What Role Do Mixers, Bridges, and Privacy Tools Play?

[nihalsari]

Privacy infrastructure is central to North Korea’s laundering operations. Tools like mixers, cross-chain bridges, and privacy pools are used to break transactional continuity.

Mixers obscure the source of funds by pooling assets from multiple users, while bridges move value between blockchains where monitoring standards differ. In some cases, assets are converted into privacy-centric tokens or routed through protocols with limited compliance oversight.

This isn’t about anonymity alone—it’s about jurisdictional arbitrage, exploiting gaps between regulatory regimes and technical standards across chains.