KKirinblog.chainhint.com·Sep 21 · 5 min readHow 40 BTC becomes 256 BTC, and every digit stays trueOn 15 May 2026 a THORChain vault paid 36.853504 BTC into an address that had no business receiving it. The exploit is documented by TRM Labs and by THORChain's own report; the transaction is 3f21c687.00
KKirinblog.chainhint.com·Sep 7 · 5 min readAI agents can now pay ChainHint per call: x402 for on-chain AML screeningTL;DR — ChainHint's wallet-reputation API now speaks x402. Beyond a free tier, an autonomous AI agent can screen any address for sanctions, mixers, entity attribution and risk across 12 chains and pay00
KKirinblog.chainhint.com·Aug 28 · 7 min readMetaSleuth Alternative: ChainHint vs MetaSleuth for Crypto Investigations (2026)TL;DR: MetaSleuth (by BlockSec) and ChainHint both offer hop-by-hop fund-flow tracing across 12 blockchains — the difference is what surrounds the graph. MetaSleuth is built around a huge label databa00
KKirinblog.chainhint.com·Apr 21 · 12 min readLazarus Group Laundering Playbook: 8 Years, $6.7B, and the Patterns Every Investigator Should Know$6.75 billion. That's what North Korea-linked hackers, Lazarus Group foremost, have stolen in crypto all-time, by Chainalysis's December 2025 count. Not across thousands of victims — across a handful 00
KKirinblog.chainhint.com·Mar 29 · 6 min readBybit Hack Fund Flow Analysis: How $1.5B Moves Through the BlockchainBybit Hack Fund Flow Analysis: How $1.5B Moves Through the Blockchain On February 21, 2025, $1.5 billion disappeared from Bybit in minutes. A month later, by Bybit's own count, only 3.54% had been fro10