Binance's preliminary probe links the October 29 theft to a fake job interview that got malware onto an engineer's work computer. Binance says 98% of affected assets are replenished; Chainalysis says about $3 billion in stolen funds is frozen.
Ether touched its weekly bull-market support band. Traders expect a rebound but say it still needs to clear resistance to lead further altcoin gains.
ETH is outperforming Bitcoin, with higher RSI lows against lower price lows pointing to improving momentum. Traders are watching 0.036 for a possible inverse head-and-shoulders breakout.
No memecoin launched in 2026 has reached a $1 billion market cap. ANSEM leads the cohort with a $419 million peak.
A ZEC whale closed an 18,910-ZEC futures long at a $2.58 million loss after Zcash fell below $1,200. Its combined realized futures and unrealized spot losses reached $5.84 million.
The market selloff erased HYPE’s initial announcement-driven momentum, but the token is still reported up 15% over the week as Bitcoin fell. Traders disagree on whether support will hold, with bearish momentum signals tempering rebound calls.
Twelve more companies, including Nvidia, Costco, Nike and Micron, have objected to OKXICE’s stock token plans, bringing the total to 50. Timely objections prevent the affected tokens from trading on the planned venue.
Bitcoin's morning low of $76,291 held just above October's $76,195 low, with traders watching $78,400 for a reclaim. K33 says CME open interest has fallen to three-year lows as perpetual-futures leverage rises, increasing the risk of a sharp move near support.
Investigators say Binance hackers lost up to 10% on some laundering swaps because DeFi pools lacked enough liquidity. Opsek founder Pablo Sabbatella estimates MEV searchers and builders made about $50 million from the flows.
Bitcoin gained over the year following each of the last three U.S. midterms, but fell sharply just after the 2018 and 2022 votes. Michaël van de Poppe says he would buy a drop below $75,000 around this year's vote without leverage.
Strategy bought 811 BTC for $65.5 million last week and spent $208.2 million repurchasing STRC preferred shares. Deployable cash fell 45.3% to $133 million, separate from a $4.79 billion reserve for dividends and debt interest.
Justin Sun filed a sanctions motion alleging World Liberty Financial disclosed its UAE citizenship months into his lawsuit over a $45 million token investment and frozen tokens. The disclosure could prevent the federal court from hearing the case; Sun says he will refile in California state court.
Pump.fun pays referrers 0.15% of referred trading volume from its 0.40% app fee, with the remaining fees going to Callout Rewards. The app continues to pay callers and referrers hundreds of thousands of dollars daily.
BlackRock's ETHA recorded $138.3 million in net outflows on Nov. 2. Its staked Ethereum fund, ETHB, lost another $4.6 million.
Estimated 2026 crypto hack losses stand at $8.73 billion, led by Binance's October 29 theft. Immunefi cites 324 hacks, 2.7 times the count at the same point in 2025.
1win Token has scheduled exchange listings for November 3 after its sale drew roughly $61 million in commitments for a $3.9 million allocation from 6,159 wallets.
CEO Paolo Ardoino says Tether holds about 150,000 BTC, worth roughly $11.5 billion. About 50,000 BTC sit outside USDT backing as proprietary investments, explaining the gap with its reserve report.
BlackRock's spot Bitcoin ETF posted $405.3 million in outflows on Nov. 2, its largest daily withdrawal in over four months.
Mercado Bitcoin says Monday's security incident involved about $38 million in assets, with $11 million already blocked. It promises no customer losses, but deposits and withdrawals remain halted until it considers services secure.
Kraken restricted accounts after assets from a suspected European crypto theft exceeding $133 million allegedly passed through its platform. The exchange says it is working with law enforcement and that its systems and customer accounts were not compromised.
The FBI, Secret Service and IRS urged THORChain node operators and other crypto services to block funds stolen from Binance. THORChain is halted, and restarting requires node operators to vote for a protocol upgrade.
South Korea’s Financial Services Commission is considering raising exchanges’ minimum cold-wallet holdings from 80% to around 99% of customer assets after Binance’s $6.3 billion hack. The higher requirement has not been adopted.
Bhutan's king authorized the new Gelephu Central Bank to hold and invest in Bitcoin and other crypto assets alongside traditional reserves.
Cross River and Offchain Labs will build a tokenization engine connected to the bank’s lending platform so loans can be tokenized by default. Settlement will run on Arbitrum, with ZeroDev providing wallet infrastructure.
NEAR remains below $4, with traders now watching $3.80 as the next support zone.