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Here's how big bitcoin traders responded after the Binance hack hit
Your day-ahead look for Oct. 30, 2026
Live updates: Binance says $6.34B set aside to cover hack losses
Follow live updates as Binance says $6.3 billion in assets have been stolen in a major hack. Around $3 billion in stolen funds have been frozen.
Zcash grants group offers $124M compromise as governance backlash grows
Zcash Community Grants proposed redirecting about $124 million in existing and future funding toward mining rewards, but critics say the plan fails to address governance and accoun…
Here’s how an Ethereum upgrade helped drain part of Binance’s $6 billion loss
On Ethereum, the attacker used a 2025 upgrade built to make ordinary wallets smarter, armed with 50 signatures from Binance's own wallet.
Bitcoin price metrics hint at rebound as $1.6B liquidations follow Binance hack
Bitcoin held above $76,000 after a $6.3 billion Binance hack and a tech-stock sell-off, as momentum indicators pointed to a possible rebound.
Crypto liquidations jump to $1.57 billion as Binance hack sends bitcoin, ether lower
Bitcoin traded near $77,350 after $6.3 billion Binance hack, with crypto futures liquidations jumping to $1.57 billion.
EIP-7702 didn’t cause Binance hack, but may have amplified losses
Security experts say attackers could have drained Binance’s wallets without EIP-7702, but the Ethereum upgrade may have helped bypass withdrawal safeguards.
Binance hacker’s Bitcoin haul tops Coinbase’s corporate treasury
The attackers held 18,270 BTC early Friday, topping Coinbase’s reported corporate holdings, and an Ether stash exceeding 500,000 ETH.
Trezor Warns CryptoBilis Buyers After Report of Hardware Implant in Safe 5
The hardware wallet manufacturer has yet to examine the device, but is treating the report as credible and told buyers to move their funds.
MEXC Launches Canton 0-Fee Carnival with $1M Prize Pool
Mutsamudu, Comoros, October 30, 2026 – MEXC, a pioneer in 0-fee digital asset trading, announced the launch of the Canton 0-Fee Carnival together with Canton. From 10:00 UTC on Oct…
THORChain’s RUNE jumps 13% after Binance’s record $6.3B hack
North Korean hackers previously used THORChain to move funds stolen from Bybit and Bitget, prompting calls for the protocol to intervene.
Strategy CFO Andrew Kang resigns as company posts record operating profit
Andrew Kang’s departure comes as Strategy reports $21 billion in quarterly operating income and bitcoin holdings of 848,517 BTC.
USDD Reports Strong Treasury Performance, Growth in Key Metrics, and Ecosystem Expansion
30 October 2026 — British Virgin Islands — USDD has reported strong treasury performance in Q3 2026, alongside continued growth in key metrics, including circulating supply and tot…
Binance Finds 'Additional Points of Breach' in $6.3B Hack
CEO Richard Teng said the attack was "not a single 'one-click' action," as Binance confirmed about $3 billion has been frozen.
Trezor warns CryptoBilis buyers to move funds over suspected implant
Trezor urged customers who bought devices from CryptoBilis since March to move their funds after a report of a suspected hardware implant.
Coinbase Q3 net income jumps 66% as prediction markets gain traction
Bernstein analysts said Coinbase's expanding prediction markets and derivatives businesses helped offset weaker spot trading activity.
Trezor reports suspected hardware implant in Safe 5 sold by CryptoBilis
Trezor urged CryptoBilis buyers to migrate funds after receiving a credible report of a hardware implant inside a Safe 5 device.
Live updates: Binance finds more breaches in $6.3 billion hack; AI spending fears hit tech
A $6.3 billion Binance hack adds to crypto jitters, while weak earnings outlooks and mounting concerns over AI spending push QQQ down more than 2%.
Coinbase Says Customer Funds Safe After Analytics Vendor Contact-Data Incident
Coinbase said an incident involving analytics provider Amplitude affected contact information associated with a small subset of Coinbase customers. For.
Binance hacker dumps a little-known 2017 token and it crashes 90%
The hacker dumped FUN and other smaller tokens into markets too small to absorb large selling, leading to price crashes.
