Exchanges news
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Bitcoin rebounds past $80,000 as markets shrug off midterms and Binance hack
Bitcoin rose 3.5% to $80,500 and ether jumped 6% after Democrats won Congress, while Bitwise says the Binance hack had limited market impact.
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What Are Privacy Coins? Bitcoin, Monero and Zcash Compared
Monero requires privacy mechanisms for ordinary transfers, while Zcash supports transparent and shielded modes. Neither erases an exchange’s identity records.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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What Is x402? How AI Agents Pay With Crypto
Coinbase's x402 protocol puts the web's long-unused 402 code to work so AI agents and apps can pay for APIs and data in stablecoins like USDC.
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Democrats to Target Trump’s Crypto Ventures After Taking Congress
Bitcoin Magazine Democrats to Target Trump’s Crypto Ventures After Taking Congress House Democrats plan to open investigations into President Donald Trump's family crypto businesses once they take control in January, with World Liberty Financial, its Emirati investor and the pardon of Binance...
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Polygon Proposal Seeks Hard Fork to Recover 70.49 Million POL
Funds tied to the Polymarket and Binance incidents would go to recovery wallets, without changing POL’s total supply.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Coinbase says 99% of customer assets sit in cold storage after Binance’s $6.3 billion breach
Coinbase says 99% of customer assets are in cold storage and it wasn't affected by the $6.3 billion Binance hack.
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Privacy Cash Pauses Deposits After Binance Hack
Elliptic traced about $1.2 million in theft-linked ETH and SOL into its pools; the team says withdrawals remain open.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Coinbase Brings Deribit Options and Perpetuals to US Prime Clients
Institutions can access global derivatives through Coinbase Financial Markets, but shared liquidity does not mean a single margin pool.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Binance Expands Proof of Reserves to 44 Tokens After Hack
The exchange says it has replenished about 98% of affected assets, but the new cryptographic proof is unfinished and withdrawals are not fully reopened.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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BitMart hit by $391K hack amid security staff exodus
Crypto exchange BitMart was hacked for $391,000 this week as it struggles to retain its “severely understaffed” security team. Founder Sheldon Xia revealed that the hack took place on Monday and is one of “numerous attacks” it's dealing with. Blockchain data firm Bitquery reports that $391,000 was...
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THORChain's RUNE jumps 10% as North Korean hackers resume laundering Binance loot
North Korea’s TraderTraitor is routing Binance hack proceeds through THORChain, swapping ether for bitcoin after an earlier wave of conversions from Tron.
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Coinbase, Kalshi Denied Shield From State Prediction-Market Enforcement
The Second Circuit denied interim protection in Connecticut and New York, but its order does not require trading to stop or existing positions to close.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Binance hack may be ‘temporary setback’ for crypto, Grayscale’s Pandl says
Zach Pandl highlighted institutional custody safeguards as crypto markets recovered some losses following the record $6.3 billion Binance hack.
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ZachXBT names French bank Crédit Mutuel Arkéa as suspected victim of $133 million crypto theft
Blockchain sleuth ZachXBT says the French bank may have lost more than $133 million from crypto exchange accounts. Crypto.com confirms it has blocked funds linked to the theft.
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Binance hackers move 81% of stolen Solana, route funds via THORChain
The Binance attackers moved most of the stolen SOL and continued laundering funds through THORChain after the protocol resumed swaps.
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U.S.-sanctioned Moscow Exchange to list bitcoin and Tether’s USDT in December
Russia’s main bourse wants back the crypto trading Russians do abroad, and one of the coins it's listing is issued by a company that freezes wallets on the U.S. sanctions list.
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What happens if North Korea steals Wall Street's tokenized assets next
The $6.3 billion Binance hack showed how quickly cryptocurrencies can disappear on blockchain rails. Tokenized securities may offer better recourse than crypto after a theft, but the markets around them can still break down when stress hits.
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CZ calls for crypto security alliance as AI-driven attacks accelerate after Binance hack
In his first interview since the Binance hack, Changpeng Zhao says AI is accelerating cyberattacks and calls for industry security alliance.
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CFTC Chair Says Equity Perps Can Begin US Trading
Kraken responded with ‘coming soon 👀’ as Selig outlined access through futures exchanges also registered with the SEC.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Cboe-Backed Group Sues CFTC Over Single-Stock Perps Approvals
The complaint targets Coinbase, Kalshi and Bitnomial and seeks emergency relief to prevent their contracts from being listed as security futures.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Crypto survived cybersecurity awareness month… just
Cybersecurity Awareness Month is thankfully over. An already bumper month, which saw a PHP vulnerability threaten an estimated 70% of websites and Ledger devices drained for $90 million via spyware implants, ended with a bang as Binance suffered the biggest hack (or theft of any kind) in history....
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What Are Euro Stablecoins? EURC, EURR and Redemption Explained
Both tokens disclose a right to redeem at €1, but issuer accounts and exchange sales have separate access conditions.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Brazil's Biggest Bitcoin Exchange Says It Will Refund Users After a $40 Million Hack
Mercado Bitcoin says customers won't pay for a hack that drained tens of millions. Withdrawals on the exchange remain frozen with no restart date.
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THORChain Refused to Block the $387M Bitget Hacker. Here’s Why | Chad Barraford
Bitget lost $387.5 million in a hack and asked THORChain to block the attacker’s addresses. THORChain said no. Weeks later, Tether froze four THORChain vaults on Tron holding 1.45 million USDT, then unfroze them three hours later. And in May, THORChain itself lost $10.7 million to a GG20 flaw...
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Elon Musk’s Tesla and SpaceX Block Their Stock From OKX-ICE Tokenized Venue
Amazon, Tesla, SpaceX, Netflix, Lam Research, and SoFi objected to trading of their shares on the planned OKX-ICE tokenized stock venue, bringing the total to 56.
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Five Ways North Korea Breaks Into Crypto Firms—and How Binance Was Hacked
From AI deepfakes to poisoning code libraries: here's how North Korean hackers get inside crypto companies.
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South Korea's president says country needs a ‘cybersecurity czar’ following $6.3 billion Binance hack
Lee Jae Myung said he wants a government-wide agency to tackle cyberattacks as AI raises security concerns across financial institutions and critical infrastructure.
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Binance Says $6.34 Billion Hack Began With Fake Job Interview
Bitcoin Magazine Binance Says $6.34 Billion Hack Began With Fake Job Interview The $6.34 billion theft from Binance began with a fake job interview and ran for five months before a single coin moved, the exchange said Tuesday in its first public account of the Oct. 29 attack. Another initial...
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Binance traces $6.3B hack to fake job interviews, compromised AI tool
Hackers exploited compromised employee computers and stolen credentials to breach Binance’s wallet infrastructure, according to the exchange’s investigation.
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Amazon, Tesla and SpaceX Join Objections to OKX–ICE Tokenized Stocks
Disclosed opt-outs cover 50 of the venture’s 63 originally proposed symbols, leaving 13 without a published objection.... Read the full story at The Defiant