Crypto news
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Morpho Borrow Rates Hit Roughly 40% as PT Market Liquidity Dries Up
Available liquidity in one reUSD-backed market vanished in two hours; rates across four tracked markets eased to roughly 9%–13% by Oct. 31.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Threshold Says tBTC Is Fully Backed as Bridge Pause Continues
Aave’s Ethereum Core tBTC reserve remains frozen, while Gauntlet says roughly 640,000 USDC remains supplied to a tBTC-backed Morpho market.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Bitcoin's white paper turns 18, and small businesses are still paying for the bailouts it answered
Eighteen years after Satoshi published the Bitcoin white paper, business owners are still covering the cost of a system built on bailouts, and they can protect part of their surplus by keeping it in bitcoin, argues Onramp CEO Michael Tanguma.
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THORChain Swaps Remain Paused on 12 Chains After Reported Refund Error
Outbound signing is enabled on most affected chains, allowing payments to proceed even while new swaps remain blocked.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Intersect Urges Cardano Operators to Patch Critical Linux Flaw
Ubuntu fixes were still in progress in its Oct. 30 tracker update, while AlmaLinux had patched kernels available for testing.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Tydro Restores $75 Million USDC Borrow Cap After Freeze
The reserve has about $24.5 million of room below the cap, but its $18.6 million in available liquidity sets a lower ceiling on immediate new lending.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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b14g Says 97 Million CORE Drained, Pauses Contracts
The Bitcoin staking protocol says exchanges froze about 9 million CORE and that staked BTC was unaffected.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Binance Confirms 7,499 BTC SAFU Transfer After Hack
The exchange says it has replenished 90% of the amount lost and pledges to rebuild its emergency fund to about $1 billion.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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A stolen iPhone, $14,000 in losses and London's crypto theft problem
Two strangers befriended Magnus Ahmad outside a London bar. Hours later, thieves had emptied his crypto wallets, accessed his bank accounts and disabled his laptop.
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Traders are already placing leveraged bets on Anthropic’s IPO using crypto contracts
Trade.xyz’s new ANT contract fell about 20% in its first hour on Hyperliquid. There are no shares behind it, and U.S. traders are locked out.
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Origami Says DNS Is Restored but Vaults Remain Paused
The protocol says vault funds were unaffected; a contract readout shows deposits and withdrawals paused for its hOHM vault.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Binance says 90% of stolen assets replenished, targets Sunday withdrawals
Less-liquid tokens make up the remaining shortfall as Binance continues buying replacement assets through market and over-the-counter trades.
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Bitcoin held up better than expected after Binance hack, Strive CEO says
Strive CEO Matt Cole says the Binance hack has not changed his long-term case for Bitcoin, but cautions it is too early to call a market bottom.
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Hackers hijack a dozen DeFi websites, all registered with Name.com, and steal about $138,000
All 12 hijacked domains are registered through Name.com, according to registry records accessed by The Block, suggesting a compromise.
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Binance says it has replaced 90% of stolen crypto after massive $6.3 billion breach
Binance is absorbing all losses through corporate funds, futures reserves, and SAFU, keeping user balances intact.
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Binance Hack: Everything You Need to Know About the Biggest Crypto Heist in History
Attackers tied to North Korea drained roughly $6.4 billion from the world’s largest crypto exchange. Here’s what we know about how it happened, who’s behind it, and what comes next.
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Institutions embrace crypto staking despite shrinking yields
Easier access and growing familiarity are encouraging investors to stake their tokens, while falling rewards and withdrawal delays test the economics.
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Binance Says 90% of Stolen Assets Replenished, Targets Nov. 1 Restart
Its new reserves page reports full backing for major tokens, while the complete cryptographic proof is expected by Nov. 3.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Uber tests how tokenization can put idle cash to work with HSBC, Franklin Templeton
The pilot let Uber keep funds invested in money market products while accessing cash for payments, even on weekends.
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Bitcoin turns 18: Has the original rebel grown up?
In typical Bitcoin style, the number one cryptocurrency turns 18 today, amid AI-driven security threats, quantum fears and the biggest exchange hack in crypto history.
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As big bitcoin miners chase AI profits, individuals get another shot at the rewards
Several companies offer access to bitcoin mining without the hassle of running equipment, but high costs and the 2028 reward halving make profits uncertain.
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Texas brothers sentenced to 15 years in prison for armed crypto robbery, kidnapping
Home invasions became the most common form of crypto wrench attacks worldwide during the first half of 2026, rising to 20 incidents from one.
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Chainalysis says hacker using ‘offensive agentic techniques’ accessed its customers’ names and emails
The firm has also been tracking Binance’s separate multibillion-dollar hack, and said the attackers are using a Tron protocol to dodge stablecoin freezes.
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Kalshi vs. Polymarket: Who Decides Winners and When Funds Can Leave
Exchange review, oracle challenges and deposit holds create different paths from a winning position to money outside the platform.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Origin Restores OGN Liquidity After Pulling Funds During Binance Incident
Origin says the attacker sold OGN at an average 79% discount. Ethereum records show liquidity returning to its Curve pool after a withdrawal of 46.74 million OGN.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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CertiK Puts 2026 Crypto Losses at Record $9.2 Billion
Its live dashboard records $3.03 billion frozen or returned in October, reducing the month's adjusted losses to $3.47 billion.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Why AI Models Cheat: Reward Hacking, Explained
From boat-racing bots to OpenAI models inside Hugging Face, here's how AI reward hacking works and why it matters.
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18 years in, what has Bitcoin truly done?
The Bitcoin white paper achieved a lot of what Satoshi Nakamoto set out to accomplish, but the cultural impact it had may outweigh Bitcoin itself, writes CoinDesk's Nikhilesh De.
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Lido Revenue Jumps to $605,000 on Execution-Reward Windfall
The DAO received 269.69 stETH in staking fees, but its next daily reward report delivered a much smaller treasury payment.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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A Nasdaq-listed company may sell $450 million bitcoin, citing Binance hack and quantum fears
Next Technology Holding cited exchange security and quantum computing risks in authorizing sales or loans against its 5,833 BTC. It says none of the coins are held at Binance.