Hamas military wing told donors to avoid sending crypto directly from Binance, DOJ filing catches
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Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, told potential donors that it would prefer if they didn’t use Binance to transfer funds to the militant group’s wallet, according to documents released by the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ).
Key facts
- The newspaper subsequently reported that the Treasury is "investigating $165 million in cryptocurrency-linked transactions that may have helped finance Hamas" before the October 2023 attacks
- The Al-Qassam Brigades letter, which appears in full in a DoJ asset-seizure warrant, advised using Tether’s USDT stablecoin and the TRC-20 network, which is used to create and manage fungible tokens
- According to OKX, the wallet address referenced in the Feb. 10, 2025, communication had no association with OKX and had already been identified by its internal controls as linked to illicit activity
- The U.S had refocused its counterterrorist financing efforts about Hamas, particularly in the wake of the Oct. 7, 2023, attacks on Israel perpetrated by the terrorist group
Summary
An Al-Qassam Brigades letter appears in full within a DoJ asset forfeiture filing from Sept 9. The group recommends using Tether’s USDT stablecoin and the TRC-20 network, which is used to create and manage fungible tokens on the Tron blockchain. Department of Justice (DoJ). Instead, it listed Trust Wallet, Bybit, OKX, Kast and Redotpay as applications donors could use to transfer funds to an external TRON wallet. The Al-Qassam Brigades letter, which appears in full in a DoJ asset-seizure warrant, advised using Tether’s USDT stablecoin and the TRC-20 network, which is used to create and manage fungible tokens on the Tron blockchain.