According to @zachxbt, BUSD tied to address 0x250ea66ec9e17aeb90118995104f8737679427ba originated from a large business theft in April 2020 and is identifiable on-chain by irregular multi-asset CEX withdrawals over a short period with previously flagged theft addresses, source: @zachxbt on X, Dec 4, 2025. According to @zachxbt, an account disputing this is a purchased X account attempting to sway public opinion to unfreeze funds, underscoring ongoing freeze risk for flows linked to the address, source: @zachxbt on X, Dec 4, 2025. According to @zachxbt, traders should treat interactions with 0x250ea66e… and associated paths as high AML risk and monitor for short-burst, multi-asset CEX withdrawal clusters when assessing BUSD liquidity and potential order-book impact, source: @zachxbt on X, Dec 4, 2025.

According to @binance, citing independent data from Chainalysis and TRM Labs, illicit exposure on top centralized exchanges is only a few hundredths of 1%, with Binance lower than peers and down 96-98% since 2023, based on those external datasets. @binance also linked its security blog explaining the measures used to achieve this reduction at scale, as the company’s own disclosure.