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according to on-chain analyst Ai Yi's monitoring, an address linked to the Balancer attacker has transferred 5,609 ETH, worth $13 million, to THORChain over the past 9 hours. In November 2025, Balancer was hacked for over $116 million, a incident with the same suspected culprit as the Aave attack, both pointing to the North Korean hacker group Lazarus Group. Both entities have recently been frequently using Tornado Cash for money laundering.
According to on-chain analyst Ai Yi's monitoring, the Venus attacker transferred 2,301 ETH (approximately $5.32 million) to address 0xa21…23A7f 11 hours ago. Subsequently, the funds were laundered in batches via Tornado Cash. Currently, there is still $17.45 million worth of ETH remaining on-chain.
According to on-chain analytics platform Arkham (@arkham), the attacker who exploited the Bridged Polkadot vulnerability has transferred all stolen funds to Tornado Cash, amounting to approximately $269,000.
Rakuten Wallet, the cryptocurrency trading and management platform operated by Japan’s renowned e-commerce group Rakuten, will officially list XRP as both a tradable asset and a payment method on April 15, 2026. At that time, users will be able to directly purchase XRP using Rakuten Points and deposit XRP into Rakuten Cash for spending at over 5 million merchants across Japan. With 44 million users, Rakuten Pay—Japan’s leading e-commerce payment platform—will expose XRP to a massive non-crypto user base. Users can also directly exchange over 3 trillion Rakuten Points (approximately USD $23 billion) for XRP. Rakuten boasts over 100 million members and achieves annual e-commerce gross merchandise value (GMV) of JPY 5.6 trillion; XRP will thus become a spendable, interoperable digital asset within the Rakuten ecosystem.