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FBI Seizes $560K in Crypto From Hamas Fundraising Network
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FBI Seizes $560K in Crypto From Hamas Fundraising Network

Chainalysis details five related U.S. law enforcement actions (March 2025–August 2026) that seized over $560,000 in cryptocurrency tied to Hamas and al-Qassam Brigades fundraising, plus the group's donation website domains and servers. The piece walks through the forensic methodology — using Chainalysis Reactor to cluster addresses via a shared gas-funding wallet, trace funds through consolidation wallets and a Lebanon-based OTC broker, and follow Hamas's later shift to cross-chain bridging and single-use donation wallets — showing how earlier on-chain findings compounded into a broader mapping of the group's financing network over time.

TL;DR FBI/DOJ used Chainalysis blockchain forensics (gas wallet clustering, bridge tracing, exchange/OTC tracking) to seize $560K in Hamas crypto donations and its fundraising infrastructure.
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Organisations named here

  • FBI
  • U.S. Justice Department

Technologies named here

  • Chainalysis Reactor

Techniques named here

  • Use of a shared gas wallet
  • Fund consolidation through operational wallets
  • Cross-chain bridging to launder funds
  • Single-use donation wallets
  • Use of OTC brokers and exchanges
  • Money mule activity

Threat actors named here

  • Hamas
  • al-Qassam Brigades

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