Binance restored phased withdrawals after the largest crypto theft on record, with net outflows representing a small fraction of its roughly $171 billion in cus

US investigators formally blamed North Korean state actors for the heist, while Kim Yo Jong called the allegations politically motivated.

Binance and founder Changpeng Zhao said the exchange backstopped most of the loss itself, with no timeline given for full recovery of the affected assets.

The insurance fund's bitcoin wallet fell to about 7,500 BTC after a transfer linked to the hack, leaving no stated timeline for restoring the $1 billion fund.

The Brazilian exchange said no clients lost funds, while monitoring firm Hypernative attributed more than $40 million in outflows to wallets it links to Mercado

BlackRock's IBIT shed $405.3 million as US spot bitcoin funds opened November with nearly $399 million in net withdrawals.

Investigators tracked the laundering path as exchanges including Gate froze linked accounts and Elliptic found no evidence of AI use in the process.

Rival exchanges captured deposits as users moved assets off Binance following the breach.

Korean exchanges already must hold at least 80% of customer crypto in cold wallets, and the regulator is pressing for more.

Node operators paused swaps on 10 networks as the protocol's co-founder pushed back on FBI requests to freeze funds.

The founder said fraudsters were targeting anxious users and credited the US Secret Service with freezing a portion of the stolen funds.

Flow data suggests institutional appetite for BNB-linked products stalled once the breach was disclosed.

The treasury firm also bought back $208.2 million of its STRC preferred stock, cutting its USD cash balance to $132.7 million.

BTC traded above $76,000 through the fallout, with analysts debating whether seasonal patterns still hold after October's 7.3% decline.

The purchases came as crypto equities traded lower and Wall Street split on Coinbase after its third-quarter revenue missed estimates.

Blue-chip companies are pushing back on the tokenized equities effort, with JPMorgan and Microsoft among earlier objectors.

The exchange reported restoring full backing for its bitcoin claims following the separate exploit.

The blockchain-securities platform is pursuing a listing as tokenization draws fresh institutional scrutiny.