THORChain Reopens Swaps and North Korea’s Binance Hackers Rush Back In, Turning Stolen Ether Into Bitcoin Beyond the Reach of Freezes

A refund bug forced THORChain to halt cross-chain swaps last weekend, accidentally stalling North Korea’s laundering of the $6.3 billion Binance haul. Now the network is back online, the hackers are swapping ether for bitcoin again, and the episode is forcing a hard question on decentralized finance: who is responsible when a neutral protocol moves stolen money?

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