(UPDATE, August 28): Since publishing this article, I was contacted by independent researcher xorextrace, who has published a separate on-chain analysis of the CyberLeek crypto trail along with the code needed to reproduce it. All credit goes to xorextrace for this superb work. In simpler terms: we can now reproduce the key money movements ourselves, making Vice Cit’s reporting even more believable.

I should stress that I am not a blockchain analyst. I’m a games journalist trying to verify someone else’s technical work as carefully as I can. With that said, I downloaded fresh Solana transaction data and ran xorextrace’s tools myself.

The earlier funding figures checked out, including the 331.66 SOL sent into the…