CZ credits the FBI, Secret Service and IRS with helping track and freeze funds after the Binance hack, limiting Bitcoin’s decline. Traders point to a roughly 5% drop and support near $76,000 as grounds for a possible bottom.
The Binance hacker sold over 130 altcoins on EVM chains for roughly $279 million in ETH and USDC. One sale dumped 908,793 PROM, quoted at $5 million, into an empty Uniswap V2 pool for just $71.
Ether has retested $2,100 after rejecting $2,800 and swept the lows set since August's breakout. Traders see room for a rebound, but a move below $1,850 remains a risk if it fails to turn higher.
US spot Bitcoin ETFs lost $643.2 million on October 30. The outflow erased the prior four sessions’ $440.8 million in inflows, leaving the week with $202.4 million in net outflows.
Binance restored ETH, USDT and USDC withdrawals on Ethereum, plus BNB, USDT and USDC on BNB Smart Chain, after reopening Bitcoin withdrawals. It will restore more assets and networks as security checks finish following the $6.3 billion hack.
HYPE has retraced part of its ICE-news rally but remains above its pre-news price. Traders are split between buying the pullback and shorting it on expectations that more gains will unwind.
US spot Ethereum ETFs have recorded 23 straight sessions of outflows, their longest streak since launch. October withdrawals total roughly $1.61 billion.
NEAR's pullback from above $5 reached the $3.90 area. Traders disagree on whether the correction is over, with some eyeing $3.75–$4 entries and others waiting for a higher high before buying.
Chainalysis says a hacker accessed customer names, emails and organization role labels. It found no evidence that passwords, MFA secrets or session tokens were compromised and says the breach is unrelated to the Binance hack.
Kinetiq's Elysium is scheduled to launch its mainnet on November 9. A demo previews one-click transfers from HyperCore to the L2.
Bitcoin trades around $77,500 ahead of October's close, below its roughly $83,600 monthly open. It is on track for a second straight October loss.
The domain attack affecting StonkFun spans a dozen DeFi websites serving Step Drainer, with about $138,000 in stolen funds traced so far. Ten targeted domains were suspended Saturday.
The FBI attributed the $6.3 billion Binance theft to North Korea-linked TraderTraitor. It urged THORChain and other DeFi platforms to block addresses used to launder the stolen funds.
ICE and TradeXYZ plan to bring Hyperliquid-based perpetuals to the U.S., subject to regulatory approval. ICE would operate U.S.-regulated versions of TradeXYZ’s markets.
OneKey founder Yishi Wang warned that unpatchable chip flaws in older iPhones could threaten offline crypto seed storage when attackers gain physical USB access. He advised moving assets to newly generated seeds; passcodes and Secure Enclave protections still limit access on XS and 11 models.
Bitcoin bounced from around $76,300 to $77,750 but remains below former support at $79,500. Traders see room for a recovery toward $80,000, with another test near $76,000 possible if buying stalls.
Bitcoin trades around $77,300–$77,600 this Halloween, roughly 29% below last year's $109,600. Traders are comparing the decline with earlier years when Bitcoin also finished Halloween below its prior-year price.
An Ethereum reorganization caused THORChain to issue a duplicate refund and pause swaps on 12 of its 13 supported chains. Outbound signing remains enabled on most affected chains, but the halt also delayed movement of stolen Binance funds.
Some altcoins are trading above their levels before the Binance hack. Traders see the limited selling across crypto as a sign the correction could be near its low.
ETH/BTC broke its short-term downtrend after roughly four weeks of decline. RSI higher lows support the sellers' exhaustion claim, with traders watching whether the breakout holds on a retest.
Adam Weitsman bought three Bored Apes on Halloween: a blue-beam cheetah and an astronaut from Machi, plus a trippy ape from bavibull. Two of the purchases were arranged through GrailsOTC.
m0dest’s artwork Dark is live for minting on Transient Labs.
Of roughly 24.4 million tokens launched on Pump.fun, 312 currently have market caps above $100,000. That puts the share at about 0.00128%.
Moscow Exchange plans to launch Bitcoin, Ethereum and USDT trading on December 1 under Russia's new crypto law. Trading would run across its sessions, from 7 a.m. to midnight Moscow time.
Crypto's total market value fell in October. Estimates of the loss range from $250 billion to more than $325 billion.