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Laundering & ObfuscationChain Hopping / Cross-Chain Bridging

Chain Hopping / Cross-Chain Bridging

concept

Core idea

Moves funds across blockchains via bridges, atomic swaps, or DEX aggregators specifically to exit the coverage of whichever analytics tool is tracing the case.

When to use

Funds vanish on one chain and reappear at matching value/timing on another; treat any bridge hop as a possible tracing break point.

Example

Bitcoin is bridged to a wrapped asset on another chain and swapped, breaking the single-chain trail an analytics tool was following.

On-Chain Laundering Pattern Catalogue

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