Morning Edition · Friday, November 6, 2026
Crypto
Binance says North Korean hackers reached its wallet signing service through a fake job interview and an internal AI tool
The FBI blames the TraderTraitor unit for the $6.3 billion theft, and in the same week Mercado Bitcoin customer deposit addresses kept draining for four hours after the Brazilian exchange said its own breach was contained.
Crypto
Zcash activates its NU7 upgrade, cutting the target block time to 25 seconds and reducing wallet work for private payments
The upgrade holds daily issuance steady by cutting the reward per block and sets fees aside for future miners, and in the same week Bull Bitcoin made Payjoin privacy the default for on-chain trades through its wallet.
Crypto
Bitcoin developer Cory Fields proposes collateral "landmines" that would make quantum thieves forfeit their own bitcoin
Anyone moving coins out of a quantum-vulnerable address would have to post matching collateral, and Blockstream separately reported a draft post-quantum Bitcoin Improvement Proposal and a restored Liquid peg in its third-quarter update.
Crypto
Elizabeth Warren is expected to chair the Senate Banking Committee after Democrats won control of Congress
The White House is separately reviewing an SEC proposal on how broker-dealers hold crypto, and World Liberty Financial, the Trump-backed venture at the center of Warren's ethics campaign, plans a token buyback after a 66% slide this year.
Crypto
Core Lightning patches a channel-draining flaw as OpenSSH fixes an Alpine Linux login bypass and Initia restarts after a $2.7 million mint exploit
Lightning node operators on older builds risk losing channel funds, Alpine servers that allow password logins could be entered without the correct password, and Initia resumed block production on November 2 without a rollback.
Markets
Bitcoin trades near $76,000 after a chip-stock sell-off halts trading on South Korea's KOSPI
Crypto liquidations topped $1 billion, US spot bitcoin ETFs lost $430.2 million in one session, and two listed miners said they are selling bitcoin as they convert to AI data-center operators.
Crypto
Optimism proposal would let Superchain rollups take upgrade control from the Security Council after 30 days' notice
A chain that completes the transfer would stop counting as a Standard Rollup, and the transfer would need no further governance vote once the Optimism Foundation validates the request.
Crypto
Aztec Foundation delegates 100 million AZTEC to sequencer operators as Miden launches a private-finance stack and wallet
Aztec's foundation is choosing which operators receive stake on a network whose sequencers it says it does not run, while Miden is shipping a self-custodial private wallet called Bread.
Crypto
US-sanctioned Moscow Exchange plans to open bitcoin, ether and USDT trading on December 1 under Russia's new crypto law
Retail buyers must pass a test and face a 300,000-ruble cap, and the Bank of Russia directive that sets those limits was still awaiting Justice Ministry registration at the end of October.
World
Paraguay's president offers to resign after the central bank seizes Ueno Bank and freezes nearly 3 million customers' accounts
Prosecutors have opened three criminal cases against President Santiago Peña and charged 27 people over loans to companies in the bank's own group, while reports conflict on whether his resignation took effect.
Crypto
Gate reports 104% cold-wallet reserve coverage, but its figures rest on snapshots taken on different dates
Separately, CryptoSlate found that Bitstamp-issued dollar offers on the XRP Ledger held less funded inventory than the smaller RLUSD book at the November 4 close, as Ripple moves to pay suppliers in its stablecoin.
Crypto
Greece sets a 10% tax on crypto gains and 15% on DeFi income while South Korea delays its 22% levy to 2029
Greek holders get a €500 annual exemption and 12 months to declare past gains without penalties, and Seoul would add a three-year loss carryforward with its fourth delay.