![]() GUO: Except every pet is also an NFT - basically, this digital Beanie Baby - and some of them were selling for thousands of dollars. You buy these tiny little digital pet blobs with tiny little legs, and you fight them against other people's tiny pet blobs. You can think of it as, like, blockchain Pokemon. (SOUNDBITE OF LOFI NIGHT DRIVES' "AXIE INFINITY THEME SONG (LOFT CHILLHOP)") One of the biggest things in the world of crypto a couple of years ago was this game called Axie Infinity. ![]() SYLVIE DOUGLIS, BYLINE: This is PLANET MONEY from NPR. Help support Planet Money and get bonus episodes by subscribing to Planet Money+ in Apple Podcasts or at /planetmoney. This episode was hosted by Jeff Guo and Keith Romer, produced by James Sneed, edited by Jess Jiang, fact-checked by Willa Rubin & Sam Yellowhorse Kesler, and engineered by Maggie Luthar. Erin's investigation would lead her to face off against some of the world's most formidable digital money launderers, whose actions would soon raise alarms at the highest levels of government - even threaten the nuclear security of the entire planet. And now it was Erin's job to find that money and get it back. It was the largest crypto heist in history. ![]() In March of 2022, she got the biggest assignment of her career: Hackers had broken into an online game called Axie Infinity and made off with over $600 million worth of digital money. How investigators cracked the Axie Infinity crypto hack : Planet Money Erin Plante is a private detective who specializes in chasing down stolen cryptocurrency.
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