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Strive CEO Matt Cole says the Binance hack has not changed his long-term case for Bitcoin, but cautions it is too early to call a market bottom.

All 12 hijacked domains are registered through Name.com, according to registry records accessed by The Block, suggesting a compromise.

Binance is absorbing all losses through corporate funds, futures reserves, and SAFU, keeping user balances intact.
Majority of funds stolen in cryptocurrency hack replenished, Binance says Sky News
Crypto's US$176m midterm blitz to gain allies for post-Trump era NST Online

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.
How suspected North Korean hackers swiped billions in crypto in only minutes The Washington Post

Attackers tied to North Korea drained roughly $6.4 billion from the world’s largest crypto exchange. Here’s what we know about how it happened, who’s behind it, and what comes next.

Easier access and growing familiarity are encouraging investors to stake their tokens, while falling rewards and withdrawal delays test the economics.

The pilot let Uber keep funds invested in money market products while accessing cash for payments, even on weekends.

In typical Bitcoin style, the number one cryptocurrency turns 18 today, amid AI-driven security threats, quantum fears and the biggest exchange hack in crypto history.
2026 US Midterm Elections Results Could Shift Crypto Market Outlook and US Digital Asset Policies CryptoRank
GENIUS Act: What New Financial Standards Must Stablecoin Issuers Meet in 2027? Coinpedia
Crypto account cuts Bitcoin short exposure by $11.94M, closing $11.92M in shorts at $77,362 avg price. Pluang

Several companies offer access to bitcoin mining without the hassle of running equipment, but high costs and the 2028 reward halving make profits uncertain.
Binance, crypto and hacks: What to know about keeping coin safe as cyber criminals advance CNBC

Home invasions became the most common form of crypto wrench attacks worldwide during the first half of 2026, rising to 20 incidents from one.

The firm has also been tracking Binance’s separate multibillion-dollar hack, and said the attackers are using a Tron protocol to dodge stablecoin freezes.
Bitcoin marks 18 years amid rising institutiona... Pluang
Circle Internet Group (CRCL) Showed AI Agent USDC Payments With Verified Identity At Money20 20 Yahoo Finance
Next Technology authorizes potential sale or pl... Pluang
Crypto industry pours more than $200 million into 2026 midterms to pressure Congress on favorable rules CNBC

From boat-racing bots to OpenAI models inside Hugging Face, here's how AI reward hacking works and why it matters.

The Bitcoin white paper achieved a lot of what Satoshi Nakamoto set out to accomplish, but the cultural impact it had may outweigh Bitcoin itself, writes CoinDesk's Nikhilesh De.
Binance joins FBI probe into US$6.3 billion crypto hack IDNFinancials

Next Technology Holding cited exchange security and quantum computing risks in authorizing sales or loans against its 5,833 BTC. It says none of the coins are held at Binance.
Binance’s $6.3 billion hack raises questions about crypto wallet safety CNBC
Bitcoin hovers near $77K after Binance hack tri... Pluang

The Binance hack has revived debates about whether decentralization is the digital asset industry’s greatest security advantage or its biggest point of weakness.
Bitcoin trades at a discount on Coinbase amid c... Pluang
Wild West crypto: Staggering Binance heist exposes sector fragility NPR

The company said some non-sensitive customer data was exposed, including user IDs, names and email addresses.
How North Korea perfected the crypto heist Axios
Binance hit by 6.3 billion dollar crypto theft France 24
Binance in talks for Malaysian licence after five-year absence The Edge Singapore
What to know about the $6.3B hack on Binance, likely the biggest-ever crypto theft AP News
U.S. Bitcoin ETFs see $643M outflows on Oct. 30, wiping out weekly gains amid heavy selling. Pluang
Crypto exchanges rush to tighten security after $6.3bn Binance heist Financial Times

Some political and administration figures tried to make hay of the biggest-ever crypto heist.
Tether's Safety Cushion Nearly Doubles To $8B In A Single Quarter After $1.5B Profit In Third Quarter TradingView
Bitcoin holds above $77,000 as Binance hack recovery takes shape Yahoo Finance UK
Everything You Own Will Live On-Chain Thanks to RWA Tokenization CoinMarketCap
Curve Volume Halves to $425 Million as 3pool's USDT Tilt Eases The Defiant

