Binance's incident report attributes the record theft to months-long social engineering of employees, with North Korea-linked attackers exploiting hot-wallet signing infrastructure via Ethereum's EIP-7702 mechanism.
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Pyongyang's state media rejected the FBI's attribution of the largest crypto exploit in history, which named North Korean wallet addresses tied to the theft.
The approval brings a crypto-native trading model to Wall Street and prompted a lawsuit from a Citadel-backed group arguing stock perps belong under SEC jurisdiction.
Nearly $11 billion left the exchange over 46 hours, though CEO Richard Teng said hourly deposits were beginning to exceed withdrawals.
Spot ETFs bled hundreds of millions for a second day as chip stocks slid into correction and Bitcoin faced its fifth straight weekly decline.
BlackRock's IBIT logged its biggest outflow since June at $405 million as the Binance hack and election uncertainty dampened sentiment.
The exchange said partners including Tether, Circle and Chainalysis helped freeze roughly $11 million of the stolen assets.
A final 250 BTC transfer closed the hole left by September's bug, with Blockstream providing the funds, though the federation has not disclosed who paid.
The disclosure is about 50,000 BTC more than Tether's reserve report shows, with Ardoino not saying where the extra coins sit.
In his first interview since the heist, Changpeng Zhao said automated tools are lowering the barrier for complex breaches and urged an industry-wide response.
President Lee Jae Myung wants a government-wide agency to tackle cyberattacks, while the central bank surveyed its largest lenders on crypto hack exposure.
Nearly 80% of the venture's initial stock selection has opted out of the tokenized securities venue ahead of a looming deadline.
The Tron founder alleges World Liberty failed to disclose its UAE connections until months into his lawsuit over $45 million in WLFI tokens, and plans to refile in California state court.
The company's deployable USD cash dropped from $242 million to $133 million as preferred-stock buybacks outpaced bitcoin purchases.
A 12-person committee briefly rewrote one of Arbitrum's core contracts to spend from an address it held no key for, the second such intervention this year.
The Division of Corporation Finance said it won't recommend enforcement over Canton Coin's programmatic issuance, another signal of the SEC's shifting crypto posture.
The user protection fund now sits below the $800 million level that Binance's own rules say triggers a top-up, with no timeline given for refilling it.
Borrowers in frozen reserves kept paying interest while restrictions prevented new deposits, including the extra collateral they might need to protect loans.
The Russian exchange plans to begin crypto trading on Dec. 1 under a new law, with annual purchase limits for non-qualified investors.
A $127 million accounting gain turned an operating loss into a reported profit for the bitcoin miner in the third quarter.
The Aztec Foundation says the upgrade fixes earlier security issues and doubles the speed of private transaction proof generation.
NEAR's House of Stake passed HSP-029, lowering the network's maximum annual issuance rate from 2.5% over 24 months.
Bettors on Polymarket and Kalshi increasingly priced in Democrats taking both chambers as polls closed across the US.
Defend American Jobs backed Republican Jon Husted, who already supported the CLARITY Act, against Sherrod Brown between Sept. 21 and Oct. 26, according to Americans for Financial Reform.
A November 2 update links hot-wallet thefts to an August-patched flaw and warns that updating cannot remove access already gained.
The Guppy Multiple Moving Average bands and pressure on the 200-day EMA point to continued downside momentum despite post-midterm seasonality.
Cathie Wood's firm added crypto equities as the sector traded lower, a signal of continued institutional dip-buying.
The technology lets banks route and settle transactions across independent ledgers without moving assets.
Participating institutions can settle tokenized deposit transactions in central bank money beyond conventional hours, supporting treasury and fund activity.
The service would offer sanctions screening and qualified validators, though compensation for failed commitments is currently set at zero.
SOL fell to a seven-month low as ETF redemptions and large holder transfers pressured the token.
The firm is betting on round-the-clock tokenized stock trading, though it did not say whether it trades them now.
The October 25 patch rejects a funding-location lookup used by a probe requiring connections to both endpoints of an unannounced channel.
Governance group Open Standard will charge a 0.1 basis point management fee on payment volume, capped at $0.01 per payment.
Armstrong framed quantum risk as a question of when, not if, echoing long-running concerns about cryptographic resilience.
The company narrowed losses while unwinding its bitcoin treasury position.
The company continues accumulating bitcoin for its corporate treasury.
The UK-listed firm added BTC, ETH and SOL to its corporate treasury holdings.