Forebit is offline. forebit.io has been unreachable since on or about 3 August 2026 and, as of 18 September 2026, displays an FBI seizure banner; as of 18 September 2026 we found no DOJ or FBI announcement naming Forebit.
Forebit was a hosted crypto wallet and processor rather than a storefront. Shoplio is a live storefront platform with crypto checkout built in and automatic withdrawals to a wallet you control; start free and the migration page explains how a move works.
Offline since on or about 3 August 2026. On 18 September 2026, forebit.io, docs.forebit.io and support.forebit.io served the "Seized by the Federal Bureau of Investigation" page. Registry delegation is still the operator's Cloudflare nameservers; whois updated 26 August 2026; as of 18 September 2026 we found no DOJ or FBI release naming Forebit.
Sources: BlackHatWorld thread, opened 2 August 2026 · Shoplio DNS, whois and HTTP check, 18 September 2026 09:15 UTC
No percentage could be verified. Pre-outage marketing described a "non-custodial" Forebit-hosted wallet with zero network and withdrawal fees, no monthly fees and no transaction minimums. The pricing page now shows the banner.
Source: forebit.io/pricing (search-engine snippet; page now shows the banner)
On 2 August 2026 a thread opened on BlackHatWorld reporting that Billgang, Antistock, Sellpass, Forebit and Hoodpay had become unreachable, and that by 3 August their domains answered with fbi.seized.gov nameservers. The posters describe the five as one connected operation, which the operators had reportedly denied, and report five- and six-figure balances they could no longer access.
Forebit is the piece of the group that posters single out. Its wallets were marketed as non-custodial, and BlackHatWorld posters report that those were the wallets whose funds appeared under new "wallet_compacted" addresses for which they held no keys. Posters also relay that the operators cited a "security breach affecting Forebit" as one explanation before the sites went dark. Both are forum accounts, reported as such.
Whether any law-enforcement action took place has not been established. On 18 September 2026 the registries still delegated all five domains to the operators' own Cloudflare nameservers, and the whois records had been updated after the outage. We found no Department of Justice or FBI release naming any of the five as of 18 September 2026. The banner is what the domains display, not a confirmed seizure. Posters on BlackHatWorld read the sequence as an exit scam; that is their interpretation, reported as theirs.
Source: Shoplio DNS, whois and HTTP check, 18 September 2026 09:15 UTC
The full timeline, and what is and is not established about the five platforms, is in the August 2026 guide.
Forebit was a crypto wallet and payment processor. Its column is last-known information; Shoplio's column describes what the platform does today.
| Area | Forebit | Shoplio |
|---|---|---|
| Fees | Not verified: marketing claimed zero network, withdrawal and monthly fees. | Free $0, Pro $19/mo, Enterprise $69/mo. Withdrawal fee 5% on Free, 3% on Pro and Enterprise, charged when you withdraw. No platform fee per order; orders are credited net of the gateway's own commission. |
| Payments | Crypto wallet and processor with card-to-crypto (per search snippets); coins not verified. | Crypto through Cryptomus or OxaPay (one gateway per shop, switched by the owner); 25+ cryptocurrencies at checkout; payouts in BTC, ETH, LTC, USDT, USDC, SOL, BNB, TRX, DOGE, TON, GRAM, XMR and XRP. |
| Custody and payouts | Marketed as non-custodial; posters report funds moved to addresses without merchant keys. | Balance held on the platform until withdrawn. Auto-withdrawal sweeps anything above your USD threshold to your own wallet; manual minimum $1; owner-only by default. |
| Migration | Not applicable: a wallet and processor, not a storefront. | Nothing to import from a wallet. A store that used Forebit for payments is rebuilt on a free Shoplio account with crypto checkout included. |
| Delivery | Not applicable. | Stock-based delivery of keys, accounts and files held as stock items per product. Free: 20 products, 2,000 stock items each; Pro and Enterprise: unlimited. |
| Telegram bots | Not applicable. | Merchant notification bot (sales, restocks, low stock, tickets), a Tickets bot, and a customer Store bot (/products, /buy, /orders, /balance). Pro feature. |
Each point below describes something the platform does, including the one you may not want to hear.
Shoplio is not non-custodial. A paid order credits a balance held in the platform's gateway wallets (Cryptomus and OxaPay) until you withdraw it, computed per currency and gateway as paid orders minus withdrawals. The rest of this list is about keeping that window short.
Set a USD threshold ($10 to $1,000,000) and a wallet address per currency; a poller sweeps anything above it to your wallet, with per-network minimums of $10 for BTC and $20 for ETH and ERC-20 tokens. Manual minimum $1. GRAM is manual only.
Cryptomus and OxaPay are both supported, each with signed webhooks and a payment poller that catches any confirmation a webhook missed. A shop uses one gateway at a time: if it is down, the owner switches the shop to the other in Settings > Store Configuration. Checkout is not switched automatically.
Only the owner can withdraw. Where team withdrawal access is enabled on the platform, a team admin gets it only through a grant the owner confirms with password and email 2FA code, after a cool-off delay, revocable at any time; every co-owner withdrawal is reported to the owner (in-app, email, Telegram) and audited. Payout wallets, API keys, shop deletion and stock clearing stay owner-only.
Email-code 2FA covers login, turning 2FA on or off, and granting team withdrawal access. There is no separate 2FA challenge on each withdrawal.
Withdrawals cannot be created, and auto-withdrawal settings cannot be changed, from an admin impersonation session — the platform's support tooling is locked out of the money paths.
5% on Free, 3% on Pro and Enterprise, charged at withdrawal; there is no platform fee per order. Orders are credited at the amount the gateway actually delivers, net of the gateway's own commission, on both Cryptomus and OxaPay (for OxaPay, about 1.5% on orders created after 2 July 2026).
Shoplio's importer reads the Sellpass and Antistock APIs. Both hosts now serve the banner, so an API import is not possible today, and there is no importer for Billgang, Sellix, Hoodpay or Forebit. A move means a free account and a rebuilt catalogue; the migration page lists what can be carried over and how to reach us.
Yes. Forebit has been unreachable since on or about 3 August 2026. On 18 September 2026 forebit.io, its docs and its support host displayed an FBI seizure banner.
Not established. The domain displays an FBI banner, but the registry still delegates forebit.io to the operator's own nameservers, the whois record was updated after the outage, and as of 18 September 2026 we found no DOJ or FBI announcement naming Forebit.
It was marketed that way. Posters on BlackHatWorld report that funds in those wallets appeared under new addresses for which they held no keys. We cannot verify either claim; a wallet whose keys the operator can rotate is, in practice, custodial.
No, and we say so. Your balance is held in the platform's gateway wallets until you withdraw. What Shoplio offers instead is a short window: auto-withdrawal above a threshold you set (from $10) to a wallet address only the owner can change, a $1 manual minimum, owner-only withdrawals by default, and no withdrawals from admin impersonation sessions.
We could not verify a rate. The marketing described zero network and withdrawal fees and no monthly fees; the pricing page now shows the banner.