Today in crypto, German authorities seized $38 million of digital assets from an exchange linked to the Bybit hack in February, US Securities and Exchange Commission Commissioner Caroline Crenshaw blasted a settlement agreement between the SEC and Ripple, which she says could erode SEC lawyers’ credibility in the court, and Democrats in the US block the GENIUS stablecoin bill from advancing.
Germany seizes $38 million in crypto from Bybit hack-linked eXch exchange
German law enforcement seized 34 million euros ($38 million) in cryptocurrency from eXch, a cryptocurrency platform allegedly used to launder funds stolen after Bybit’s record-breaking $1.4 billion hack.
The seizure, announced on May 9 by Germany’s Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) and Frankfurt’s main prosecutor’s office, involved multiple crypto assets, including Bitcoin
BTC
$103,173
, Ether
ETH
$2,328
, Litecoin
LTC
$99.14
and Dash
DASH
$23.90
. The move marks the third-largest crypto confiscation in the BKA’s history.
The authorities also seized eXch’s German server infrastructure with over eight terabytes of data and shut down the platform, the announcement added.
In the statement, the BKA described eXch as a “swapping” service that allowed users to exchange various crypto assets without implementing Anti-Money Laundering (AML) measures.
The platform had operated since 2014 and reportedly facilitated about $1.9 billion in crypto transfers, some of which were believed to be of “criminal origin,” including assets laundered during the Bybit hack.
Example of flow of Bybit exploit funds moving through eXch and bridging back and forth between Ether and Bitcoin. Source: TRM Labs
“Among other things, a portion of the $1.5 billion stolen from the Bybit crypto exchange, which was hacked on Feb. 21, 2025, is said to have been exchanged via eXch,” the authorities wrote.$BTC $ETH $XRP