A stunning twist in Binance’s $6.3 billion case: a small Ethereum reorg blocked the hackers’ money-laundering route.
On October 31, an Ethereum single-block reorg made a 10 ETH deposit vanish, but THORChain had already credited it, resulting in an extra 10 ETH refund. This triggered an emergency halt, stopping swaps across 10 chains, including BTC, ETH, and SOL. Chainalysis put it plainly: a happy accident that slowed North Korean hackers’ laundering of Binance’s stolen funds.
Coincidentally, the FBI was pressuring node operators that same day to block the related addresses. But the founder stood firm: “We can’t shut it down. If we do, the experiment in neutral settlement is over.”
A bug saved the day—and exposed the toughest question: do you think THORChain should cooperate with freezes?
#THORChain #币安 #黑客 #Cross-chain
On October 31, an Ethereum single-block reorg made a 10 ETH deposit vanish, but THORChain had already credited it, resulting in an extra 10 ETH refund. This triggered an emergency halt, stopping swaps across 10 chains, including BTC, ETH, and SOL. Chainalysis put it plainly: a happy accident that slowed North Korean hackers’ laundering of Binance’s stolen funds.
Coincidentally, the FBI was pressuring node operators that same day to block the related addresses. But the founder stood firm: “We can’t shut it down. If we do, the experiment in neutral settlement is over.”
A bug saved the day—and exposed the toughest question: do you think THORChain should cooperate with freezes?
#THORChain #币安 #黑客 #Cross-chain
