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5 min readA High Schooler Against the Kremlin's Crypto Pipeline
When Alex Browder learned that North Korea had stolen $1.5 billion from a cryptocurrency exchange in under five seconds and laundered the entire sum in less than 48 hours, he started digging. What the 18-year-old found would make him the first high schooler ever sanctioned by Russia, and expose a system that has funneled over $100 billion through a single Russian state-backed stablecoin in 2025 alone.
Browder is no stranger to Kremlin hostility. His father Bill Browder was the largest foreign investor in Russia until he was expelled in 2005 and declared a threat to national security. The family's lawyer, Sergei Magnitsky, was arrested for helping expose corruption, tortured in prison for 355 days, and killed in November 2009. That murder "has cast a shadow over my life," Browder says. "I've always been inspired that I need to do something to help stop this."
The Russian Stablecoin That Evades Sanctions
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What you'll learn
- 1 The Crypto Scheme Funding Putin's War with Alex Browder
- 2 Timestamped Outline
- 3 (00:00) **Episode Introduction & Guest Background** - Hosts introduce Alex Browder, the youngest person ever sanctioned by Russia, who created the largest open-source database of cryptocurrency money laundering
- 4 (05:30) **Russia's State-Backed Stablecoin A785** - Alex explains how Russia created its own stablecoin in January 2025 as a sanctions evasion tool
- 5 (07:44) **Kyrgyzstan as the Enabler** - Alex reveals how Kyrgyzstan's state infrastructure allows Russia's stablecoin to function
- 6 (09:51) **Russia Sanctions Alex Browder** - Alex becomes the first high schooler ever sanctioned by Russia as retaliation for his work
- 7 (11:00) **The Knowledge Gap Problem** - Discussion of how senior politicians lack crypto literacy while adversaries have dedicated cyber attack divisions
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