Starkware has agreed to re-enable access to its outdated wallets after temporarily locking users out of $550,000 worth of their own money.

“When 0.12.1 went live, accounts that were not upgraded, became temporarily inaccessible,” tweeted Starknet on Wednesday. “As of today, the upgrade is reenabled, allowing users to immediately regain access to their accounts.”

“For technical reasons, it may take until tomorrow for users of Argent and Braavos to regain access,” the company added.

According to Ana Vukina—a customer support agent for the Ethereum layer-2 wallet Argent—all accounts that users failed to upgrade to Starknet’s latest smart contracts by August 21 were rendered “deprecated” and unusable.

“Over the last year, we have communicated about the need to upgrade your wallet, and that any wallet that did not upgrade by this date would be lost,” Vukina told a disenfranchised Starknet user over Discord on Tuesday.

“This is a network-specific change, not one that we control, unfortunately,” she clarified at the time. “According to Starkware, the wallets that did not upgrade in time will lose their assets.”

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