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Trezor Warns CryptoBilis Buyers to Move Funds Over Suspected Implant
Binance Confirms $6.3B Hack, Points to Possible Compromised DevOps Laptop
Binance Probes Suspected Hot Wallet Hack as Tether Freezes 1.567B USDT
Strategy Posts $19.5B Q3 Net Income on $20.9B Bitcoin Gain, Shares Slip
Coinbase Posts $719M Q3 Net Income, but Adjusted Profit Is $78M
Polymarket Reopens Trading, Pledges to Repay Traders After Provider Compromise
1kx Projects Blockchain Revenue Near $100B in 2026, Down 28%
India ED Searches Mudrex and Instadapp Premises in $525M Crypto Probe
KuCoin Ends All Services in Russia and Belarus, Effective Immediately
Polymarket Halts New Trading After Reported Wallet Drains
US Treasury Sanctions 11 Over North Korean IT Worker Crypto Laundering
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Binance Confirms $6.3B Hack, Points to Possible Compromised DevOps Laptop
Binance Probes Suspected Hot Wallet Hack as Tether Freezes 1.567B USDT
Strategy Posts $19.5B Q3 Net Income on $20.9B Bitcoin Gain, Shares Slip
Coinbase Posts $719M Q3 Net Income, but Adjusted Profit Is $78M
Polymarket Reopens Trading, Pledges to Repay Traders After Provider Compromise
1kx Projects Blockchain Revenue Near $100B in 2026, Down 28%
India ED Searches Mudrex and Instadapp Premises in $525M Crypto Probe
KuCoin Ends All Services in Russia and Belarus, Effective Immediately
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Trezor Warns CryptoBilis Buyers to Move Funds Over Suspected Implant
Trezor is urging anyone who bought a hardware wallet from former reseller CryptoBilis since March 2026 to move funds to a new wallet with a fresh recovery phrase, after an Indonesian customer reported a suspected cellular implant inside a Safe 5. The device has not yet been examined.
Binance Confirms $6.3B Hack, Points to Possible Compromised DevOps Laptop
Binance put the Oct. 29 hack at about $6.3 billion with roughly $3 billion frozen on-chain. Initial findings point to a possibly compromised DevOps laptop, no private key leak. SAFU and company funds will cover losses; withdrawals remain suspended.
Binance Probes Suspected Hot Wallet Hack as Tether Freezes 1.567B USDT
Between $2.5B and $3.5B left Binance hot wallets in about 40 minutes on October 29. Binance is investigating and has not confirmed a loss. CZ says user funds are safe; Tether froze more than 1.567B USDT and Circle about $823M USDC.
Strategy Posts $19.5B Q3 Net Income on $20.9B Bitcoin Gain, Shares Slip
Strategy reported $19.53B in Q3 net income, driven by a $20.91B bitcoin gain. Revenue fell 3%, BTC yield is negative 3.7% year to date, preferred holders approved daily dividends and CFO Andrew Kang is stepping down.
Regulation
India ED Searches Mudrex and Instadapp Premises in $525M Crypto Probe
India's Enforcement Directorate searched premises linked to Mudrex and Instadapp on Oct. 27, alleging more than ₹5,000 crore ($525M) in cross-border crypto transfers. Preliminary estimates: over ₹4,600 crore for Mudrex and Saber.money, about $40 million for Instadapp.
KuCoin Ends All Services in Russia and Belarus, Effective Immediately
KuCoin has ended all products and services for customers in Russia and Belarus, effective immediately. It is the third major exchange this month to restrict the region, after MEXC and Bitget. It names no specific law and sets no single withdrawal deadline.
US Treasury Sanctions 11 Over North Korean IT Worker Crypto Laundering
OFAC designated 10 individuals and one entity tied to North Korean IT worker schemes. The list includes two Russians who allegedly converted millions in crypto. Chainalysis traced deposits to mainstream and sanctioned exchanges, including Garantex.
Kalshi Closes $1B Series G at $40B Valuation, Up 82% Since May
Kalshi closed a $1 billion Series G at a $40 billion valuation, up nearly 82% since May. The cash funds stock perps, leveraged event contracts and AI compute markets as Utah and the CFTC fight over jurisdiction.
DeFi
Chainlink Launches 24/7 Pricing for Tokenized Assets, With Aave First
Chainlink is rolling out 24/7 pricing for tokenized stocks, commodities and other traditional assets, blending extended-hours data with perpetual futures quotes when markets close. Aave will use the feeds on Horizon, starting with heavily traded US stocks.
Avail Launches ShieldTX to Block Bots Copying Hyperliquid Traders
Avail launched ShieldTX, which opens every Hyperliquid perp position from a fresh wallet to break the link copy-trading bots follow. Its 63 bps cost estimate rests on a seven-trader sample, and a full audit is still underway.
CF Benchmarks Launches CFB Oracle to Push Regulated Indices Onchain
CF Benchmarks, the FCA-regulated index provider behind BlackRock's bitcoin ETF and CME crypto futures, launched CFB Oracle to deliver signed indices onchain. Payward plans to use it for a Hyperliquid-powered U.S. perps product still awaiting approval, while Chainlink and Pyth hold the incumbent...
Dolomite Adds $100 Million in Concrete BTCcx Bitcoin Collateral
Dolomite has added $100 million in Concrete's BTCcx, a custody-native Bitcoin token backed 1:1 at BitGo, as lending collateral. Only Concrete can borrow against it, and liquidations run through offchain custody settlement.
Technology
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Nvidia stock jumped 7% in premarket trading Thursday after posting an earnings beat and announcing a $12.9 billion acquisition of Hugging Face. Nasdaq futures climbed 1.1% on the news, arriving ahead of the Federal Reserve's Jackson Hole Economic Symposium.
Mystery AI Model Ox Alpha Beats Claude Fable on Benchmarks, Creators Unknown
A new AI model called Ox Alpha has surfaced with no identifiable creators, a free price tag, and benchmark scores that outperform Anthropic's Claude Fable. The model ships with a 1 million token context window, accepts video as input, and is available at no cost.
Inception Labs' Mercury 2 Outperforms Google's DiffusionGemma in AI Showdown
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