Wallet Linked to Drift Exploit Sends $61 Million in Ethereum to Tornado Cash

In brief

• Wallets tied to the April 1 Drift exploit deposited 25,700 Ethereum, worth about $61.56 million, into Tornado Cash over two hours on Tuesday.
• Arkham data shows the exploiter's 71 tracked addresses still hold 81,454 ETH, worth roughly $198 million, after a first 23,095 ETH round in July.
• Drift's DFX recovery pool held about 3.1 million USDT when claims opened Oct. 1, paying early redeemers roughly a penny per dollar lost.

Wallets tied to April's $295 million Drift Protocol exploit pushed 25,700 Ethereum, worth about $61.56 million, into the crypto mixer Tornado Cash over roughly two hours on Tuesday. The addresses had been quiet for about two months before the burst.

Transfer data from Arkham Intelligence shows the deposits landing in batches of 100 ETH, about $237,800 each, plus smaller 10 ETH chunks. Those sizes match the mixer's fixed deposit pools, which let users pull funds out later from fresh addresses and break the public link between sender and receiver.

Arkham's entity page, which tracks 71 addresses linked to the attacker, still shows 81,454 ETH sitting in those wallets after Tuesday's deposits, worth roughly $198.58 million at current prices. Besides that ETH stash, the wallet holds around $561.6K in other coins like USDT, USDC, Solana, and USDY.