Morning Edition · Monday, November 2, 2026
Crypto
FBI Says North Korea Stole $6.3 Billion From Binance, and About Half Is Frozen
Stablecoin issuers froze roughly $3 billion within days, but 18,270 bitcoin worth about $1.4 billion sit untouched in 19 wallets, out of reach of any issuer.
Crypto
Binance Customers Withdraw About $3.6 Billion Net After Exchange Reopens Withdrawals
Tracking data shows that nearly nine of every ten dollars leaving Binance did not land at a rival exchange, which points to customers moving into self-custody rather than to competitors.
Crypto
BTCPay Server Tells Merchants to Shut Down Servers After Hot Wallets Are Drained
The open-source bitcoin payment processor has given no loss figure and no fix, and its founder says the reports appear to involve versions older than 2.4.2, the release that patched a separate wallet-draining attack in August.
Crypto
Zcash Developers Set November 5 Target for NU7 Upgrade That Cuts Blocks to 25 Seconds
The upgrade also retires Zcash's oldest shielded pool and adds fee recycling, and ZEC led the large-cap tokens as bitcoin climbed back toward $79,000.
Crypto
Ethereum Researchers Propose Running Post-Quantum Signature Aggregation on Layer 2s
A new Ethereum Research post argues that quantum-safe signatures, which are far larger than today's, will make data rather than computation the main limit on rollup scaling, and proposes applying the draft EIP-8288 aggregation scheme to OP Stack chains.
Crypto
Fake Airdrop App on Solana Seeker Store and Initia Minting Flaw Lead Week of Smaller Thefts
Attackers broke into a Solana Mobile developer portal to publish a seed-phrase stealer, an Initia virtual-machine bug let an attacker mint about $2.7 million in unbacked tokens, and a UK court case concerns 2,323 bitcoin taken from a hardware wallet.
Crypto
Crypto Industry PACs Back Republicans as Polls Favor Democrats Ahead of Tuesday's Midterms
Control of Congress after November 3 will decide whether a stalled market-structure bill moves next year, and spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds recorded $643.2 million in outflows going into the vote.
Crypto
Circle Opens Its Cross-Chain Transfer Protocol to Issuer-Run Tokens on Arc
The change lets token issuers move assets between chains by burning and reminting them instead of using pooled bridges. It comes as Circle's freezes in the Binance case show how much control issuers keep over the tokens they mint.
Tech
Researchers Show AI Agents Got Past Crypto Spending Limits Without Human Approval
The team argues that any approval an agent can reach is unreliable, an Ethereum researcher proposes moving spending limits into the token itself, and Cursor is telling users to reset credentials after a malicious plugin update.
Crypto
Aztec Declares Noir 1.0 Live as Miden Launches a Private Self-Custody Wallet
Builders of privacy-focused layer 2s are shipping production tooling and consumer products, even after Aztec's own proving system needed an emergency pause earlier this year.
Crypto
Single-Maker Ethereum Venues Take Flow From Lagging AMMs, Study of 92,627 Trades Finds
On-chain venues priced by one market maker quoted inside the same block at narrow spreads during a month in which about $12.5 billion of leveraged crypto positions were liquidated.
Markets
Nvidia and Nike Join 50 Companies Blocking Their Shares From OKX-ICE Tokenized Venue
A Securities and Exchange Commission exemption gives issuers 30 days to veto third-party tokens of their stock, and the objections now cover most of the planned launch list.