Morning Edition · Sunday, November 1, 2026
Crypto
FBI ties $6.3 billion Binance theft to North Korea as the exchange restarts withdrawals after covering 90% of losses
The attackers made Binance's own hot-wallet signing system send funds on ten chains in about 20 minutes, and stablecoin issuers and partners froze roughly $3 billion of the proceeds.
Geopolitics
FBI asks THORChain node operators, RPC providers and DeFi services to refuse transactions tied to the Binance thieves
The request lists Bitcoin, Ethereum and Solana addresses, but Chainalysis says the attackers already use thousands of addresses, and President Trump said the United States would "talk to" North Korea if it was responsible.
Crypto
Binance-linked wallet borrowed $44.6 million of ether on Aave 40 minutes before the protocol froze markets
Aave says its contracts were never at risk, but its emergency freeze raised borrowing costs for other users, and on Solana Jupiter Lend's withdrawable USDC has recovered only to about 7% of its assets.
Crypto
Privacy chain Iron Fish shuts down after a 2019 nullifier bug let an attacker spend shielded coins repeatedly
The attacker withdrew the duplicated coins through the ChainPort bridge, and Crypto Times reports that 2.98 billion wrapped IRON tokens were minted on Base.
Crypto
Miden opens a partner mainnet with real funds as privacy networks court institutions
Miden's Bread wallet comes pre-funded with USDCx issued through Circle's xReserve, and Aztec has declared its Noir circuit language stable at version 1.0 after a proving-system flaw in its alpha earlier this year.
Crypto
Hijacked domain records sent visitors of 12 DeFi sites to a wallet drainer, taking about $138,000
All 12 sites used the registrar Name.com. In the same week, Chainalysis disclosed a customer-data breach and a London victim lost $14,000 after a street theft, and an Ethereum proposal would let wallets check transaction previews themselves.
Crypto
Study of 92,627 trades finds maker-run "PropAMM" venues on Ethereum quote within the same block and take flow from slower pools
Researchers decoded 30 days of fills across nine Ethereum venues where a single professional maker sets prices, evidence that active market making is moving onto the base layer.
Crypto
Solana's main validator client leaves the applied commission field empty, so stakers cannot verify fees from reward records alone
Checking a validator's fee requires historical validator state and delegation evidence, a gap that matters more as institutions stake for shrinking yields.
Geopolitics
Moscow Exchange will offer bitcoin, ether and tether trading across all sessions from December 1
Under Bank of Russia rules, investors without qualified status face a cap of 300,000 rubles a year per intermediary, and the exchange itself has been under United States sanctions since 2024.
Crypto
US spot bitcoin funds lost $643 million in one day, their largest outflow since June, as the Binance theft weighed on prices
Bitcoin fell below $77,000 on October 30, Coinbase missed revenue estimates as its user count fell, and analysts see Friday's payrolls report as the next test of demand.
Crypto
Uber earned weekend yield by moving HSBC tokenized deposits into a Franklin Templeton fund on the Canton Network
The pilot bought the fund on a Thursday and sold it on Sunday, capturing about a day and a half of interest that a conventional Friday sale would give up, and HSBC plans to offer the service to US corporate clients.
Crypto
Synthetic Anthropic IPO contract on Hyperliquid fell about 20% in its first hour with no shares behind it
Trade.xyz's ANT market lets traders outside the United States take leveraged positions on a private AI company, creating an unregulated price for an asset that does not yet trade.