Black Swan Strikes! $330 Million Dirty Money Ignites Epic XMR Surge
Just saw the alert on-chain, I slammed my palm on the table—hackers these days are even bold enough to use open schemes for money laundering!
3,520 BTC (worth $330 million) were crazily exchanged for XMR through six exchanges in the early morning, directly pushing Monero up by 50%, even the market makers called it professional!
1. Epic Money Laundering Assembly Line
At 3 AM on April 28, a sudden thunderclap erupted on the sleeping blockchain. A certain ancient whale address was completely uprooted, and 3,520 BTC rushed into instant exchanges in 6 batches.
These guys specifically chose the early morning hours when Monero's liquidity was thinnest, smashing 300-500 BTC at a time into the XMR/USDT pool, forcibly driving the price from $289 up to $339, with the K-line spiking straight up like a 90-degree angle.
ZachXBT's tracking chart shows that the dirty money was crazily exchanged on privacy-friendly platforms like ChangeNow and FixedFloat.
The most cunning part was how the hackers played "divide and conquer," breaking down large amounts of BTC into 50-80 each, using the instant exchange feature to complete the entire money laundering process in 30 minutes.
2. The Ice and Fire of Privacy Coins
Technical Domination: XMR's ring signatures + stealth addresses made this $330 million dirty money completely "invisible" on-chain.
Chainalysis boasted last year about being able to track Monero, but this time they were slapped in the face—they haven't published any addresses involved in the case to date.
Compliance Strangulation: Binance and OKX delisted XMR as early as 2024, but the trading volume on decentralized exchanges surged by 300%.
This time, ChangeNow's daily active users surged 5 times, and the regulatory sword of Damocles couldn't even strike the vital spot.
Liquidity Trap: Don't be fooled by XMR's 50% surge in a day; in reality, 90% of the circulating supply is concentrated in the dark web and mixers.
Legitimate exchanges have less than $20 million in depth, and the market makers can control the market with just a slight movement of their fingers.
Follow the turtle to avoid getting lost, stay ahead of on-chain anomalies! Strike in real-time during the next black swan event! Let us see through the market makers' cards and reclaim stolen chips with both principal and interest!
