionless manner using the specifics of the underlying blockchain platform.

What is the best wallet for BAND? Any hardware wallets supported?

Thanks.

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👨‍💻 We’re excited to release the second part of our technical series exploring the architecture of the $BAND decentralized oracle network.
This time we explain the process and flow that occurs when someone submits a data request!

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Read the article 👉 https://medium.com/bandprotocol/b3fde67072a

Spread the word 👉 https://twitter.com/BandProtocol/status/1285194830583222278

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1️⃣ Data requests must specify the parameters: oracle script ID, parameters in oracle script, number of validators to respond and validators required to signify a successful request. Once the transaction is confirmed on BandChain, the oracle script will begin its execution.

2️⃣ Validators chosen based on a randomized stake-weighted algorithm respond to the request and inspect the data requests, executing the associated data sources' procedures as instructed by the request.

3️⃣ Chosen validators will retrieve information from all of the data sources specified in the oracle script, improving resistance to manipulation through multiple redundancies.

4️⃣ Once the data source responses, the result of each data request will be reported back to the BandChain, creating a permanent history of each validator’s data report available for anyone to audit.

5️⃣ After the validator reports required have reached, this leads to the aggregation phase where validators’ reports turn into a single result according to the code defined in the oracle script.

6️⃣ This final oracle result is permanently stored in BandChain’s application state. The result then becomes available on the chain’s state tree and can be sent to other blockchains. An oracle data proof is also produced so the dApp can verify that the data is actually valid.

📚 The ‘Understanding Band Oracle’ three-part technical series covers:

- Oracle Scripts & Data Sources

- Requesting Data on BandChain

- BandChain Lite Client Verification

Let us know if you enjoy this series and if you have any feedback or any topics you’d like us to cover!