The 18,270 BTC haul is worth about $1.4 billion and comes within 442 coins of SpaceX’s disclosed holdings. Blockchain investigators link the attack to North Korea.
Women-only gym shortlisted for national award and eyes Molly-Mae £10k funding News & Star
Senator Lummis: CLARITY Act could aid crypto firms in hacks like $6B Binance incident TradingView
Bank of America (BAC) Enters New States As It Joins $30 Trillion Tokenization Push Yahoo Finance
Binance hack exposes unsolvable crypto risk: disappearing money The Japan Times
Why North Korea's 'elite' hackers are the prime suspect in major Binance hack BBC
Crypto exchanges call for quick moves to bolster defences after Binance heist The Business Times

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▶ Bitcoin Magazine What to Know About the $6.3 Billion Binance Hack Binance suffers a record $6.3B hack with $3.3B unrecovered. BMTV breaks down what happened, Binance's response, and why every day is now zero day for crypto. This post What to…

Anxiety about the AI boom has sent the Nasdaq 100 slumping by about 10% in just three weeks since hitting a record high on October 6, including a 4.5% drop on Friday.
U.S. Midterms Could Shift CLARITY Act’s Path After Senate Setback www.tokenpost.com
Stablecoins as a vehicle for dollarisation: Evidence from capital controls and currency crises CEPR
Binance Hack: Who Can Recover $3 Billion in Frozen Crypto? Diplomacy and Law

Attackers raced to convert stolen stablecoins into crypto that issuers could not freeze as industry players like Tether and Circle moved to immobilize billions of dollars in assets.
Hackers steal over $6 billion from crypto exchange Binance in staggering heist NPR
Coinbase Holds 30% of All USDC. Does That Make USDC Safer or Riskier After the Binance Hack? 24/7 Wall St.
Binance says user funds are safe after thieves make off with billions in largest-ever crypto hack NBC News

Investigators tie the $6B Binance hack to North Korea. Here's how hot-wallet signing infrastructure was compromised and where funds went.

Michael Selig said the record $6.4 billion theft shows why offshore exchanges should register with the CFTC and adopt U.S.-grade cybersecurity standards.

Following the $6.3 billion hack of the world's largest crypto exchange, Binance, calls are growing for legislation.

Intel beat third-quarter earnings expectations, but warned of a prolonged PC slump, sending shares to their worst daily decline in 50 years.
U.S. stablecoin rules raise the stakes overseas Axios
Hackers just stole $6 billion in crypto. It’s not the first time, and it won’t be the last CNN

Analysts at Cantor Fitzgerald, TD Cowen and Compass Point say the record $6.4 billion theft is a Binance security failure, not a crypto-wide threat, pointing clients toward proxies like Coinbase, Robinhood, and Strategy.

Tether, Circle and others moved within hours to block billions in stolen crypto, but legal experts question whether smaller victims would get the same protection.
Massive crypto hack probably the largest theft of digital currencies in history The Washington Post
Crypto Brief - Lowenstein Crypto Newsletter - October 29, 2026 JD Supra
Binance loses $6.3 billion in crypto heist—what happens to your money when an exchange gets hacked CNBC

Reddit shares are down 44% this week after CEO Steve Huffman warned that Google's AI-powered search features are cutting referrals, while weaker user growth and disappointing fourth-quarter guidance added to investor concerns.

The stablecoin issuer’s US Treasury holdings are comparable to those of major foreign holders, while its Bitcoin reserves were valued at $8.37 billion at the end of September.

Bitcoin Magazine Coinbase (COIN) Misses Revenue Estimates as Users Fall, Armstrong Sets Up New Share Sales Coinbase missed revenue expectations as users declined, despite growth in recurring revenue, while executive share-sale plans and a massive…
Kvarn Capital launches Kvarn X Embedded, a new Crypto-as-a-Service business for European financial platforms The National Law Review

Binance lost about $6.4 billion, the largest crypto hack on record, yet Bitcoin fell about 3%, against nearly 11% in 2018 when the exchange was last attacked.
$6.3bn in 30 minutes: how the world’s biggest heist unfolded Financial Times
Paybis data shows settlement volume up 163% as USDC becomes the leading settlement stablecoin markets.businessinsider.com

Raymond and Isiah Garcia held a Minnesota family at gunpoint for more than nine hours, forcing the father to transfer over $8 million in crypto, in one of the clearest “wrench attack” prosecutions yet.
What Protections Exist for Binance’s Customers? The New York Times
How crypto hacking funds isolated North Korea’s nuclear programme The Guardian
Why bitcoin held up better after the record Binance hack CNBC

Binance says it has set aside $6.34 billion to cover losses from the breach and the FBI and Secret Service are now working with the exchange as investigators trace the stolen funds.

