North Korea Is Minting Its Own Meme Coins to Launder Binance Hack Loot

Article Micah Zimmerman Monday, 9 November 2026

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Elliptic says North Korean launderers created six throwaway meme tokens on NEAR between Nov. 5 and 7, moving about $430,000 of stolen Binance funds through homemade liquidity pools.

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