ZachXBT: Chinese Crime Network Laundered Over $1B for Lazarus

The notable element is not the laundering figure but the method: an on-chain investigator gaining access to an active network rather than reconstructing it after the fact. That places private intelligence in a role that public blockchain analysis alone has struggled to fill, particularly where off-chain fiat conversion and local criminal infrastructure are involved. The open question is whether this kind of human-source access becomes repeatable or remains a one-off, since it depends on individual investigators rather than institutional capability.