Ari Redbord
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first heard Feb 2026
last heard 11 May
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It's certainly still happening because of, I think, for two main reasons, liquidity and
and the stability issue, right?
Bad guys want to move their funds, but they need to off-ramp those funds to more usable currencies quickly so they're not getting blocked.
And we're seeing Tether really act at scale more and more now on these types of cases.
So we are seeing, look at the Bybit hack, it's a great example.
I think that changed a lot for us in terms of how we were watching laundering.
Essentially, North Korea stole 1.5 billion in Ethereum.
And within the first
72 hours, converted almost all of that to Bitcoin.
And then started using the services that North Korea typically uses.
One thing that's really important to note is oftentimes North Korea, the pig butchering networks that David was talking about earlier, cartels are actually transferring their funds at one point, at some point, to professional money launderers.
And that is how they're ultimately off-ramping those funds.
They're using networks of casinos, of OTC brokers.
They're getting them into the Chinese money laundering networks that have essentially professionalized money laundering prior to crypto.
And now we're getting more and more involved in crypto.
If you look, and this is to me like, this is the most startling thing.
If you look on-chain,
at cartel activity, North Korea hacks, and these big butchering networks.
You see wallet addresses that are being used in all three of those laundering typologies or those threat categories.
that we associate with Chinese money laundering networks, these professional organizations run by the triads and other types of like Chinese organized crime.
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