[Defunct NFT Lending Platform Parallel Finance Charges Non-Technical Users $500 'Fee' to Withdraw Assets] According to a report by Protos, the defunct NFT lending platform Parallel Finance is charging users a $500 fee to help them withdraw assets from the platform. After Parallel Finance ceased support for its NFT lending product following a six-month notice period, over $800,000 worth of 'blue-chip' NFTs remain locked in its smart contracts. Since the platform's front-end support has been discontinued, non-technical users are unable to manually retrieve their tokens, and the Parallel team is charging a hefty fee to assist them in withdrawing their assets. 0xQuit from Yuga Labs highlighted this predicament on X and shared a step-by-step guide for manually withdrawing assets using the Etherscan blockchain explorer.