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Darknet Marketplaces uptick after huione shutdown


The shutter of major Crypto Darknet Marketplace huione guarantee has seen its users break at least 30 successors, with a market that doubles its user base from May.

Huione guarantee I -shut down in mayo After the Telegram banned its thousands of associated accounts and channels.

Elliptic Says In a report on Monday that after the shutdown, many Telegram markets found user numbers, but Tudou’s guarantee was the “main winner,” which gained much of Huione’s previous transaction.

The Tudou guarantee appeared as a clear beneficiary of closing the Huione guarantee. Source: Elliptic

“The Tudou guarantee has seen users more than double -and cryptocurrency flows are more than equivalent to what is seen for the huione guarantee before its closure,” Elliptic said.

Merchants do the switch as well

In conjunction with users, merchants who previously operated on Huione guarantee also moved to Tudou, offering stolen data, money laundering services, prohibited goods and Other products to help scammers Snare victims.

In conjunction with Tudou, Elliptic monitors more than 30 other Telegram-based markets that have experienced a revolt among users and quantities after closing the Huione guarantee.

Tudou offers users a space to buy all types of prohibited services, including stolen data for sale and money losses. Source: Elliptic

“Closing the Huione guarantee has created an opportunity for many of these competitors to fill in the gap,” Elliptic said.

The Huione guarantee is also a major shareholder in Tudou after winning a 30% stake in December, according to Elliptic.

Elliptic reiterates huione guarantee is dead

Analysts in Blockchain Analysis Firm Chainalysis has already been reported activity linked to Huione guarantee Because the so -called “shutdown” did not refuse but rather grew.

However, Elliptic said that there may be a mix-up on the huione guarantee and other huione group businesses, Huione, a large payment business with brick and mortar outlets all over Cambodia, is largely paying Receiving crypto as a payment option and helps launch the proceeds of online scams.

Elliptic said while Huione’s guarantee continued to offer escrow services for private transactions following shutdown, even those associated tether (USDT) Transactions “fell to irrevocable levels” in late May.

Elliptic said the huione guarantee transactions dropped completely after the shutdown. Source: Elliptic

“By evaluating blockchain transactions at a more granular level, it is clear, although huione pay continues to pass high volume, huione guarantee transactions are effectively stopped,” Elliptic said.

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Cambodian conglomerate Huione Group is responsible for a network of businesses.

The Dark Market Ecosystem is still growing

Getting the Huione guarantee sent “shockwaves through the market ecosystem guarantee,” Elliptic said; However, it only allows others to take advantage of the electric vacuum and grow their operation.

“This will require a broader, continuous removal of these markets from Telegram if the major enablers of the global scam epidemic should be stopped,” Elliptic said.

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