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A suspect posing as a delivery worker entered a Mission Dolores home near 18th and Dolores around 6:45 a.m. on Nov. 22, restrained the resident, and stole a phone, laptop, and about $11 million in cryptocurrency, according to the San Francisco Chronicle. San Francisco police had not announced arrests or provided asset details as of Sunday, and no chain or token mix has been disclosed. Physical attacks on crypto owners are far from isolated, with a concerning trend emerging. Recent and past incidents we’ve covered include a $4.3 million UK home invasion; the SoHo kidnapping and torture to force access to a Bitcoin wallet; France’s rise in crypto-linked kidnappings and the state response; extreme OPSEC shifts by prominent holders like the Bitcoin Family distributing their seed phrase across continents; a broader move by high-net-worth investors hiring protection; and analysis of wrench-attack trends and self-custody trade-offs. The theft shifts immediately to an on-chain chase. Even when a robbery begins at a front door, the money often moves across public ledgers, where it can be traced, creating a race between laundering paths and the tightening freeze-and-trace tools that matured in 2025. USDT on TRON remains central to that calculus. Industry-wide capacity to freeze capacity has expanded this year through cooperation among issuers, networks, and analytics firms, and the “T3” Financial Crime Unit has reported hundreds of millions of dollars in tainted tokens frozen since late 2024. If any of the stolen value is in stablecoins, the odds of a near-term stop improve, as large issuers work with law enforcement and analytics partners to blacklist addresses on notice. The broader data supports a stablecoin-first hypothesis for illicit flows. Chainalysis’s 2025 crime report shows that stablecoins accounted for about 63 percent of illegal transaction volume in 2024, a marked shift from prior years when…

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Filed under: News - @ November 24, 2025 3:27 pm