Headlines from leading crypto outlets with a short Blockdeck Brief and how the market moved since. Every story credits its publisher.
Binance has reported finding further points of compromise in a hack described as involving about $6.3 billion, according to Decrypt. Its CEO, Richard Teng, said the attack was not the result of a single action, and the exchange has confirmed roughly $3 billion has been frozen. Bitcoin was at $77,824 when the story ran, and since then it is down 0.3%.
Binance reports that roughly $6.3 billion in assets were taken in a large breach, with about $3 billion of the stolen funds now frozen. The incident has been linked to North Korea's TraderTraitor group. Bitcoin was priced at $78,499 when the story ran and is down 0.3% since then.
A reported $6.3 billion hack at Binance has added to jitters across crypto markets, arriving alongside weak earnings outlooks and growing worries about AI spending that pushed the QQQ fund down more than 2%. Bitcoin was trading at $78,085 when the story was published, and it has since been down 0.2%.
A hacker reportedly sold off FUN, a little-known token launched in 2017, along with other smaller tokens into markets too thin to absorb the volume, according to the CoinDesk report. The sales are said to have pushed those prices sharply lower. Bitcoin, the market benchmark, was $78,130 when the story was published and is down 0.1% since then.
A sharp sell-off in bitcoin, ether and XRP forced the closure of about $1.5 billion in leveraged crypto positions. Most of those forced closures hit bets that prices would rise, with Binance accounting for nearly half the total. A subsequent rebound has since started to squeeze traders betting on falling prices. Bitcoin was trading at $78,586 when the story was published, and it is down 0.1% since then.
Michael Saylor says Strategy could raise up to $30 billion in digital credit without issuing new common stock or needing further gains in Bitcoin's price. The company intends to keep buying more BTC. At publication Bitcoin was $78,485, and it has moved 0.0% since the story was published.
Blockchain investigators TRM Labs and ZachXBT have linked North Korea to a reported $6.3 billion hack involving Binance, with TRM Labs stating it holds high confidence in the attribution. ZachXBT traced stolen funds from the Binance and Bitget incidents converging on a single address. Bitcoin was priced at $78,480 when the story was published and has been flat since, up 0.0% in the first hour and up 0.0% since the story.
Developers on the XRP Ledger are proposing fixes that would narrow which accounts can hold permissioned, or "restricted," tokens on the network. The XRP Ledger Foundation has said no users were affected. XRP was $1.26 when the story was published and is up 0.0% since then.
India's largest crypto exchange, CoinDCX, has limited new futures positions following a security incident at Binance that disrupted a major liquidity provider. The company says deposits, withdrawals and customer funds are not affected. BTC was $78,600 when the story was published, and it has been down 0.0% since then.
A CoinDesk blockchain trace shows the bitcoin taken in a Binance hack, roughly $1.4 billion worth, now sits split across 19 wallets, with 17 of them holding exactly 1,000 BTC each. None of the wallets has moved since Thursday night. Bitcoin was down 0.1% in the first hour after publication and is down 0.1% since the story.
Bitcoin briefly dipped to $76,300 after Binance confirmed a hack it estimates at $6.3 billion. According to the report, the attacker gained access through a compromised employee laptop, and roughly $3 billion has been frozen onchain. Bitcoin was trading at $78,207 when the story was published and is down 0.4% since then.
A suspected $6.3 billion security breach at Binance, alongside an exploit on Polymarket, has weighed on bitcoin and ether, according to CoinDesk. Standard Chartered expects prices may stay under pressure before they settle. Bitcoin was $78,233 when the story was published and is down 0.2% since then.
Large institutional investors are reportedly moving money off crypto exchanges following a major breach at Binance, a hack described as multibillion-dollar in scale. The withdrawals suggest concern about the incident is extending past that single platform. BTC was $78,180 when the story was published and is down 0.2% since then.
A Standard Chartered analyst, Geoffrey Kendrick, argues that a breach at Binance could speed up a move toward decentralized exchanges. He also keeps his view that Uniswap's UNI token could reach $100 by 2030. UNI was up 0.6% since the story was published.
Blockchain researchers say North Korea's Lazarus Group is likely responsible for a hack of the world's largest crypto exchange that reportedly totaled nearly $6 billion. The story was published when BTC was $77,806, and since then BTC is up 0.0%.
Binance's published reserve data shows that wallets drained in a hack were counted as backing customer balances. As a result, its ether reserves are estimated to be about 6% short until the exchange replaces the stolen funds. BTC was $77,813 at publication and has since moved down 0.3%.
Blockaid CEO Ido Ben-Natan suspects the Binance hack may have involved misuse of private keys rather than straightforward theft. He points to parallels with the earlier Bybit hack, with attackers possibly manipulating Binance's transaction-signing infrastructure. BTC was $77,873 at publication and is down 0.4% since the story.
Reports of suspicious multibillion-dollar transfers from Binance-linked wallets have unsettled crypto markets, with Bitcoin and Ether falling and the wider market down about 3.3%. Bitcoin, which was trading at $78,958 when the story ran, is down 0.5% since publication.
