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I know literally 0 about crypto so please communicate as if I were a 5th grader (actually they may perhaps be more knowledgeable than I).

Any chance for the exploiters to be prosecuted, or is it essentially all anonymous?

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alot of the exploit wallets are doxxed, e.g. they have an initial deposit into wallet from a centralized crypto exchange like coinbase or FTX that investigators can request info from. its actually pretty hard to get a "clean" wallet, and even if you have one, mixing the crypto back out to fiat is tricky as well. what's worse, all transactions are permanently on the blockchain so if they don't catch you now they can always catch you later.

Trying to speculate my immediate question is: what court gets jurisdiction over this and why?

* The one where the investor lives?

* The alleged thief?

* The creators of the contract?

* Some 4th option?

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