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Bitcoin Slips Below $80,000 After Fed Holds Rates and Tech Shares Weaken
Bitcoin slipped below $80,000 in early October 29 trading as markets digested the Federal Reserve’s decision to leave rates unchanged and the accompanying.
Bitcoin, ether and XRP selloff wipes out $1.5 billion in leveraged crypto bets
Bets on rising prices accounted for nearly 84% of forced closures, with Binance handling almost half the total. A rebound has since started catching short sellers.
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Need to know what happened in crypto today? Here is the latest news on daily trends and events impacting Bitcoin price, blockchain, DeFi, Web3 and crypto regulation.
Ethereum Client Updates Address Certificate Risk in Teku and Besu
Ethereum software teams have published updates addressing trust-store exposure tied to compromised certificate-authority keys from eMudhra. For ETH.
Strategy eyes more Bitcoin buys as Saylor touts $30B credit capacity
Michael Saylor says Strategy could create up to $30 billion in digital credit without new common-stock fundraising or further Bitcoin price gains, as the company plans more BTC pur…
North Korea’s TraderTraitor linked to $6.3B Binance hack
TRM Labs says it has high confidence in the attribution, while ZachXBT identified stolen funds from the Binance and Bitget hacks converging at the same address.
XRP Ledger developers tighten the rules for who can hold 'restricted' tokens
A set of fixes would tighten who can hold permissioned tokens on the network. The XRP Ledger Foundation says no users were affected.
Binance hack bites India's largest crypto exchange as it curbs futures trading
CoinDCX has restricted new futures positions after Binance’s security incident disrupted a key liquidity provider. Deposits, withdrawals and customer funds remain unaffected, the e…
Mirae Asset Issues Tokenized Dollar Notes on Solana for Professional Investors
Mirae Asset Securities’ Hong Kong unit announced the completion of a tokenized funding-note issuance on Solana for eligible institutional investors. For.
Binance hacker splits $1.4 billion of bitcoin into 19 wallets that no one can freeze
All 18,270 coins sit in 19 wallets, 17 of them holding exactly 1,000 BTC each, and none has moved since Thursday night, a CoinDesk trace of the blockchain shows.
$6 billion Binance hack sends bitcoin, ether tumbling; Standard Chartered expects more pain
Bitcoin and ether slid after a suspected $6.3 billion Binance security breach and a Polymarket exploit. Standard Chartered says crypto prices may remain under pressure before findi…
Kamino Opens Solana Lending Market for Backpack Tokenized Equity Collateral
Kamino has launched a dedicated Backpack Market on Solana allowing eligible users to post selected Backpack Securities tokenized equities as collateral for.
Institutional crypto investors rush to pull funds from exchanges after Binance hack
The withdrawals suggest the fallout from the multibillion-dollar breach is spreading beyond Binance.
Binance hack could accelerate shift to DEXs: Standard Chartered
Standard Chartered’s Geoffrey Kendrick says the breach could accelerate a shift toward decentralized trading and strengthen his case for Uniswap’s UNI token reaching $100 by 2030.
Crypto's longtime foe, North Korea's Lazarus Group, likely behind Binance hack: blockchain sleuths
Security researchers suggested that the hermit kingdom's Lazarus Group was behind Thursday's nearly $6 billion hack of the world's largest crypto exchange.
Stellar Unveils Thruput With Multi-Million-Transaction Execution Benchmarks
The Stellar Development Foundation introduced Project Thruput on October 28 as a technology preview that changes how a blockchain execution engine can.
Bitcoin slides below $77,000, BNB drops amid Binance hack
BNB lost 7.1%, while Binance Co-CEO Yi He pledged that the exchange will cover all user losses resulting from the hack.
Google Cloud Previews Institutional Crypto Key-Security Service as Custody Risks Grow
Google Cloud has documented a Multi-party Compute service for institutional digital-asset custody, describing threshold signing, transaction policy.
