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Company Behind Illicit $24B Telegram Marketplaces Launches Stablecoin

Huione’s stablecoin is “not restricted” by regulatory agencies.”, — write: www.coindesk.com

Company Behind Illicit $24B Telegram Marketplaces Launches StablecoinHuione’s stablecoin is “not restricted” by regulatory agencies.Updated Jan 13, 2025, 2:47 p.m. UTCPublished Jan 14, 2025, 9:00 a.m. UTC

Huione, a Telegram-based illicit marketplace that offers personal data and money laundering services has rolled out its own stablecoin, according to report by blockchain security firm Elliptic.

The stablecoin (USDH) was created to “avoid the common freezing and transfer restrictions of traditional digital currencies.” The Huione website adds that “USDH is not restricted by traditional regulatory agencies.”

Prior to the launch of USDH, users on Huione were almost exclusively using tether (USDT). Tether froze one of Huione Pay’s accounts in July 2024 after a wallet received funds linked to a theft attributed to North Korea’s Lazarus Group.

The company also released its own chat service to make it less reliant on third-party apps like Telegram.

The report claims that Huione has facilitated $24 billion worth of transactions including a large portion of the funds used in infamous pig butchering scams. It is a Chinese-language market and has links to Huione Group, a Cambodian conglomerate.

Elliptic research found that “thousands of vendors” are offering “money laundering services, stolen personal data, technology and other items necessary to conduct online fraud on an industrial scale.” It also found electric shackles intended for use on human trafficking victims.

One of the money laundering services claims to be representing and operating from the Golden Fortune Science and Technology Park, a reported labor camp that forces Vietnamese, Malaysian and Chinese nationals to carry out cyberscams.

Oliver KnightOliver Knight is the co-leader of CoinDesk data tokens and data team. Before joining CoinDesk in 2022 Oliver spent three years as the chief reporter at Coin Rivet. He first started investing in bitcoin in 2013 and spent a period of his career working at a market making firm in the UK. He does not currently have any crypto holdings.

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