Cc9f267dcClaimNews eventIsrael extradited Israeli-Russian citizen Alexander Block to the United States to face federal charges related to an alleged $2.8 million crypto theft from NomadAgreeDisagree
Cc9f267dcClaimIsraeli police arrested Alexander Block at Ben Gurion Airport in May 2025 as he prepared to board a flight to Russia, shortly after he changed his surname from Gurevich and obtained a new passportAgreeDisagree
Cc9f267dcClaimAlexander Block allegedly moved tokens worth more than $2.8 million stolen from Nomad through multiple crypto wallets and converted them into other cryptocurrencies to conceal their originAgreeDisagree
Cc9f267dcClaimU.S. spot Ethereum ETFs experienced $156 million in net outflows on October 30, 2026AgreeDisagree
Cc9f267dcClaimHackers drained approximately $6.36 billion from the Binance crypto exchange across 10 blockchains on October 29, 2026AgreeDisagree
Cc9f267dcClaimProsecutors allege that Alexander Block's initial August 2022 exploit exposed Nomad's software flaw to other users, leading to a wider drain of Nomad's funds that emptied over $186 million from a Nomad-controlled walletAgreeDisagree
Cc9f267dcClaimIn December 2025, the Federal Trade Commission proposed a settlement requiring Illusory Systems, Nomad's operator, to return recovered funds to unreimbursed users following the $186 million Nomad breach in August 2022AgreeDisagree
Cc9f267dcClaimOperating under the username Bitlik around August 1, 2022, Alexander Block allegedly made six test transfers before completing four main transfers to steal over $2.8 million in crypto tokens from NomadAgreeDisagree
Cc9f267dcClaimBinance suspended deposits and withdrawals following the October 29, 2026 Binance hack while stating that user funds remained safeAgreeDisagree
Cc9f267dcClaimBlockchain analytics firm TRM linked the October 29, 2026 Binance theft to the North Korean hacking unit TraderTraitorAgreeDisagree
Cc9f267dcClaimBlackRock's iShares Ethereum Trust led Ethereum ETF outflows on October 30, 2026, recording approximately $76.6 million in redemptionsAgreeDisagree
Cc9f267dcClaimU.S. spot Ethereum ETFs hold approximately $13 billion to $14 billion in total assets as of late October 2026AgreeDisagree
Cc9f267dcClaimNomad recovered approximately $22 million in crypto assets in the days immediately following Alexander Block's August 2022 Nomad exploitAgreeDisagree
Cc9f267dcClaimDays after the August 2022 exploit, Alexander Block returned some tokens and contacted a senior Nomad official on Telegram offering to return the rest for a fee before cutting off contactAgreeDisagree
Cc9f267dcClaimTHORChain's emergency pause mechanism was activated after an Ethereum reorg caused a duplicate 10 ETH refund to be processed, catching the anomaly post-transaction rather than preventing it beforehandAgreeDisagree
Cc9f267dcClaimTHORChain paused trading and swaps across 12 of the 13 chains it supports after an Ethereum reorganization triggered a double refund error on October 31, 2026AgreeDisagree
Cc9f267dcClaimBlockchain analytics firm Chainalysis reported that THORChain's emergency halt temporarily slowed DPRK-linked efforts to launder funds stolen from Binance by freezing cross-chain swapsAgreeDisagree
Cc9f267dcClaimOnchain data reviewed by The Block traced approximately $138,000 in stolen crypto funds from the Name.com DNS hijacking attack across EVM-compatible chains routed to three attacker wallets in fixed 15%, 55%, and 30% cutsAgreeDisagree
Cc9f267dcClaimThe hijacked websites include Pickle Finance, Origami Finance, FluxBeam, Echelon, StonkFun, StakePoint, Flap, and Kintsu, while their underlying smart contracts remained unbreachedAgreeDisagree
Cc9f267dcClaimHackers hijacked at least 12 decentralized finance websites registered through Name.com in a DNS hijacking attack that rewrote domain records to redirect users to malicious frontend infrastructureAgreeDisagree