However, in December of 2021, BitMart experienced a security breach which allowed the hacker to acquire tokens from several different projects, including $ALTRUCOIN. Our team quickly froze the contract and withdrew the liquidity to preserve the value of the token. BitMart suggested a contract redeploy during which the community overwhelmingly voted to merge $ALTRUCOIN and $BANKER. This merger resulted in the new version of Altrucoin ($ALTRU), which put the best parts of both projects under one token.