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 likewise to get refunds for his or her misplaced funds. Nevertheless, WEX shut down, too, a 12 months later, the sufferer of inner battle and in-fighting. WEX wallets had been drained of hundreds of thousands of {dollars} value of crypto, CoinDesk reported on the time.