THORChain Faces FBI Pressure to Block $6.3B in Binance Hack Funds

The FBI urges THORChain and other crypto services to block wallets linked to North Korea’s $6.3 billion Binance hack as the protocol faces a major network disruption. THORChain has come under renewed pressure to restrict the movement of cryptocurrency stolen from Binance after the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) urged its node operators and other crypto service providers to block transactions linked to North Korea’s TraderTraitor hacking group. The request comes as the cross-chain protocol recovers from an emergency shutdown that temporarily disrupted swaps across 10 blockchain networks, complicating efforts to move funds connected to the $6.3 billion Binance…