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Binance’s Secure Asset Fund for Users (SAFU) has used about $580 million worth of its bitcoin, leaving the fund below the $800 million level that the exchange’s rules say triggers a top-up. Binance has not said when it will replenish the reserve.
Mercado Bitcoin says it will cover all customer losses after a security breach involving nearly $40 million in stolen assets. The Brazilian exchange paused deposits and withdrawals, while partners including Tether, Circle and Chainalysis helped freeze about $11 million.
A 12-person Arbitrum committee temporarily changed a core contract to move $30 million in funds linked to the Binance hack, despite not having the address’s private key. It then restored the code; the report says this is the second time this year the council has used this kind of intervention.
Strategy bought 811 bitcoin for $65.5 million, bringing its reported holdings to 849,327 BTC. The company’s purchase came after it reported $19.5 billion in third-quarter net income; Bitcoin Magazine also reported that Strive added 124 BTC last week.
Nearly $11 billion flowed out of Binance over 46 hours after a record hack, leaving net outflows of $5.3 billion. CEO Richard Teng says the pace is easing: hourly deposits have begun to exceed withdrawals, though the exchange has not said the episode is over.
An analyst says suspected North Korean hackers moved $242 million in funds stolen from Binance through Tron, using a fast-moving web of wallets. Four bridges then moved about $140 million off Tron, with Relay handling the largest share at $48 million.
1. OVERNIGHT MOVES The market-cap decline is sharper than the watchlist’s price action: total capitalization fell 2.72% to $2.622T, while BTC lost 0.6% to…
An X post by @LeonidasNFT claims Binance recently reopened withdrawals for 21 coins, but withdrawals remained unavailable for 531 others. The post also says some of the 21 still carried a “Partial Withdrawal Suspended” notice, so access may vary by asset.
1. OVERNIGHT MOVES The watchlist was mixed and relatively contained: BTC slipped 0.3% to $77,719, ETH rose 0.7% to $2,284.50, and SOL fell 0.8% to $94.18.
Metals.io is issuing tokens backed by 25 tonnes of physical copper stored in Germany, starting with a reported $366,000 worth of metal. The company hopes to build a market where investors can own and trade physical copper through onchain tokens, though the available details do not explain token terms or redemption.
Digital-securities company tZERO plans to go public through a $350 million SPAC deal, with shares expected to trade on NYSE American under the ticker TZRO early next year. The proposed listing would give public-market investors a way to buy into a company that has spent more than a decade building blockchain-based trading infrastructure.
Trezor is urging people who bought a Safe 5 through reseller CryptoBilis to move their crypto after receiving a credible report of a suspected hardware implant inside one device. Trezor has not yet examined the reported device, so the warning is precautionary rather than confirmation that other units were compromised.
Hong Kong’s monetary authority plans to include regulated stablecoins in trials involving tokenized government debt, with settlement designed to run around the clock. Separately, HSBC says its Hong Kong dollar stablecoin, RedCoin, has reached 50,000 users.
BTCPay Server has urged operators to switch off their servers after reports that attackers drained funds from hot wallets. The project has not confirmed the total losses or announced a fix; its founder said the reports appear to involve software versions older than 2.4.2.
China’s Communist Party has included virtual currency and blockchain in a new call to crack down on corruption. The available report does not specify new rules, named targets, or how enforcement would work, so it signals official concern rather than detailing a particular policy change.
The XRP Ledger is preparing a fix for a flaw that could have allowed stablecoin partners to create additional tokens. Activation is now on track for Wednesday after validator support briefly fell and restarted the network’s two-week countdown; XRP itself is unaffected.
Binance said it was investigating after billions of dollars moved from its hot wallets, and Tether and Circle froze $1.79 billion in USDT and USDC. Follow-up reporting attributed the $6.3 billion hack to North Korea’s TraderTraitor group and said Binance later reopened withdrawals, with $3.64 billion in net outflows in the first 9.5 hours.
Financial market utility giant DTCC has selected Canton Network to bring tokenized U.S. equities and Treasuries on-chain, paving the way for 24/7 real-time asset settlement. In a recent interview, Canton co-creator Yuval Rooz explained the network's privacy architecture, institutional adoption, and deflationary fee model.
Macro strategist Michael Howell outlines why Bitcoin needs to hold above $70,000 to establish a base and explains how Federal Reserve liquidity management could drive the next crypto cycle.
The SEC has charged two companies with allegedly defrauding investors of more than $130 million through a crypto scheme described as Ponzi-like. The available report does not identify the companies or explain how investors were allegedly misled, so key details of the case remain unclear.
Trade.xyz has launched a leveraged crypto contract tied to Anthropic’s potential IPO, letting eligible traders speculate on the company before any public shares are available. The ANT contract fell about 20% in its first hour on Hyperliquid, has no Anthropic shares behind it, and is unavailable to U.S. traders.
Raymond and Isiah Garcia received 15-year prison terms for holding a Minnesota family at gunpoint for more than nine hours and forcing the father to transfer over $8 million in cryptocurrency. The case shows how crypto theft can involve physical coercion, not just online scams or hacked accounts.
Chainalysis says a hacker accessed some of its customers’ names and email addresses using what the firm described as “offensive agentic techniques.” The company is also tracking a separate multibillion-dollar Binance hack, where attackers are reportedly using a Tron protocol to evade stablecoin freezes.
Nasdaq-listed Next Technology Holding has authorized selling or borrowing against its 5,833 bitcoin, valued in the headline at about $450 million. The company cited exchange-security and quantum-computing concerns, while saying none of its bitcoin is held at Binance.