Bitcoin Slips Below $80,000 After Fed Holds Rates and Tech Shares Weaken
Bitcoin slipped below $80,000 in early October 29 trading as markets digested the Federal Reserve’s decision to leave rates unchanged and the accompanying.
Bitcoin, ether and XRP selloff wipes out $1.5 billion in leveraged crypto bets
Bets on rising prices accounted for nearly 84% of forced closures, with Binance handling almost half the total. A rebound has since started catching short sellers.
Here’s what happened in crypto today
Need to know what happened in crypto today? Here is the latest news on daily trends and events impacting Bitcoin price, blockchain, DeFi, Web3 and crypto regulation.
Ethereum Client Updates Address Certificate Risk in Teku and Besu
Ethereum software teams have published updates addressing trust-store exposure tied to compromised certificate-authority keys from eMudhra. For ETH.
Strategy eyes more Bitcoin buys as Saylor touts $30B credit capacity
Michael Saylor says Strategy could create up to $30 billion in digital credit without new common-stock fundraising or further Bitcoin price gains, as the company plans more BTC pur…
North Korea’s TraderTraitor linked to $6.3B Binance hack
TRM Labs says it has high confidence in the attribution, while ZachXBT identified stolen funds from the Binance and Bitget hacks converging at the same address.
XRP Ledger developers tighten the rules for who can hold 'restricted' tokens
A set of fixes would tighten who can hold permissioned tokens on the network. The XRP Ledger Foundation says no users were affected.
Binance hack bites India's largest crypto exchange as it curbs futures trading
CoinDCX has restricted new futures positions after Binance’s security incident disrupted a key liquidity provider. Deposits, withdrawals and customer funds remain unaffected, the e…
Mirae Asset Issues Tokenized Dollar Notes on Solana for Professional Investors
Mirae Asset Securities’ Hong Kong unit announced the completion of a tokenized funding-note issuance on Solana for eligible institutional investors. For.
Binance hacker splits $1.4 billion of bitcoin into 19 wallets that no one can freeze
All 18,270 coins sit in 19 wallets, 17 of them holding exactly 1,000 BTC each, and none has moved since Thursday night, a CoinDesk trace of the blockchain shows.
Standard Chartered sees more pain after $6 billion Binance hack sends bitcoin lower
Bitcoin and ether slid after a suspected $6.3 billion Binance security breach and a Polymarket exploit. Standard Chartered says crypto prices may remain under pressure before findi…
Kamino Opens Solana Lending Market for Backpack Tokenized Equity Collateral
Kamino has launched a dedicated Backpack Market on Solana allowing eligible users to post selected Backpack Securities tokenized equities as collateral for.
Institutional crypto investors rush to pull funds from exchanges after Binance hack
The withdrawals suggest the fallout from the multibillion-dollar breach is spreading beyond Binance.
Binance hack could accelerate shift to DEXs: Standard Chartered
Standard Chartered’s Geoffrey Kendrick says the breach could accelerate a shift toward decentralized trading and strengthen his case for Uniswap’s UNI token reaching $100 by 2030.
Crypto's longtime foe, North Korea's Lazarus Group, likely behind Binance hack: blockchain sleuths
Security researchers suggested that the hermit kingdom's Lazarus Group was behind Thursday's nearly $6 billion hack of the world's largest crypto exchange.
Stellar Unveils Thruput With Multi-Million-Transaction Execution Benchmarks
The Stellar Development Foundation introduced Project Thruput on October 28 as a technology preview that changes how a blockchain execution engine can.
Bitcoin slides below $77,000, BNB drops amid Binance hack
BNB lost 7.1%, while Binance Co-CEO Yi He pledged that the exchange will cover all user losses resulting from the hack.
Google Cloud Previews Institutional Crypto Key-Security Service as Custody Risks Grow
Google Cloud has documented a Multi-party Compute service for institutional digital-asset custody, describing threshold signing, transaction policy.
Robinhood Crypto Revenue Falls 55% as Prediction Markets Support Growth
Robinhood reported third-quarter 2026 results on October 27, with total net revenue of about $1.42 billion, up 12% from the comparable period a year.
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