Circle, Strategy and other crypto-linked stocks fell sharply Friday, a day after Binance disclosed a $6.3 billion security breach.

Bitcoin faces mounting quantum security concerns as Ripple secures a US banking charter, USDC gains ground in Europe and VanEck adds BTC to a new ETF.

A recap of Cointelegraph’s live coverage of the Binance hack, including early breach reports and the exchange’s full reimbursement pledge.

How Binance’s $6.3 billion hack unfolded, from the first onchain alerts to $3 billion in frozen funds and a widening security investigation.
Binance’s $6.3 Billion Hack: How Crypto Insurance Works Insurance Journal
OCC Finalizes GENIUS Act Rule Existing Stablecoin Issuers Need Two Filings Before January 18 JD Supra

Richard Teng said the attacker used a self-destruct mechanism and an EIP-7702 delegation that bypassed Binance's normal approval controls.

CEO Richard Teng said hackers erased evidence and bypassed security checks. Binance plans to publish its proof of reserves Monday.

Two brothers who held a family for nine hours at gunpoint in Minnesota for $8 million worth of cryptocurrency were sentenced on Friday.

After Musk appeared to mock Binance’s $6.3 billion hack, CZ reminded him that the exchange’s $500 million bet on his Twitter takeover is now worth over $1 billion in SpaceX shares.

Bitcoin circled $77,000 as crypto markets navigated US stock-market downside, while the gold price fell to its lowest in a year.
Crypto giant Binance attempting to recover $6.3bn stolen in hack linked to North Korea BBC
Broadridge runs Wall Street’s market plumbing. Tokenization may expand its role CNBC
Polygon Partners with Solana to Expand Stablecoin Payments IDNFinancials
UK Crypto Regulation Lessons From Europe’s MiCA Rollout Forbes

Bitcoin Magazine SEC Charges Two Companies in $130 Million Crypto Trading Scheme The SEC has charged two companies with defrauding investors of over $130 million through a crypto Ponzi-like scheme. This post SEC Charges Two Companies in $130…

Strategy fell after Q3 earnings, but StoneX & TD Cowen kept buy ratings, citing $4.83B cash reserve and more stable STRC preferred structure.

EIP-7702 lets ordinary Ethereum wallets run smart contract code, enabling batched and sponsored transactions. Here's how it works.

Analysts at Cantor Fitzgerald, TD Cowen and Compass Point say the $6.3 billion Binance hack is unlikely to derail the crypto market's recovery.

Bitcoin Magazine Blockchain Firms Link North Korea to $6.3 Billion Binance Hack Chainalysis and TRM Labs have linked yesterday’s $6.3 billion Binance hack to North Korea’s TraderTraitor group. This post Blockchain Firms Link North Korea to $6.3…
Unstoppable Convergence: How Exchanges Are Serving the Always-On, Multi-Asset Trader CoinDesk

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A US fusion startup says it has turned mercury into gold. Could a potential increase in the gold supply strengthen Bitcoin’s claim to be a better form of digital gold?
What is tokenization? Nasdaq

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▶ Bitcoin Magazine Alex Thorn: 50-Week Signal Says Bitcoin’s Bottom is In Galaxy's Alex Thorn calls the Bitcoin bottom, pointing to the 50-week moving average reclaim, resilience at $80K, and why being long is now contrarian. This post Alex Thorn:…
How big a deal is the $6.3bn Binance crypto heist, who did it, and are investments safe? The Guardian
The stablecoin trust gap is an infrastructure problem Funds Europe

▶ Bitcoin Magazine Alexandre Laizet on The French Debt Crisis: “Europe is in Need of Bitcoin” France hits 120% debt-to-GDP. Capital B's Alexandre Laizet explains why misspent debt and currency debasement make the case for a Bitcoin treasury…

Binance has allocated $6.34 billion to cover hack losses, while industry partners have frozen another $3 billion in affected assets.

