82% of Coldcard’s stolen Bitcoin still hasn’t moved, and that’s the problem
The Wave 3 laundering made headlines, but most of the stolen Bitcoin is still frozen at attacker-controlled addresses.
Mara Velasquez covers markets and DeFi for NFT Signals, reporting on price action, liquidity and the listed companies with crypto on their balance sheets. She also tracks exploits and stolen-funds recovery.
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The Wave 3 laundering made headlines, but most of the stolen Bitcoin is still frozen at attacker-controlled addresses.
The Ethereum Foundation's Protocol cluster graded all 62 EIPs proposed for the 2027 Hegotá upgrade, locking in FOCIL and Frame Transactions as headliners and declining 28.
Galaxy Research says the third-wave Coldcard attacker has moved roughly 45% of stolen BTC, about $7.7 million, draining the 11 largest compromised vaults.
Purported white-hat hackers withdrew roughly 4,000 BTC (~$320M) from Blockstream's Liquid Network federation reserves, pausing the Bitcoin sidechain and triggering LBTC suspensions at exchanges.
Twelve bitcoin wallets dormant since 2010 moved 600 BTC worth $48M, while a separate batch of decade-old wallets shifted $15.7M with one tranche landing on Coinbase.
A forensic audit found more than $7 million in customer assets moved out of Orionx's custody, forcing the Tether-backed Chilean exchange to permanently close and file a criminal complaint against its co-founders.
A British investor recovered $4.5 million in bitcoin he believed lost since 2012, after solicitors traced a dormant wallet tied to defunct exchange Intersango.
Bloomberg-reported disclosures reveal UBS, Jane Street, and Wealth High Governance among named holders of a combined $75 million in Hyperliquid-linked ETF products.
US spot Bitcoin ETFs pulled $986.9 million in the latest week, capping a $3.8 billion three-week inflow run even as BTC briefly dipped below $79,000 on a surprise jobs report.
ZEC crossed $1,000 for the first time in nearly a decade as Grayscale's ZCSH ETF inflows climbed and a crypto-wide Fed rally crushed short positions — before a stronger-than-expected U.S. jobs report sent Bitcoin back below $80,000.