A recent Chainalysis report reveals that nearly 89% of global cryptocurrency thefts this year were perpetrated by North Korean hackers. While the crypto community is constantly reporting being hacked, these statistics will show you what true technological superiority looks like. This isn't just hacking; it's state-sponsored robbery. Even more outrageous is their "performance growth": In 2021, they stole an average of $50 million per transaction. Now? An average of $185 million per transaction. That's a 3.7-fold increase. Since the $1.5 billion theft at Bybit last year, North Korean hackers have suddenly "gotten it." They discovered that painstakingly writing code to find smart contract vulnerabilities was too tedious; now they specialize in targeting the "transaction signature" process. Simply put: without breaking into your vault, they trick your executives into opening the vault themselves. Faced with the firepower of this national hacking army, the so-called security audits of top exchanges are as fragile as paper. Take a close look at this list of stolen assets from 2026; it's glaringly obvious: Binance (CZ): 6.3 billion+ Bybit (Ben Zhou): 1.5 billion Bitget (Chen Jiajun): 388 million Phemex (Jack Tao): 85 million HTX (Sun Yuchen): 80 million CoinEx (Yang Haipo): 70 million Poloniex (Sun Yuchen): 53 million Gate (Han Lin): 7.9 million North Korean hackers specifically target Chinese exchanges to steal cryptocurrency. You're here diligently monitoring the market and calculating the risk-reward ratio. While they're operating in their own country, they simply steal all your principal.