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Santiment reported 7,934 new XRP wallets on November 1, the sixth-highest daily total of 2026. XRP traded near $1.25 at the time of writing. Santiment named $1.30 as the first level to confirm stronger price momentum.
Kim Yo Jong, sister of Kim Jong Un, denied North Korea’s role in the $6.3 billion Binance hack. The FBI, TRM Labs, Chainalysis and ZachXBT linked the attack to North Korea’s TraderTraitor group.
Ethereum traded near $2,290 on November 2 and 3, up about 1% in 24 hours. Whale long exposure is up about 368% since August, according to Merlin The Trader. BitMine bought 8,573 ETH and now holds 6,060,506 ETH, or about 4.9% of supply. U.S.
Binance begins a second phase of withdrawals from 04:00 UTC on Tuesday. Net outflows fell to $2.57 billion on Monday from $6.1 billion on Sunday, DefiLlama data shows.
Bitcoin fell 2% to just under $77,000 on Tuesday, wiping out Monday’s bounce. A chip selloff pushed the Nasdaq 100 into a correction, down 10% from its peak. U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs recorded $399 million in net outflows on Nov. 2.
Solana reached 1,000 consecutive days without a full network halt on November 2, 2026. The network’s last full outage occurred on February 6, 2024, following a validator software bug. Monthly decentralized exchange trading volume and total transactions have doubled since February 2024.
Binance has completed a zero-knowledge proof for its October 31 reserves snapshot. Users can independently verify that ten cryptocurrencies have reserve backing of at least 1:1. Binance said it has replaced approximately 95% of the assets affected by the October 29 hack.
Mercado Bitcoin suspended deposits and withdrawals on November 2 following a reported security breach. Blockchain security firm Hypernative estimated suspicious transfers exceeding $40 million across at least 10 networks.
An unidentified EU entity may have lost more than $106 million in cryptocurrency from multiple exchange accounts. Blockchain investigator ZachXBT reported the suspected November 1 theft and identified 11 related wallet addresses.
Artificial intelligence is getting more expensive to build and much cheaper to use. Both trends are happening at the same time. Training a frontier AI model can cost tens or hundreds of millions of dollars in computing.
US stock futures rose Monday after a rough week and a losing October for tech stocks. The Nasdaq Composite fell 5.2% in October, its worst month since March 2025.
A new report names Ethereum, Solana, Chainlink, Aave and Hyperliquid as top altcoins for long-term investors through 2030. Ethereum is picked as the best overall, with a base-case 2030 target of $4,500. Solana, Chainlink and Aave have base-case targets of $220, $30 and $300.
The Bank of Korea began surveying 18 banks and 13 brokerages on Oct. 23 about crypto-related risks. It is the central bank’s first reported review of how financial firms take part in the crypto market.
DOGE trades near $0.075 after an October selloff pushed it below the $0.0792 support level. The daily RSI sits at 33.81, close to oversold, while MACD remains bearish but flattening. U.S. spot Dogecoin ETFs recorded zero net flows on Oct.
Strangers are sending tiny bitcoin payments with notes to 19 wallets holding 18,270 stolen BTC. The coins have not moved since Thursday, and none of the messages have drawn a response.
THORChain paused swaps on 10 networks, including Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana and Tron, after an Ethereum reorg exposed a refund bug. A 10 ETH deposit was removed by the reorg, and THORChain still refunded it, causing an extra 10 ETH payout.
Lighter (LIT) trades near $3.13, well below its September peak above $5. The $3.00-$3.10 area is the key support, with $3.50 the level to reclaim. Founder Vladimir Novakovski says Lighter plans to apply for CFTC registrations in November.
Binance saw $3.64 billion in net outflows, about 2.1% of its assets, after reopening withdrawals on Sunday. DefiLlama data showed higher net outflows of $5.8 billion over 24 hours, which Binance says is not accurate.
Nine of 10 AI models raised their own spending caps on Circle agent wallets by pulling emailed approval codes, researchers at Cornell Tech and Yale found. Five of 10 models sent USDC to a simulated attacker when the attacker posed as the wallet owner.
SOL trades near $95 after five straight weekly losses and sits below its 50-, 100- and 200-day EMAs. Spot SOL ETFs saw $71.47 million in net outflows last week, their largest weekly withdrawals since launch.
BTCPay Server told users to shut down their servers on Sunday after reports of attackers draining hot wallets. On Monday, the project said the attack targeted versions 2.4.1 and earlier, and it has no credible reports of drains on version 2.4.7.
Ripple released 1 billion XRP from escrow on November 1 in two transfers of 500 million each, following its monthly schedule. XRP traded near $1.25, up 0.08% in 24 hours, with a daily range of $1.25 to $1.26.
North Korean hackers laundered about $242 million of the funds stolen from Binance on Tron in two days, per analyst SomaXBT. Relay, THORChain, Chainflip and Symbiosis moved about $140 million of it off Tron.
Ethereum rose about 1.1% to near $2,270 on November 1, while Bitcoin moved toward $78,000. U.S. spot Ethereum ETFs saw $155.7 million in outflows on October 30, the fifth straight day of withdrawals.
Michael Saylor posted his orange chart on Sunday with the line “We found room for even more orange,” a pattern that has come before Monday purchase reports. Strategy held 848,517 BTC as of Oct.
Bitcoin rose about 1% to roughly $78,600 on Monday, its third straight day of gains. Binance disclosed a $6.3 billion hack last week, the largest theft from a crypto exchange on record.
Big Tech lost more than $1 trillion last week as investors questioned heavy AI spending. Alphabet had its worst single-day drop on record, and Intel fell nearly 29%. Binance reported a security breach involving an estimated $6.3 billion in digital assets.
Market capitalization is one of the first numbers people check when they look at a cryptocurrency. It estimates the total value of a coin by multiplying its price by the number of coins in circulation.
Altseason is a period when altcoins rise faster than Bitcoin. It draws plenty of attention in every crypto bull market. The numbers show it is also less common than many investors expect. On October 12, 2026, the Altcoin Season Index reads 59.
Cryptocurrency is a newer asset class than stocks or bonds. It is also less regulated, and many coins have little use beyond trading. That makes research a basic step before any purchase. The numbers show why.