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The FBI says North Korea was behind the roughly $6 billion Binance hack and has asked the crypto community to block hundreds of Bitcoin, Ethereum and Solana addresses linked to the attackers. Chainalysis says the group has already used thousands of addresses, so the list may keep growing.
EIP-7702 gives regular Ethereum wallets access to programmable features, including combining transactions and having another party pay gas fees. The source describes the upgrade, while separate reports on the Binance breach say investigators are tracing stolen funds and stablecoin issuers moved to freeze assets—not that EIP-7702 caused the attack.
1. OVERNIGHT MOVES The watchlist’s gains are narrow against a weaker market: BTC rose 0.5% to $77,817 and ETH gained 0.5% to $2,260.65, while SOL fell 1.1% to…
An X post by @Hannibal9972485 alleges that Binance is restructuring its balance sheet and facing a liquidity crisis tied to possible bad debts or internal trading. The post offers no supporting evidence, so its claims should not be treated as confirmation of a bank run or financial distress.
Iron Fish says it will end all remaining support for its network after abnormal activity involving wIRON and the ChainPort bridge. The team says its review with ChainPort traced the issue to an inflation bug, but the announcement provided no further details about the bug or a shutdown timeline.
Zcash Community Grants has proposed directing about $124 million in existing and future funding toward mining rewards, presenting the move as a compromise amid backlash over its funding plans. Critics argue that changing where the money goes does not resolve deeper questions about governance and accountability.
Tether reported $1.5 billion in third-quarter profit, while its excess reserves nearly doubled to about $8 billion. At the end of September, the company’s Bitcoin reserves were valued at $8.37 billion, alongside US Treasury holdings comparable to those of major foreign holders.
Blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis says it has engaged outside cybersecurity experts to review its security and strengthen its defenses. The available announcement does not say what happened, when the incident occurred, or whether customer data or systems were affected.
Developers have proposed fixes to make sure only eligible accounts can hold permissioned tokens on the XRP Ledger. The XRP Ledger Foundation said no users were affected, so the news concerns tighter safeguards rather than a reported loss or disruption.
Ethereum postponed the Glamsterdam upgrade on Hoodi, canceling its planned activation on October 26, 2026, at 17:42:48 UTC. No new date has been set, so the previous Hoodi schedule and activation instructions are no longer current.
Investigators have linked the $6.3 billion Binance exploit to North Korea, while the exchange says attackers compromised hot-wallet signing systems and erased evidence. The reported haul includes 18,270 BTC, worth about $1.4 billion; Binance was targeting Sunday for a withdrawal restart and Monday for a proof-of-reserves update.
1. OVERNIGHT MOVES The watchlist is mixed and largely contained: BTC rose 0.2% to $77,530, ETH gained 0.6% to $2,247.68, and SOL fell 0.7% to $95.82.
Andreessen Horowitz General Partner Guy Wuollet discusses the shift from cypherpunk ideology to pragmatic adoption, highlighting how stablecoins, perpetual futures, and decentralized infrastructure are modernizing traditional financial markets.
Uniswap Labs has opened TJAR, its Token Jar fee-conversion system, to other apps, with Robinhood as the first named user. The tool lets apps convert fees collected in one token into another token they choose.
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Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), the parent company of the New York Stock Exchange, plans to partner with and invest in Trade[XYZ] to bring regulated perpetual futures based on Hyperliquid to the U.S. HYPE rose sharply after the news, with reports putting the jump at 13% to 15%.
Trezor is urging people who bought its devices from reseller CryptoBilis since March to transfer their crypto to a wallet they can trust. The warning follows a report of a suspected hardware implant; Trezor has not yet examined the device but says it is treating the report as credible.
Bitwise's new decade-long forecast puts bitcoin at $1.6 million by 2036 in its base case, implying annualized returns of 34%. The firm's scenarios range widely: $130,686 in a bear case and $3.67 million in a bull case.
Strategy CFO Andrew Kang has resigned as the company reported $21 billion in quarterly operating income, driven by gains on its bitcoin holdings. The company holds 848,517 BTC and says it could create up to $30 billion in digital credit, while its preferred shareholders approved daily dividends.
Israel extradited a person accused of exploiting the Nomad Bridge and stealing $2.8 million to the United States, according to a report. Israel’s Supreme Court ruled that using a software flaw may qualify as computer intrusion even if the software technically processed the transaction.
Blockchain investigators attribute the roughly $6.3 billion Binance hack to TraderTraitor, a North Korean-linked group also associated with the Bybit attack. Binance says it has set aside $6.34 billion of its own funds to cover user losses, while investigators point to blockchain evidence connecting the stolen money to other hacks.
Binance says it has reserved $6.34 billion of its own funds to cover losses from a record-breaking hack, including about $3 billion in stolen assets that have been frozen. The breach is also prompting institutional investors to pull funds from other exchanges, widening the fallout beyond Binance.
1. OVERNIGHT MOVES The watchlist sold off in unison: BTC fell 3.2% to $77,462, ETH lost 3.7% to $2,235.10, and SOL declined 3.6% to $96.64.
More than $5 billion left Binance hot wallets on Ethereum, Bitcoin and Tron within an hour on October 29, 2026, in what on-chain trackers and Changpeng Zhao describe as a hack. Tether and Circle froze about $1.8 billion in stablecoins within 45 minutes. Binance says user funds are safe but has not called it a hack.
In an interview on the Bankless podcast, former CFTC Chairman Chris Giancarlo discussed his new book, criticized regulatory overreach at the SEC, and argued that financial privacy must be protected as tokenization reshapes global markets.