Exchanges news
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Mercado Bitcoin Said Its Hack Was Contained, But Blockchain Data Tells a Different Story
Fresh forensic analysis traces $48.6 million across 11 blockchains and finds thousands of customer deposit addresses drained hours after the Brazilian exchange said it had stopped the breach on Monday.
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Kalshi, Coinbase stock perps under threat ahead of CFTC deadline
Tomorrow will be a climactic moment in a competitive battle between the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE), Kalshi, and Coinbase over stock “perps,” a crypto-inspired derivative that uses perpetually-rolling futures funding to create leveraged instruments for betting on stock prices. Despite a...
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Binance, Deribit revoke SignalPlus API keys after fake Teams invite attack
SignalPlus said attackers compromised an engineer’s computer in a breach that resulted in losses of less than $82,000, which the crypto trading platform pledged to reimburse in full.
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Fed, OCC check US banks after Binance hack as experts flag security risks
US regulators reportedly contacted banks following last week’s $6.3 billion Binance security hack, while experts raised concerns about transaction security and crypto risks.
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Bull Bitcoin Becomes First Exchange to Add Payjoin Privacy Deposits, Withdrawals, and Payjoin-by-Default Trading
Bitcoin Magazine Bull Bitcoin Becomes First Exchange to Add Payjoin Privacy Deposits, Withdrawals, and Payjoin-by-Default Trading Bull Bitcoin announced deep Payjoin integration with its exchange, claiming to be the first Bitcoin exchange in the world to offer Payjoin as a deposit and withdrawal...
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What is TraderTraitor, the hacking squad behind the $6.3 billion Binance heist
The hacking group has been behind some of the crypto industry's most recent high-profile thefts.
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U.S.-Sanctioned Moscow Exchange Will List Bitcoin on Dec. 1 as Russia Pulls Crypto Trading Home
Bitcoin Magazine U.S.-Sanctioned Moscow Exchange Will List Bitcoin on Dec. 1 as Russia Pulls Crypto Trading Home Moscow Exchange, Russia's largest trading venue, will begin trading bitcoin, ether and Tether's USDT on Dec. 1, the exchange announced this week, calling it the country's first organized...
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Fed and OCC Quiz U.S. Banks After $6.3 Billion Binance Hack
Bitcoin Magazine Fed and OCC Quiz U.S. Banks After $6.3 Billion Binance Hack U.S. bank regulators contacted banks this week to check whether their systems had any vulnerabilities after last week's $6.3 billion hack of Binance, Reuters reported Thursday, citing several people familiar with the...
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Binance Asks ArbitrumDAO to Release Frozen ETH and ARB
The draft would let recovered assets replenish reserves used to cover customer losses. Binance expects the governance process to take seven weeks or longer.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Binance hack spooks US gov’t into checking on banks, report
Spooked US regulators are reportedly contacting banks to probe for unusual activity or disruptions in the wake of the $6.3 billion Binance hack. US banks are also trying to learn from the hack and are reportedly checking their own security systems to figure out if they're prepared to respond to a...
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Gate CEO says crypto exchanges must prove they can survive a hack like Binance’s
Lin Han says Gate holds enough assets in cold storage to cover customer balances even if its hot wallets are emptied. An independent audit is underway.
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Kraken parent Payward and its clients buy AAVE tokens in DeFi investment push
The investment follows talks first reported by CoinDesk in June that included a proposed equity stake in Aave Group.
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Tether and Tron Quietly Scrapped T3 Crime Unit Two Months Before $6.3 Billion Binance Hack
Bitcoin Magazine Tether and Tron Quietly Scrapped T3 Crime Unit Two Months Before $6.3 Billion Binance Hack The T3 Financial Crime Unit, the anti-crime alliance Tron, Tether and TRM Labs launched in 2024 and later expanded to Binance, quietly shut down in late August, Bloomberg reported Wednesday,...
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Binance drops SignalPlus API keys after potential hack
Binance has removed all of its API keys associated with crypto trading terminal SignalPlus as an “immediate precautionary measure” following a potential hack at the third-party firm. Binance posted today to its X account, “Binance's own systems are unaffected. User funds remain safe.” Crypto...
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Binance cuts SignalPlus access after security warning, urges users to check accounts
The exchange says its systems are unaffected but has removed trading connections to the third-party platform as a precaution.
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Binance Cuts Off SignalPlus API Keys Over 'Potential Security Issue' at Trading Platform
The exchange said its own systems and user funds are unaffected, a week after it lost $6.4 billion in a hack blamed on North Korea.
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Thailand Sets Dec. 5 Bitget Block As Local Exchange Deal Awaits Approval
Seller GMO Internet has pushed the planned share transfer to Nov. 30 while it works through Thai regulatory procedures.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Thailand to block Bitget in December over unlicensed crypto trading
Thailand’s SEC filed a criminal complaint against Bitget’s operator, with access to its website and app set to be blocked from Dec. 5.
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Paraguay USDT Offers Show 13% Premium After Ueno Closure
Bybit listings show a sharp gap between buying and selling USDT, while Paraguay’s central bank prepares deposit-guarantee payments for Ueno savers.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Binance Revokes SignalPlus API Keys After Security Warning
The exchange told SignalPlus users to review positions and open orders directly on Binance and wait for confirmation of a full resolution before reconnecting.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Mercado Bitcoin hack continued hours after exchange said attack was contained, report finds
The same attacker took about $391,000, mostly from wallets Bitquery ties to BitMart, whose founder confirmed a Nov. 2 hack and suspects a link.
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Binance, Polymarket seek Polygon hard fork to recover $6.8M in stolen crypto
Polygon block producers have already frozen the stolen tokens, but a proposed hard fork would allow the funds to be recovered and returned to their owners.
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Trump Media moves $342 million in bitcoin to Crypto.com, blockchain data show
A wallet supposedly linked to Trump Media has made a large BTC transfer to Crypto.com, data tracked by Arkham show.
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OKX–ICE Stock Venue’s Issuer Objections Reach 62
Boeing and ServiceNow’s objections leave eight of the venture’s 63 originally proposed symbols without a disclosed opt-out.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Trump Media-Linked Wallets Send 4,259 BTC to Crypto.com
The movement equals about 30% of the bitcoin treasury disclosed for July 31. Arkham labels both sending wallets as convertible-note collateral.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Mercado Bitcoin Plans View-Only Reopening on Nov. 9 After Hack
The exchange says it will use company funds to replace affected assets, while withdrawals and trading await security clearance.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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BitMart founder says security team ‘severely understaffed’ after new hack
The crypto exchange’s founder warned of security staffing shortages amid restructuring as analysts flagged suspicious transfers potentially linked to the Mercado Bitcoin hack.
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Judge Lets Stock Perpetual Futures Keep Trading but Says CFTC Likely Overstepped Its Authority
Bitcoin Magazine Judge Lets Stock Perpetual Futures Keep Trading but Says CFTC Likely Overstepped Its Authority Stock perpetual futures can keep trading on Kalshi, Coinbase Derivatives and Bitnomial for now after a federal judge denied an emergency bid to halt them Tuesday, while finding that the...
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Google Tells Schools They Can Reject AI—But They'll Lose Search, Too
Google is giving schools more control over Gemini, but districts that want Search without AI are out of luck, fueling accusations that the company is pressuring educators into adopting AI.
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Coinbase Says 99% of Customer Crypto Is Offline and Out of Hackers’ Reach
Coinbase told customers it wasn’t affected by the $6.4 billion Binance hack and detailed its security controls, including offline storage for over 99% of assets, split private keys and kill switches.