Elliptic: North Korea's launderers minted six throwaway NEAR memecoins to move about $430K of Binance-hack funds through their own liquidity pools
- For compliance teams: don't treat funds that arrive from a liquidity pool as clean, especially when the token is days old and its volume comes almost entirely from a few wallets.
- Elliptic says the technique slows tracing but the trail stays visible on-chain.
Sources: Elliptic: North Korea is minting meme coins to launder the Binance hack (Tom Robinson, Nov 9, 2026)