According to ZachXBT, he identified a suspect tied to the $28M Bittensor (TAO) hack from 2024 by tracing anime NFT wash trades linked to a former employee and received a whitehat bounty for the work. Source: ZachXBT on X, Oct 15, 2025. The thread details how wash-traded NFT activity was used to attribute wallet clusters and connect internal links related to the 2024 exploit. Source: ZachXBT on X, Oct 15, 2025. This marks a new attribution lead in the Bittensor TAO case that traders and risk teams can reference when tracking addresses associated with the incident. Source: ZachXBT on X, Oct 15, 2025.