Binance Hackers Made Memecoins to Launder Stolen Crypto
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Using memecoins to launder part of a $6.3B Binance heist highlights how composable crypto rails make it trivial to spin up liquidity and obfuscate flows. Compliance and risk teams in exchanges and DeFi need better behavioral analytics on token creation and cross-chain hops — not just KYC at the on- and off-ramps.
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