US agencies are investigating the theft and helping trace stolen assets, while Binance says about $3 billion has been frozen.
ACI Worldwide & Circle Bring USDC Settlement to Colombia FinTech Magazine

Israel's Supreme Court ruled that exploiting a coding flaw can count as computer intrusion, even when the software allowed the transaction.
Binance says $6.3bn stolen in biggest crypto heist in history: What we know Al Jazeera
Ripple and Coinbase Partner to Launch RLUSD Stablecoin Across Major Trading Platforms FF News

Just as Hyperliquid opened the door to a fully regulated perps offering inside the U.S., Binance suffered the biggest hack in crypto history.

Both firms blame the group behind the Bybit hack, as Binance says it has set aside $6.34 billion of its own funds to cover user losses.

Binance said it reserved its own funds to cover the $6.3 billion hack, including freezes of roughly $3 billion in stolen assets.
Stablecoin growth – opportunity or threat for banks? ing think

Your day-ahead look for Oct. 30, 2026
From Bitcoin to Binance: Crypto terms and what they mean BBC

On Ethereum, the attacker used a 2025 upgrade built to make ordinary wallets smarter, armed with 50 signatures from Binance's own wallet.
Standard Chartered Says It Provides Digital-Asset Custody in Luxembourg and DIFC The Defiant
Explainer: Gone in 20 minutes, how the biggest heist in crypto history unfolded The Straits Times
PhotonPay Raises $40M Series C to Scale Its Stablecoin-Centric Financial OS Financial IT

Bernstein analysts said Coinbase's expanding prediction markets and derivatives businesses helped offset weaker spot trading activity.

Trezor urged CryptoBilis buyers to migrate funds after receiving a credible report of a hardware implant inside a Safe 5 device.
Ethereum is down roughly a quarter since Trump's return, and India is feeling the chill
Crypto industry suffers 'largest bank heist in human history' as billions stolen in Binance hack Sky News
Tokenization Gives Illiquid Funds a 24/7 Trading Twist Bloomberg.com
FCA Secures HTX UK Exit in Crypto Promotions Settlement Fincrime Central
Binance says $6.3bn stolen in biggest crypto heist in history Al Jazeera
Binance estimates US$6.3 billion hacked in crypto’s biggest heist The Business Times
North Korea Steals USD 6.36 Billion From Binance in the Largest Hack in History TRM Labs
South Korea's Hanwha Investment & Securities Partners with Chainlink to Build RWA Tokenization and Collateral Infrastructure BigGo Finance

BNB lost 7.1%, while Binance Co-CEO Yi He pledged that the exchange will cover all user losses resulting from the hack.
Hackers allegedly from North Korea steal US$6.3 billion from Binance in world's biggest crypto heist CNA
How can banks drive stablecoin adoption among consumers? Asian Banking & Finance
Crypto giant Binance hit by $6.3bn hack suspected to be largest in history BBC
Bitcoin, cryptocurrency prices fall after Binance reports security issue Reuters
PhotonPay raises $40m for stablecoin-centric financial OS Finextra Research
The GENIUS Act Is Becoming Reality, But Stablecoin Reporting Is About To Get Complicated Forbes
Suspected billion-dollar Binance hack sends fear through crypto The Straits Times
Tokenization of Financial Products: The Sea Change to Our Immediate Front Davis Wright Tremaine
Tether USDt BTC (USDT-BTC) Seasonal returns chart Yahoo Finance Singapore

Tether and Circle froze $1.79 billion in USDT and USDC after billions moved out of Binance hot wallets. Binance says it is investigating.
JPMorgan, Citi and Barclays Are Now on DTCC's Tokenization Rails. Why Is Canton (CC) Still Down 21% This Month? 24/7 Wall St.

Strategy reported $19.53B in Q3 net income on a $20.91B bitcoin gain, holds 848,517 BTC, and moves preferreds to daily dividends.
OCC finalizes foundational stablecoin regulatory framework under the GENIUS Act: What issuers, banks, and fintechs need to do now Wolters Kluwer
Inside Wall Street’s Fight Over Tokenization Forbes

After over $2.5 million was lost within minutes on Polymarket, the platform said it has since placed its exchange in cancel-only mode.
Sen. Hagerty hints U.S. could add to its Bitcoin reserve ‘very soon’ TheStreet

The tokenized shares would carry the same shareholder rights as traditional stock, with round-the-clock trading and immediate settlement under the SEC’s innovation exemption.
Crypto exchange HTX exits the UK after settling with the FCA CoinDesk
HTX Ordered to Cease Crypto Exchange Operations in the UK Global Banking & Finance Review