US punishes Blender.io for helping North Korea launder millions in stolen Axie crypto

It says the Lazarus Group funneled around $20 million through the service. | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The US Treasury Department announced on Friday that it's sanctioning Blender.io, essentially cutting the Bitcoin mixer off from the US financial system (legally speaking, anyway). The department alleges that the service, which lets people obfuscate the record usually kept by the blockchain, was used by North Korea to "support its malicious cyber activities and money-laundering of ...