Strategy, the firm formerly known as MicroStrategy and listed as MSTR, reported a record $20.91 billion in operating income for the third quarter of 2026, lifted by Bitcoin's rebound even as its revenue declined. The company still faces a negative year-to-date BTC yield and ongoing pressure to fund its preferred dividends. Bitcoin was down 0.3% since the story was published.
Bitcoin fell below $79,000 after reports of a suspected hack at Binance, with outflows of up to $5.8 billion. Tether and Circle reportedly froze about $1.8 to $2.4 billion in stablecoins in response. Since the story was published, BTC is down 0.4%.
Wallets linked to the suspected Binance hack are reportedly converting stablecoins that can be frozen into Ethereum on decentralized exchanges, according to Etherscan records. The story also notes that some DeFi platforms have paused trading. ETH was trading at $2,274 when the story was published and has since slipped 0.1%.
Singapore police say tampered Ledger devices began appearing there on September 10, according to the report. South Korean lawmakers are reportedly close to pushing back the crypto tax law again, marking a fourth delay. BTC was $79,132 when the story was published and is down 0.3% since then.
An on-chain tally places the suspected drain from Binance at about $5.57 billion across three blockchains. Tether and Circle have jointly frozen $1.8 billion in response. USDT was $0.999 when the story was published, and since then it has been down 0.0%.
Binance is investigating a security breach affecting its Ethereum wallets, which reportedly carries a value in the billions. Tether and Circle have together frozen more than $2.36 billion in stablecoins in response. Since the story was published, ETH is up 0.4%.
Binance reportedly lost $5.7 billion in what would be the largest crypto hack to date, according to CoinDesk. Following the news, prices across the market slid, with BNB leading the decline. Since the story was published, BNB has risen 1.1%, from $699.48.
Coinbase posted third-quarter net income of $719 million, mainly from gains on its crypto holdings, while revenue stayed level at $1.22 billion. Bitcoin was priced at $79,294 when the story ran and has since moved -0.21%.
Public companies have roughly doubled their share of blockchain revenue since 2022, according to a new report from 1kx. The report links this shift to growing institutional adoption and real-world uses of the technology. Bitcoin was priced at 80,850.4 USD when the story was published and has since moved -2.13%.
Google Chrome is adding an autofill feature powered by its Gemini AI that can search a user's Gmail for items like order numbers, tracking details and flight bookings, then enter them into web forms. The feature is starting to roll out in the United States. Bitcoin was priced at $80,852.2 when the story was published and has since moved -2.13%.
Polymarket, a prediction markets platform, paused trading on Thursday after reporting that one of its third-party providers had been compromised. The story was published by Cointelegraph, and BTC was priced at 80,858.1 USD at that time, falling 2.14% since then.
Polymarket has suspended trading after a breach at one of its third-party providers. The company said the incident followed user reports that their accounts had been drained. Bitcoin was priced at 80866.1 USD when the story ran and has since moved -2.14%.
Polymarket has restricted trading and paused relayer actions while it investigates a security incident, after some users reported funds leaving their accounts. Arkham data shows a suspected attacker wallet holding about $2.65 million in POL. POL was down 3.02% since the story was published.
A hacktivist group claims it obtained names, job titles and phone numbers for more than 41,000 Homeland Security staff from a login system. The Decrypt report covers the claim, which is not confirmed in the excerpt. Bitcoin was trading at $80,870.50 when the story ran and is down 2.15% since.
A miner using FutureBit's Apollo Solo hardware mined Bitcoin block 973,262 on October 26, receiving the full 3.154 BTC reward covering the block subsidy and transaction fees from 2,477 transactions. Since the story was published, BTC has moved down 2.19%, from a price of 80,905.3 USD.
Industry spending on next week's US midterm elections has reached about $176 million, yet a survey by Ipsos for the DeFi Education Fund found that only 13% of Americans rate a candidate's support for crypto growth as very important. Bitcoin was priced at $80,979.70 when the story ran and has since moved -1.83%.
About $11 billion in Bitcoin options are set to expire on Deribit, roughly a third of its open contracts, one day after the Federal Reserve kept rates unchanged with two officials favoring a hike. Bitcoin was trading near $81,174 when the story ran and has since moved -2.06%.
HYPE's token rose after reports that ICE, the owner of the NYSE, and Trade[XYZ] are planning US perpetual futures tied to Hyperliquid. Since the story, HYPE has moved -1.36%, after trading at 96.0624 USD when the story was published.
KuCoin has halted its services for users based in Russia and Belarus, pointing to legal and regulatory compliance as the reason, with both countries currently under international sanctions. Since the story was published, the KCS token has fallen 3.05%, from 7.45711 USD.
Billionaire investor Stanley Druckenmiller made his first post on X, disclosing an indirect investment of about $23 million tied to Trade[XYZ], a venture linked to the Hyperliquid platform. The move comes as the platform works with the parent company of the NYSE, and his family office had earlier reported shares in a HYPE-focused treasury company. HYPE was priced near $96.30 when the story ran and has since moved down about 1.6%.
KuCoin is shutting accounts for users in Russia and Belarus, joining rival platforms MEXC and Bitget, which made similar decisions earlier this month. Since the story was published, KCS, the exchange's token, has dropped 3.45%.