On-chain investigator ZachXBT said he has repeatedly been left without payment after helping others trace stolen funds. In one example, he said crypto KOL Roshi lost $600,000 to a scam in June 2026. ZachXBT spent more than five hours tracking the flow of funds and helped freeze $96,000, after which Roshi allegedly said any fee could be paid. ZachXBT said Roshi later refused to file a police report in Denmark, citing unpaid taxes, and then disappeared for several weeks after he asked for a $5,000 fee. In another case, ZachXBT said a project had offered a $25,000 bounty. After he completed a deep on-chain review of the team, he found that it had hired North Korea-linked IT workers and was later attacked. He said that project has now delayed payment for nine months and ultimately claimed it could not pay.
On-chain investigator ZachXBT said in a post that he has repeatedly helped track the flow of stolen funds for other parties but did not receive the compensation that had been promised.
He cited one case involving crypto KOL Roshi, who he said was scammed out of $600,000 in June 2026. ZachXBT said he spent more than five hours tracing the funds and helped freeze $96,000. According to his account, Roshi initially said any fee could be paid, but later refused to file a police report in Denmark, citing unpaid taxes. After ZachXBT asked for a $5,000 fee, Roshi disappeared for several weeks.
ZachXBT also described another case in which a project offered a $25,000 bounty. After completing a deep on-chain review of the team, he said he found that the project had hired IT workers linked to North Korea and that the project was then attacked. He added that the project has delayed payment for nine months and later said it could not pay.
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