$2B in crypto stolen from cross-chain bridges this year: Chainalysis
The $190 million Nomad Bridge exploit is just the latest out of 13 separate bridge attacks in 2022 so far. Cross-chain bridge hacks have accounted for 69% of the total crypto stolen in 2022, amounting to $2 billion in losses, according to a new report. The report comes from blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis on Aug. 2, noting there have been 13 separate token bridge hacks this year — the most recent being the $190 million Nomad Bridge exploit.Q1 2022 was by far the quarter that saw the most amount of crypto stolen since 2021, due mainly to the Ronin Bridge Attack in late March, which....
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Cross-Chain Bridges
There’s a decent quantity of cross-chain blockchain bridges these days and it has allowed users to do a variety of different decentralized finance (defi) techniques. Interestingly, a great deal of bridges connect to the Ethereum (ETH) network, as they have Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM)....
Chainalysis Crypto Incident Response team helped law enforcement trace stolen funds to cash out points and for their subsequent freeze. On Thursday, blockchain forensics firm Chainalysis said that law enforcement had recovered $30 million in crypto stolen from the $625 million Ronin Bridge hack in March. According to Chainalysis, Lazarus Group, the North-Korea linked entity behind the attacks, first used sophisticated money-laundering techniques such as sending stolen Ether (ETH) to crypto-mixer Tornado Cash, swapping it for Bitcoin (BTC), sending theBitcoin to Tornado Cash, and then....
Decentralized finance (DeFi) and cross-chain bridges have seen some of the highest growth in recent months. The crypto market has begun another recovery trend and its effects are reverberating through the entire industry. Cross-chain bridges which allow different blockchains to interact with one another, thereby allowing for trading between two blockchains, are in high demand. […]
The blockchain forensics firm said cross-chain bridges provide an "unregulated alternative" to exchanges for transferring value between blockchains. Cross-chain bridges have been the target of more than a few hacks this year, but new data from blockchain analytics provider Elliptic alleges one has been used to launder over half a billion dollars in ill-gotten crypto assets. According to an Aug. 10 report, crypto bridge RenBridge has facilitated the laundering of at least $540 million in proceeds of crime since 2020 through a process known as chain hopping — converting one form of....
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