About 117,000 NEAR, valued at roughly $430,000, linked to the Binance theft passed through pools for at least six recently created meme tokens, Elliptic said. Pool activity expanded the transaction trail, but the fund movements could still be followed on-chain.
FUK, OLCCL, MEILI, MMLI, DABI and SINU were among the tokens created from Nov. 5 through Nov. 7, Elliptic said. The firm said each token had a dedicated pool where NEAR was paired with it. Elliptic put the per-token creation cost at about 25 NEAR, equivalent to $90.
Wallets receiving the NEAR later sent a comparable amount onward, Elliptic said; most of those funds went into stablecoins or moved across bridges. The firm described the actors as launderers linked to North Korea. The six named tokens had no trading activity from Nov. 8 onward, and creators of four withdrew the liquidity left in their pools that afternoon.
Elliptic previously tracked Binance-linked funds across more than 20,000 wallets, as EconoTimes detailed in its earlier tracing coverage. Elliptic said 11.8 million NEAR tied to the theft had not moved as of Nov. 9. At that point, the firm valued the balance at about $43.7 million.
