PANews reported on October 6 that cross-chain DEX aggregator THORSwap tweeted that illegal funds may have recently flowed through THORChain, especially THORSwap. THORSwap firmly opposes any criminal behavior. Therefore, after carefully evaluating the situation and consulting with consultants, legal advisors and law enforcement agencies, it was decided to temporarily transform the THORSwap front-end interface into maintenance mode to quickly curb any further potential illegal activities. THORSwap will remain in maintenance mode until a more permanent and better solution can be implemented. There are no specific details or further details to share at this time, but we will keep you updated.

The ThorChain browser shows that since October, the accumulated transaction volume of ThorChain has exceeded 1.05 billion US dollars in the past five days. Among them, the transaction volume on ThorChain on October 5 was about 355 million US dollars, a record high. According to the analysis of crypto KOL Tay, in the past four months, more than 50% of the funds exchanged from ETH to ThorSwap router for BTC were stolen funds.

According to previous news, on-chain analyst Ember monitored that FTX attackers have recently transferred out a large amount of ETH and exchanged it for BTC through THORChain cross-chain.