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Top story Binance publishes post-mortem on $6.3B hack: fake job interviews, compromised AI tool, months of infiltration

Binance's own investigation attributes the record breach to social-engineered employees and a corrupted internal tool, with North Korea-linked hackers reportedly dwelling inside systems for months before draining wallets.

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Democrats sweep Congress, throwing crypto legislation including the Clarity Act into doubt after $170.5M industry spend

Fairshake and allied groups spent heavily on races that did not break their way, leaving market structure legislation without its prior path while tokenization and stablecoin work is seen as more durable.

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Binance reports $5.3B-$11B in outflows after hack as deposits recover and market share slips to rivals

The outflow-then-return pattern is the clearest measure of customer confidence after the breach, with Bybit, Bitget, Coinbase and other venues courting fleeing users.

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Bitcoin rebounds above $80,000 after dipping to $75,700 on midterm jitters and the Binance hack

The swing shows crypto trading as a macro and headline-driven asset, absorbing both a record exchange hack and a political shift in Washington within two sessions.

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CZ says banks are more exposed than crypto exchanges and calls for industry security alliance as AI attacks accelerate

Zhao's post-hack commentary, including a push for coordinated defenses and warnings that AI lowers the bar for attackers, is drawing direct criticism from rival executives.

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CFTC approves individual stock perpetual futures in the U.S. for the first time, then gets sued the same day

Extending crypto-style perpetuals to equities is a significant product expansion and an immediate legal flashpoint for the agency.

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Morgan Stanley tokenizes securities as banks accelerate Wall Street's onchain push

Major dealer adoption of tokenized instruments is the strongest validation yet for blockchain-based settlement infrastructure.

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Circle beats Q3 estimates with $865M in revenue and reserve income, cuts 5% of workforce

USDC's issuer pairing strong top-line growth with job cuts reflects pressure to control costs as stablecoin competition intensifies.

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Coinbase says 99% of customer assets sit in cold storage after Binance's $6.3 billion breach

Coinbase is marketing its custody model as rivals stumble, though analysts have still turned cautious on the stock's earnings trajectory.

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BlackRock's IBIT sees biggest bitcoin ETF outflows since June as U.S. spot funds bleed nearly $399M

ETF flows remain the dominant marginal buyer signal for bitcoin, and the reversal adds pressure to a market already rattled by the hack.

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Crédit Mutuel Arkéa confirms cyberattack after ZachXBT links it to $133M crypto theft

On-chain attribution tying a French bank to a nine-figure crypto loss highlights how traditional financial institutions now face the same attack surface as exchanges.

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North Korea denies role in $6.4B Binance hack after FBI points to TraderTraitor

Pyongyang's rejection is standard practice, but it matters because attribution drives sanctions and international response.

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Jack Dorsey's Block faces $764M DOJ settlement as bitcoin profit falls 50%

A nine-figure federal penalty alongside halving-related mining economics would be a material hit to Block's crypto segment.

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Amazon, Tesla and SpaceX join objections to OKX-ICE tokenized stock products as deadline looms

Corporate pushback against tokenized equities, plus price discrepancies across venues, shows the sector's unresolved legal and market-structure problems.

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Tether holds 150,000 bitcoin worth $11.5B, CEO Paolo Ardoino says

The disclosure makes Tether one of the largest corporate bitcoin holders, reinforcing its role as a major market participant.

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Moscow Exchange, under U.S. sanctions, plans to list bitcoin and Tether's USDT in December

Sanctioned-market crypto listings complicate compliance for counterparties and underscore stablecoins' role in capital flight.

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