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UPDATE: 🚨 Binance estimates the total impact of the incident at ~$6.3B and says all user losses will be covered by its SAFU fund and company funds.
The exploit may have involved a compromised DevOps engineer's laptop that allowed an attacker to submit unauthorized withdrawal transactions, with Binance finding no evidence of a private key leak.
Binance's initial investigation suggests that the security incident may involve a compromised DevOps engineer’s laptop, which allowed an attacker to gain access to a service container and submit unauthorized withdrawal transactions. We have found no evidence of any wallet private key leak. We will share a detailed technical post-mortem once the investigation is complete and the facts are fully verified.
The estimated total impact sits at around $6.3B. We have worked with blockchain partners to freeze affected assets, with ~$3 billion frozen on-chain so far.
Binance will cover all losses from the SAFU fund and the company’s funds. User funds are safe. We will also publish an updated Proof of Reserves once the remediation is complete.
As an immediate precaution, Binance has:
- temporarily suspended deposits and withdrawals while security checks are completed;
- revoked the affected address authorisation;
- engaged law enforcement and blockchain intelligence partners to trace and recover funds.
Our teams are working around the clock to resolve this issue safely and thoroughly. We are working closely with our law enforcement partners to confirm the identity of these criminals and bring them to justice.
Please rely only on official Binance channels for updates. Please feel free to contact Binance Customer Support if you have any further questions.
binance.com/en/support/annou…
CMC Asset Watch: SpaceX Faced a New Share-Supply Test
🔹 Most megacaps moved far less than SpaceX over the period.
🔹 Its sharpest drop came October 22, when a Q3-linked lockup provision made more shares eligible for sale.
🔹 That created potential supply. Eligibility is not proof that all those shares were sold.
UPDATE: 🚨 Binance says around $3B in assets have now been frozen, pledging to cover all user losses as it works with law enforcement and industry partners to trace and freeze additional assets.
The exchange reminds users to rely only on official Binance channels for updates.
Update: The current verified total frozen amount is around $3 billion.
Our teams continue to work closely with law enforcement, issuers, blockchain intelligence firms and industry partners to trace and freeze additional assets.
We will only share confirmed figures and will provide further updates as more verified information becomes available. User funds are safe.
CMC Asset Watch: SpaceX Faced a New Share-Supply Test
🔹 Most megacaps moved far less than SpaceX over the period.
🔹 Its sharpest drop came October 22, when a Q3-linked lockup provision made more shares eligible for sale.
🔹 That created potential supply. Eligibility is not proof that all those shares were sold.
LATEST: 📊 Chainalysis says Sub-Saharan Africa's crypto economy grew 13.4% to $101B, the fastest pace globally, with South Africa's 52% jump to $39.3B leading the region.
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User funds are safe!
It does look like a hack on Binance. Appreciate the quick freeze from Tether (~$971m) and Circle (~$823m).
I don't manage Binance (.com) anymore, but as a shareholder, I expect all user funds will be fully covered.
LATEST: ⚡️ Franklin Templeton launched two ETFs that let investors build Bitcoin exposure over time by reinvesting US equity dividends into BTC, starting with a 95% equity and 5% Bitcoin allocation.
LATEST: ⚡ Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse told Bloomberg that “XRP is at the heart of everything Ripple does,” and that anyone who doesn’t think so “is kind of missing the big picture.”
🔗 CoinMarketCap | Chain Ranking 🔗
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Chain Ranking puts them all on one leaderboard!
🔹 Rank chains by DEX volume, led by Solana at $17B
🔹 Compare value locked, led by Ethereum at $46.37B
🔹 Find Robinhood Chain with 479.34K traders a week
Compare all chains here 👇
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CMC Asset Watch: Miners Bounced Harder Than Bitcoin
🔹 RIOT, CLSK and MARA rose together on October 27 and 28. BTC's rise on the 27th was only about 1%.
🔹 The pattern fits relief after a sharp sector selloff, with AI-infrastructure stocks recovering after Anthropic's IPO filing. No single catalyst has been verified for all three miners.
🔹 A two-day rebound does not settle miners' operating costs or AI-project financing.
CMC Asset Watch: BNB Was the Only Major in Green
🔹 BNB gained about 2.8% as BTC, ETH, SOL and XRP finished lower.
🔹 Its strongest move came on October 28. The token burn often cited as support happened October 19, before this window.
🔹 Bitcoin ETFs recorded $356M in net outflows from October 22–28. Three days of inflows were not enough to offset the earlier selling.
The Fed decided. Did crypto leverage get flushed? 👀
See how the market reacted with CoinMarketCap on @claudeai 👇
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🔹 BTC, ETH and SOL moves
🔹 Long vs short liquidations
🔹 The latest Fed headline
Try asking: “Did leverage get flushed after the Fed decision? Show me the liquidation data and how the majors reacted.”
CMC Asset Watch: Gas Rebounded as Brent and Silver Slipped
🔹 Natural gas rebounded after October 26 as near-term demand forecasts and LNG feedgas improved.
🔹 Brent and silver ended lower.
CMC Asset Watch: Treasuries Drew Buyers as Tech Sold Off
🔹 The US 10-year yield fell about 10 basis points, with the biggest move on October 22.
🔹 Investors bought Treasuries as AI-spending worries hit equities and French bond stress raised demand for safety. Yields later regained part of the decline.
🔹 The near-2% change describes the yield level, not the bond's price return.
🤖 CoinMarketCap | Agentic Charts 🤖
$NEAR fell 6.87% today, after a rally that took it from $1.54 to $6.00.
We asked our agent to draw the Fibonacci retracement of that rally.
🔹 The agent drew 5 levels from $2.49 up to $4.95
🔹 NEAR trades at $4.41, between $4.30 and $4.95
🔹 If it falls below $4.30, the next one is $3.77
Which of these levels are you watching on $NEAR?
Try Agentic Charts here 👇
coinmarketcap.com/cmc-ai/age…
CMC Asset Watch: Security Had Buyers While Much of AI Sold Off
🔹 CRWD and NET jumped on October 23 as channel checks pointed to firmer security budgets.
🔹 Cloudflare was defending sites against an active PHP exploit; CrowdStrike was extending AI-agent security with NVIDIA.
🔹 NET later gave back more of its jump. Budget intentions still need to become sales.
HOT TOPIC: AI found 3 bugs that can crash bitcoin:native nodes ⚠️
The headline bug, lets a peer crash nodes on Windows and Mac. Linux is unaffected. Fix shipped in 5 days. No funds at risk, no attacks observed.
Is Bitcoin in danger? 👇
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CMC Asset Watch: Memory's Rally Found an Earnings Receipt
🔹 The seven-day rally was already under way before SK hynix reported on October 28.
🔹 Its results confirmed higher memory prices and signed agreements covering more than half of planned 2027–28 production.
🔹 Seagate's record profit and cash flow supplied a separate reason for the hard-drive rebound.
LATEST: ⚡️ NYSE parent ICE is partnering with Trade[XYZ] to build a US-regulated perpetual futures market on Hyperliquid, subject to CFTC approval.