Robinhood Crypto Revenue Falls 55% as Prediction Markets Support Growth
Robinhood reported third-quarter 2026 results on October 27, with total net revenue of about $1.42 billion, up 12% from the comparable period a year.
Binance hack drained wallets backing customer assets, reserve data shows
Binance’s own reserve data lists the drained wallets as backing customer balances, leaving its ether backing an estimated 6% short until the exchange replaces what was stolen.
Binance points to engineer’s hacked laptop in $6.3B breach
Binance says attackers may have used a compromised DevOps laptop to access internal infrastructure.
Circle and ACI Bring USDC Settlement Into Latin American Payment Operations
ACI Worldwide and Circle announced a collaboration on October 27 to demonstrate how USDC settlement can fit into payment systems that banks already.
Binance hack rattles markets as BNB falls 8%, Bitcoin nears $77K
Bitcoin, Ether and the broader crypto market took a dive as Binance suffered a multibillion-dollar hack.
DBS Survey Finds 88% of Businesses Testing or Using Tokenized Money
A DBS survey published October 28 found that 88% of businesses in its sample were deploying or piloting tokenized-money use cases. Crypto traders sometimes.
Binance Hacker Hunts for Exit Ramps as DeFi Exchanges Pause Markets
Etherscan records show wallets tied to the suspected Binance hack swapping freezable stablecoins for Ethereum on decentralized exchanges.
Tampered Ledger reported in Singapore a month before news broke: Asia Express
Singapore police say tampered Ledgers started showing up there on September 10. South Korean lawmakers look set to delay the crypto tax law for a fourth time.
Binance investigating hack as suspicious outflows reach up to $5.8 billion
Tether and Circle froze $1.79 billion in USDT and USDC after billions moved out of Binance hot wallets. Binance says it is investigating.
Binance Drained of $5.5 Billion in Suspected Hack, Tether and Circle Freeze $1.8 Billion
An on-chain tally puts the suspected Binance drain at $5.57 billion across three blockchains, as Tether and Circle froze $1.8 billion.
Binance investigates multibillion-dollar security breach
Binance is investigating a potential multibillion-dollar security breach that is estimated to have impacted $6.3 billion in funds.
Binance loses over $6 billion in 'biggest crypto hack in history'
Crypto prices are sliding on the news, with bitcoin falling back to $77,000, though Binance's co-CEO said it would cover all losses.
Strategy reports $19.5 billion in Q3 net income as preferred shareholders approve daily dividends
Strategy reported $19.53B in Q3 net income on a $20.91B bitcoin gain, holds 848,517 BTC, and moves preferreds to daily dividends.
Coinbase Swings to $719 Million Q3 Profit on Crypto Gains
Coinbase reported third-quarter net income of $719 million, driven largely by gains on its crypto holdings, as revenue held flat at $1.22 billion.
Public companies double share of blockchain revenue since 2022: Report
A new 1kx report finds that public companies are capturing a larger share of blockchain revenue, driven by institutional adoption and real-world applications.
Chrome Can Now Pull Details From Your Gmail to Fill Out Web Forms
Chrome's new autofill uses Google's Gemini AI to search your Gmail for order numbers, tracking details, and flight bookings and fill them into web forms. It is rolling out in the U…
Polymarket suspended trading amid reports of user funds being drained
The prediction markets platform halted trading on Thursday after it reported one of its third party providers had been compromised.
Polymarket resumes trading after $2.65 million exploit, says third-party provider was compromised
After over $2.5 million was lost within minutes on Polymarket, the platform said it has since placed its exchange in cancel-only mode.
Polymarket suspends trading after third-party breach leads to user losses
Polymarket said one of its third-party providers was breached after users reported seeing their accounts drained.
Polymarket Pauses Trading as Prediction Market Investigates Security Incident
Polymarket restricted trading and paused relayer actions as users report funds leaving their accounts. A suspected attacker wallet holds about $2.65 million in POL, per Arkham data…
Hackers Publish Work Details of 41,000 Homeland Security Employees
A hacktivist group says it took names, titles, and phone numbers of 41,000-plus DHS staff from a login system.
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