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🕵️Hackers Stole $2B in Crypto, and Got Smarter Doing It

🕵️Hackers Stole $2B in Crypto, and Got Smarter Doing It

December 25, 2025 | Market Mood: 🫤 Erratic AF

DayTrading Dispatch
December 27, 2025

🔥 Featured: 🕵️ North Korea Jacked $2B+ in Crypto in 2025 — And They’re Just Getting Started

Chainalysis says North Korean hackers stole $2.02 billion in crypto this year, accounting for a staggering 59% of all global crypto theft in 2025.

Here’s what makes it worse: They pulled that off with 74% fewer attacks.

No more smash-and-grabs. DPRK’s playbook now leans on surgical strikes and state-tier laundering ops:

🌉 cross-chain bridges
🧪 crypto mixers
👲 Chinese-language services
🔁 repeatable transfer patterns that scream “state-sponsored”

The money’s not just vanishing, it's funding armored vehicles, missiles, and weapons programs. Crypto isn’t just under attack from hackers. It's being harvested like infrastructure.

Bybit’s $1.5B hack in February wasn’t an outlier. It was a template.

👉 Get the full details.

💀 📊 This Week in Chaos

📉 Mt. Gox Hacker Dumps $114M in Bitcoin

Another 1,300 BTC hit exchanges this week. Wallets still hold 4,100 BTC ($360M). The overhang isn’t gone.

💰 Trump-Linked USD1 Pumps on Binance’s 20% Yield

Binance rolled out a 20% APR promo, sending USD1’s market cap up to $150M in days. Yield chasing is officially back.

🐋 Bitcoin OG Moves 100,000 ETH to Binance

A trader who nailed October’s crash just shipped 100K ETH to an exchange. Timing raised eyebrows. Sentiment didn’t like it.

🏛 Binance Let Suspicious Accounts Trade Post-Plea Deal: FT

FT tracked $144M in trades through flagged accounts after Binance’s 2023 U.S. plea agreement. Regulators won’t ignore this.

🕵️ Brooklyn Man Charged in $16M Coinbase Phishing Scheme

About 100 users drained, one suspect charged. ZachXBT had already connected the dots last year.

🧪 Poll of the Week

Will Congress actually pass a crypto bill in 2026?

They talked big all year. Then folded like a DAO during a bear market. Now it’s midterms, shutdown threats, and Congress doing what it does best: nothing. What’s your take?

👉 Vote before they rewrite the rules again.

📚 RESOURCES WE LIKED THIS WEEK

🔥 Top Crypto Exchanges in 2025

Not all venues are built the same. We break down fees, fills, custody risks — and which traders each platform actually serves.
👉 See the breakdown ›

📊 2026 Digital Assets Outlook Report

Where capital is headed next year, what regulation might actually land, and which narratives die quietly.
👉 Read the outlook ›

📈 Decoding the Crypto Order Book

Price tells you what happened. The order book tells you why. Learn to spot spoofing, real size, and when a whale’s about to wreck the chart.
👉 Learn how to read it ›

🌍 State of the Blockchain 2025

What actually got built, what’s still vapor, and who’s quietly winning in infrastructure.
👉 Read the report ›

📊This Week’s Big Movers

Rugpulls, moonshots, and one coin that bounced by 194K x’d. Here’s what moved:

👆Griffin AI [GAIN] +194.17K% 👆CATX [CATX] +4092% 👆Beefy [BIFI] +360%

👆NUMINE Token [NUMI] +143% 👆Fasttoken [FTN] +128% 👆Humanity [H] +70%

👆Canton [CC] +41% 👆Midnight [NIGHT] +20% 👇BLOCK AI [SOA] -99%

👇Ace Data Cloud [$ACE] -94% 👇Legacy Token [LGCT] -67% 👇Infrared Finance [IR] -44%

👇Audiera [BEAT] -24% 👇Aave [AAVE] -16% 👇MemeCore [M] -15%

🔮 What to Watch Next Week

Dec 26, 2025 – Jan 1, 2026 | Holiday Mode Activated 🎁

🎄 Thin Liquidity Week: No FOMC until Jan 27–28. Volume’s on vacation. Rate cuts still settling. Expect chop, not trend, and fakeouts galore.

🗓 Quiet Crypto Calendar: No big launches. Airdrops, unlocks, and narrative bait will do most of the moving. Watch narratives rather than fundamentals.

📊 Year-End Positioning: It’s portfolio cleanup time. Expect a few tax-loss gifts and surprise pumps under the tree.

🏛 Regulation (Quietly) Loading: Senate crypto market structure talks likely resume post-holidays. SEC Chair Paul Atkins is floating an “Innovation Exemption” proposal for late Jan 2026.

Bottom line: Volume’s thin, narratives are loud, and Santa left us a few 2026 leaks in our stocking. Trade light, stay sharp, and don’t get rekt under the mistletoe.