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Following a September exploit that drained about $320 million in BTC and left a gap in its reserve, the Liquid Federation has now announced that it has restored full 1:1 Bitcoin for LBTC. The missing coins were reportedly supplied by Blockstream.
Speaking in Hong Kong, Binance co-CEO Richard Teng said the exchange was in a strong financial position. He said it had replaced 95% of the roughly $6.3 billion stolen in last week’s hack, the largest on record.
China unveiled a CBDC cooperation and a 30 billion yuan currency swap memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Oman. The deals reopen inroads for Beijing’s digital yuan to penetrate into the Gulf region as the world’s second largest economy moves on roughly six weeks after news…
Ark Invest bought $3.4 million of Coinbase shares on November 2 as Morgan Stanley cut the stock to underweight with a $120 target.
Russian prosecutors from the Ivanovo area arraigned five men on charges related to a kidnapping to extract 10.4 BTC from a programmer. The defendants, mostly ex-convicts, face up to 15 years on these new charges.
South Korea’s president wants one strong agency to lead the country’s fight against hackers. Following a huge crypto theft at Binance and several attacks on Korean financial firms, President Lee Jae Myung has asked officials to study the idea of building an agency.
Blockchain investigator ZachXBT noted Tuesday that the still undisclosed crypto loss at an unnamed Western European institution has climbed past $133 million, up from the $106 million figure he cited one day earlier.
Binance's SAFU wallet holds 7,500 BTC after a 7,499 BTC transfer on October 31 tied to its $6.3 billion hack, with no timeline to refill it.
Crypto altcoins and tokens contracted in October, cutting short the trend of increasing crypto market breadth.
NEAR's House of Stake approved HSP-029, cutting max issuance from 2.5% to 1.6%. The proposal models staking yield falling from about 5.27% to 3.37%.
The Binance attacker moved all 233.46 million stolen XRP into six fresh wallets on Monday. Native XRP has no issuer that can freeze it.
North Korea's Kim Yo Jong called the FBI's Binance hack attribution "absurd rhetoric" and a "grave political provocation" in a November 2 statement.
Stablecoin card spending on the Solana network reached a record $141.1 million in October, according to data from Paymentscan. This makes it the fourth consecutive monthly high for stablecoin card spending on the network.
Following Binance’s roughly $6.3 billion hack, the FBI asked THORChain node operators and other decentralized finance (DeFi) services to block transactions linked to the stolen funds. The request came on October 31.
Animoca Brands has successfully crossed a major hurdle in Abu Dhabi. On November 2, it announced that its subsidiary had received permission from the authorities to operate collective investment funds.
Mercado Bitcoin froze deposits and withdrawals on Monday, November 2, following a breach of one of its systems. The exchange, which is the largest in Brazil, says no customer lost money and that it will cover the losses itself.
Binance has provided new statistics that back its commitment to protecting customers after a hack that cost $6.3 billion. The company conducted a cryptographic verification of its reserves snapshot as of October 31 on Monday.
SBI Holdings will invest $100 million in Erebor Bank, the Ohio-based digital lender co-founded by Anduril’s Palmer Luckey. The deal gives SBI Holdings exposure to U.S. banking and round-the-clock blockchain settlement. Why is SBI Holdings investing in Erebor Bank?
A targeted review has been launched on nations with lots of crypto activity. The review will be run by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), with particular focus on countries with anti-money-laundering regulation but with a low enforcement rate.
An organization based in the European Union may have had more than $106 million drained from several of its centralized exchange accounts. Reports state that the thief rapidly converted the stolen funds into Ether and then the privacy coin Monero.
BitMine Immersion Technologies has reported that its Ether (ETH) holdings have reached 6.06 million tokens, part of $14.5 billion in crypto, cash, and marketable securities.
Strategy acquired 811 BTC and repurchased STRC for $208.2M, with a mix of new MSTR ATM sales and some of the company's cash reserves.
South Korea’s Financial Services Commission (FSC) called in the country’s largest crypto exchanges on Monday to inspect their defenses after about $6.4 billion was drained from Binance. The FBI has blamed the Binance hack on North Korea.
Metaplanet (TYO: 3350) confirmed early cash repayment of its ¥8 billion in bonds on Monday, a move that frees a corresponding amount of money to fund the firm’s Bitcoin accumulation plans.
Binance customers pulled a net ~$3.64 billion, or 2.1% of its $171 billion in assets, after the exchange reopened withdrawals on November 1.
Anza and Tim Garcia told Solana validators on Ubuntu to block IPv4-option TCP packets and disable MPTCP until Ubuntu patches CVE-2026-98432.
Initia is back online per an early Monday announcement confirming that its layer-1 blockchain and rollups are processing transactions once again, writing that “the Initia L1 and rollups are now online and operational.” The network restart ends an over-nine-day halt initiated by the project on…
XDC Network and Keyban have partnered to let AI agents hold their own accounts and pay for services, without companies giving up control of their funds.
BTCPay Server founder Nicolas Dorier said hot-wallet sweeps appear to hit servers older than 2.4.2, where an attacker logged in as admin.
BlackRock's IBIT and Fidelity's FBTC led a $643.3 million US spot bitcoin ETF outflow on October 30, one day after a $6.3 billion hack hit Binance.