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President Trump Says He Is Reviewing Binance Hack as Calls for Crypto Regulation Intensify
📅 Oct 31, 2026 · 00:36 Tehran
• Binance suffered a major blow on Thursday after, according to the company, a compromised laptop belonging to a DevOps engineer helped an attacker access a service container used to submit unauthorized withdrawal transactions. • President Donald Trump said he was looking into the hack and noted that Binance had said it was working to return customers’ funds.
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Binance Probes Suspected Hack as Suspicious Outflows Could Reach $5.8 Billion
Onchain data indicates that around $3.55 billion was transferred into an unlabeled wallet, after which nearly $900 million was moved onward to other wallets.
Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, appears to have been hit by a major hack.
Data flagged by analyst Spreek shows approximately $3.55 billion in incoming transfers to the unlabeled wallet, with nearly $900 million later transferred among other wallets. Conor Grogan, a senior director and product leader at Coinbase, put the amount as high as $5.8 billion.

Bitwise and Hyperliquid Push SEC to Revise Rules on Token Trading and Airdrops
Bitwise and Hyperliquid Push SEC to Revise Rules on Token Trading and Airdrops
Bitwise Asset Management and the Hyperliquid Policy Center are seeking clearer guidance from the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on how crypto assets should be classified and how secondary-market trading should be treated, as the agency’s public comment period draws to a close.

S&P Global Introduces Risk Assessments for Growing Crypto Lending Vault Sector
S&P Global Introduces Risk Assessments for Growing Crypto Lending Vault Sector
S&P Global has introduced a new risk assessment framework for digital asset lending vaults as these onchain investment products gain traction and deposits in the sector rise to about $10 billion.
According to an announcement on Monday, S&P Global Ratings’ framework assesses vaults across six risk categories: portfolio credit quality risk, liquidity mismatch risk, curator risk, blockchain risk, protocol risk, and vault security and governance risk.

OKX and NYSE Owner ICE Plan 24/7 Tokenized Stock Trading Under SEC Exemption
OKXICE, the joint venture between crypto exchange OKX and New York Stock Exchange owner Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), has notified the SEC that it intends to launch a round-the-clock venue for trading tokenized U.S. stocks, according to co-chair Andrew Cuomo in a Monday post on X.
The venture published a notice dated October 4 under the SEC's “Innovation Exemption,” which, since September 17, has allowed qualifying venues to trade tokenized stocks without registering as exchanges. The notice says OKXICE will operate 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

Japan expands Russia sanctions, adds Garantex over Ukraine war
Japan expands Russia sanctions, adds Garantex over Ukraine war
The Japanese government has broadened its sanctions against Russia, pointing to the ongoing war in Ukraine as the reason for the latest measures.
The expanded restrictions now include Russian cryptocurrency exchange Garantex, which has been placed on an asset-freeze list that limits payments and capital transactions involving the designated parties, according to a joint statement issued on Friday by Japan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Finance, and Ministry of Economy, Trade…

Bitcoin approaches highest level since January as $85,000 sell wall clears and U.S. jobs data disappoints
Glassnode identified the next notable cluster of sell orders near $87,000, while weaker-than-expected U.S. employment data added another macroeconomic factor for the market.
Bitcoin moved above $86,000 on Friday after sellers partially filled orders around $85,000 and then removed the remaining asks, according to Glassnode. The onchain analytics firm said that left relatively little resistance immediately above that level.
Bitcoin was trading near $86,700 at the time of writing.

Bitcoin Order-Book Liquidity Battle Pushes BTC Price to $86.8K
Bitcoin Order-Book Liquidity Battle Pushes BTC Price to $86.8K
Bitcoin buyers broke through a wall of sell-side liquidity, driving BTC to fresh October highs near $87,800, while the area immediately above has emerged as a new resistance level.
Bitcoin (BTC) approached $87,000 on Friday as short liquidations on BTC exceeded $120 million over a 24-hour period.
• Bitcoin pushed through sell orders near $85,000, reaching $86,857, its highest price since Sept. 23.

Aave Founder Says V3 Unaffected After Third-Party Adapter Exploit Drains $305,000
Aave Founder Says V3 Unaffected After Third-Party Adapter Exploit Drains $305,000
Aave founder Stani Kulechov said Aave v3 was unaffected after an attacker exploited a third-party adapter built on top of the lending protocol, draining about $305,000 from two Safe multisig wallets.
Kulechov said the incident did not involve the Aave v3 contract itself, but rather an external adapter developed by a third party on top of Aave. He said the exploit had zero effect on Aave v3.

U.S. Government’s New AI Chatbot Hides a Strange Minecraft Easter Egg
Ask the U.S. government’s newly launched AI chatbot about Minecraft, and the response suddenly sounds less like a government help desk and more like an existential monologue.
The chatbot is hosted on America.gov, which launched on Tuesday. FedScoop reported that the platform brings together information from roughly 29,000 government websites, allowing users to ask about services such as booking a campsite, obtaining a passport, or replacing a Social Security card.

SEC and CFTC crypto oversight to be left with three commissioners after key departure
SEC and CFTC crypto oversight to be left with three commissioners after key departure
Seven commissioner positions across the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) will be vacant after Friday, leaving only a small number of leaders at the financial regulators to oversee parts of the $3 trillion crypto industry.

Nvidia Built a Kill Switch for AI Agents Because They Keep Getting Out
Nvidia on Monday launched the Open Agent Safety Platform, built to solve a problem the AI industry spent this past year discovering the hard way: how do you physically stop an AI agent (a system that can plan, use tools, and take actions on its own, instead of just answering questions) once it stops doing what it was told to do?
The platform has two main pieces.

Bitcoin ETFs turn positive for 2026 with $2.4 billion weekly inflow, their largest since October
Bitcoin ETFs turn positive for 2026 with $2.4 billion weekly inflow, their largest since October
U.S. spot bitcoin ETFs gained $2.4 billion last week, flipping their 2026 net flows positive, while ether funds reversed the prior week's $140 million outflow with $690 million in net inflows.
U.S. spot bitcoin ETFs took in more money last week than in any week since October 2025, enough to flip their 2026 net flows positive two months after they were nearly $6 billion in the red.
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