Binance's investigation says attackers used fake recruiters and stolen credentials to infiltrate employee machines and wallet infrastructure over months before the theft.
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The withdrawal wave after the record hack tests Binance's liquidity while competitor exchanges Bybit and Bitget report deposit surges.
Binance says it absorbed nearly all the loss from the record breach with its own balance sheet rather than customer funds.
Changpeng Zhao used the breach to argue no platform is fully secure and to call for a cross-industry security alliance as AI-driven attacks accelerate.
Pyongyang pushed back on the FBI's finding that North Korea-linked hackers carried out the theft, with Kim Yo Jong calling the allegations politically motivated.
The approval brings a crypto-style derivatives model to US equities, and the agency is already facing a legal clash over the decision.
Crypto markets sold off on election uncertainty, breaking a midterm pattern that dates back to 2014.
The outflows mark a weak start to November for US spot bitcoin funds alongside Binance's withdrawal wave.
The breach at Brazil's largest exchange came the same week as the Binance heist, and Tether later froze $4.5 million of the proceeds.
The on-chain sleuth's attribution points to a large theft at a European bank, widening the run of crypto-linked security failures.
Most of the stolen SOL has been moved and routed through THORChain, though Elliptic found no evidence AI was used in the laundering.
The exchange's insurance fund bitcoin wallet fell to roughly 7,500 BTC with no timeline given for restoring the fund.
Seoul is reviewing its oversight structure and pushing exchanges to raise cold-storage requirements in response to the breach.
Flows reversed after the initial panic as Binance completed a second withdrawal phase and published a fresh proof of reserves.
A public spat between rival exchange leaders followed Zhao's remarks that banks may be more exposed than crypto platforms.
The move would bring crypto trading to a major sanctioned venue, a first for a Russian state-linked exchange.
The payments company is negotiating a federal penalty while its bitcoin-related earnings slumped.
The repeated postponement leaves Korean crypto taxation timelines unsettled.
Sun argues the project is using UAE connections to escape federal court jurisdiction.
A widening group of companies is objecting to tokenized versions of their shares ahead of a deadline.
Michael Saylor's company resumed purchases after a pause, continuing its bitcoin accumulation strategy.
Investigators say the intrusion was persistent rather than a single exploit, with the FBI formally attributing the heist to North Korean actors.
The exchange said reserves were restored following the breach.
The patched vulnerability would have allowed partners to mint unbacked tokens on the ledger.
The documentation host for crypto projects is advising credential rotation after an agent-based intrusion.
The bank's launch adds to growing institutional experimentation with tokenized cash settlement.
A government assessment warns of escalating AI-enabled cyber threats to key systems.
The funding supports geographic expansion of the trading firm's operations.
The upgrade aims to improve throughput and privacy guarantees on the network.
The payment processor advised precautionary shutdowns while it investigates reported hot wallet compromises.
The skipped burn breaks a routine tied to Binance's LUNC trading fees.
Fund flows into the BNB-related product stalled once news of the breach broke.
Internet-connected appliances are being recruited into botnets at scale.
The governance change introduces a formal fee structure and a mechanism for holders to earn protocol equity.
The proposal would let institutions prepay for block space, a novel attempt to productize Ethereum inclusion.
The proposal would shift the network's economics toward Solana and add token issuance.
The episode highlights tension between AI product ambitions and user expectations on privacy.
The security vendor is adding controls for autonomous agents and buying an AI observability startup.
The exchange is the latest public spat between the two AI executives.