By Isaac • October 3, 2026 3:10 pm •
Chainalysis says its investigators used in-house artificial intelligence to follow the $387 million stolen from Bitget across four blockchains, cutting one of the most labor-intensive parts of the job from more than 20 hours to less than 10 minutes.
That is the striking number. But the more important point for the crypto market is what happened around it: human investigators defined the logic, checked the results, and used automation to keep up with an attacker moving assets across chains at machine speed.
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The first three hours were a cross-chain sprint.
In its account of the investigation, Chainalysis said $387 million left Bitget in 23 transfers during the first three hours after the September 24 breach. Ethereum
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