Kelp DAO exploiter launders nearly all 75,700 in stolen ETH through THORchain

The wallet linked to the Kelp DAO exploit appears to have laundered most of the $175 million worth of stolen Ether, while another $71 million remains frozen by Arbitrum’s security council.

The exploiter behind the roughly $293 million Kelp DAO hack appears to have laundered nearly all of the unfrozen Ether stolen in the attack, narrowing recovery efforts to the tranche Arbitrum’s security council managed to freeze.

The Kelp Dao hacker appears to have laundered nearly all of the 75,700 Ether (ETH) stolen from the protocol on Saturday. The hacker primarily used the THORChain to swap the Ether for Bitcoin (BTC), generating about $910,000 in fee revenue for the protocol, according to blockchain analyst EmberCN in a Thursday X post.

The attacker began moving the funds on Tuesday, sending roughly 75,700 ETH, worth about $175 million at the time, into newly created wallets before routing the assets through THORChain and privacy protocol Umbra. Arkham data showed the attacker’s tagged main wallet had been largely emptied by Thursday.

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