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Attack Timeline: Blockchain data shows attackers continued to drain funds from thousands of customer deposit addresses for roughly four hours after Mercado Bitcoin stated the breach had been contained.
Recovery Proposal: Binance and Polymarket support a Polygon hard fork that would recover 70.49 million POL tokens worth about $6.8 million from five attacker-controlled addresses.
Infrastructure replacement: ApeChain replaces LayerZero’s solution with Chainlink CCIP as its canonical cross-chain interoperability standard. Asset upgrades: APE, USDC, and other core tokens will migrate to Chainlink’s Cross-Chain Token (CCT) standard.
Bitcoin broke the $80,000 barrier during the session, printing an intraday high of $81,000 before settling around $78,297. Liquidations across the global crypto derivatives market exceeded $950 million in 24 hours, with more than $560 million stemming from short positions.
Formal request: The Digital Chamber submitted a formal comment letter to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) outlining eight recommendations to adapt transfer agent rules to distributed networks.
Democratic lawmakers are preparing subpoenas and accounting record requests tied to Trump’s crypto ventures and associated entities like World Liberty Financial. Representatives designated for key committees, including Jamie Raskin and Robert Garcia, plan to trigger oversight authorities and interrogate witnesses under oath.
Coinbase Prime launches institutional access to Deribit options and perpetual contracts across more than 20 digital assets. Eligible American traders gain entry to global derivatives liquidity under CFTC oversight through Coinbase Financial Markets.
The XRP Ledger (XRPL) network activated the technical amendment fixCleanup3_4_0 after reaching over 94% consensus among its trusted validators. The update fixes a potential vulnerability in delegated token issuance permissions and directly optimizes the operation of automated market makers (AMM) and on-chain lending protocols.
A federal grand jury in New York indicted Ryan James Roach and Mathiew James Stubbings for conspiracy, information theft, and intentional damage to protected systems.
The official Shiba Inu team endorsed a community post on X, reigniting the discussion around a $1 valuation. The shared infographic recorded SHIB at $0.000012, a figure that doubles its actual current market price.
The three largest political action committees linked to cryptocurrencies amassed an estimated expenditure of $170 million during the U.S. election cycle. Political action groups focused on artificial intelligence reported disbursements of approximately $72 million over the same period.
Circle’s USDC captured 79% of total stablecoin transaction volume in Q3 2026, reaching $13.9 trillion on-chain as network adoption accelerated. Daily issuance and redemption activity averaged $2.3 billion, driving the total quarterly volume of minting and redeeming operations to $208 billion.
Michael Saylor stated this Wednesday that the outcome of the midterm elections in Florida and Texas demonstrates that support for strategic Bitcoin reserves transcends party lines.
The Legislative Council of Hong Kong passed the Inland Revenue (Amendment) Bill 2026 on November 4, 2026, to implement the OECD’s Crypto-Asset Reporting Framework (CARF). Digital asset service providers must register and begin collecting tax identification and transaction data starting January 1, 2027.
Custody transfer completed: Riot Platforms finalized the formal transfer of its digital assets from NYDIG Trust Company to BitGo Bank & Trust. Dissolution of previous agreement: The termination of the custody contract with NYDIG was executed automatically upon completion of the fund migration, incurring no…
TRUMP plunged 22.15% to $1.23, while World Liberty Financial’s WLFI declined 7.22% to $0.04 over the past 24 hours. Democrats secured control of both chambers of Congress, increasing political uncertainty surrounding Trump’s cryptocurrency initiatives.
Coinbase holds more than 99% of its customer assets in cold, offline storage. This was confirmed by Brian Armstrong, who added that he aims to reassure users and reaffirm the strength of its custody infrastructure following the hot wallet exploit of over $6.3 billion suffered…
Robert Kiyosaki sees Bitcoin’s next crash as a potential buying opportunity rather than a reason to leave the market. The Rich Dad Poor Dad author says he has continued buying Bitcoin, gold, and silver during recent market weakness.
Bitcoin recovered into the $77,000-$80,000 support band after testing its $75,839 short-term holder cost basis, but Bitfinex says the rebound remains leverage-driven. U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs recorded $1.16 billion in net outflows from October 30 to November 2, while BlackRock’s IBIT lost $405.3 million.
21X AG and LayerZero completed a pilot running 21X’s onchain central limit order book on a private instance of Zero using U.S. equity tokens.
Morgan Stanley began tokenizing U.S. equities and Treasurys through DTCC’s Tokenization Service, becoming one of the first banks to use the infrastructure. DTCC’s service creates tokenized representations of securities held at its depository subsidiary and initially supports Canton Network and a Besu network.
A Nova Scotia judge ordered a laptop holding William Sandeson’s Bitcoin wallet returned after prosecutors failed to link it directly to Taylor Samson’s murder.
Schroders is bringing its emerging-markets bond strategy to Solana through Centrifuge, marking the asset manager’s first deployment on the blockchain. Investors will hold tokenized shares in a feeder fund that invests in Schroders’ underlying Emerging Market Bond Fund, with share values tracking net asset value.…
Zcash Community Grants withdrew a proposal to redirect 98,000 ZEC toward mining rewards after community criticism, returning the issue to Zcash’s governance process.
Canton Network’s CC token traded near $0.0955 on November 4, up about 1.18% over 24 hours, according to CoinMarketCap, after the SEC’s Division of Corporation Finance issued a no-action response on November 3.
ZachXBT identified Crédit Mutuel Arkéa as the alleged victim of a crypto theft exceeding $133 million after tracing withdrawals from centralized exchange accounts.
THORChain’s native token RUNE rose about 9.5% over 24 hours to roughly $0.63, according to CoinMarketCap, after the protocol restored swapping across most of its supported networks. The restart followed a temporary halt triggered by an Ethereum reorganization and refund-related issue.
South Korea’s ruling Democratic Party is seeking a two-year delay to its crypto gains tax, currently scheduled to begin in January 2027, which would become the fourth postponement.
Sanctions request: Justin Sun seeks $263,821.20 from World Liberty Financial and its lawyers, alleging a misleading ownership disclosure in a dispute over his $45 million WLFI investment.
Ethereum Foundation researcher Justin Drake has set December 2028 as an aspirational target for completing Ethereum’s post-quantum and post-AI transition. Speaking at Devcon 8 in Mumbai, Drake said developers have roughly 24 months to deliver three additional network upgrades.