Unable to know the Binance 14 hot wallet's live nonce, the attacker packed 50 EIP-7702 authorizations into one transaction, and the single match delegated the wallet to a sweep contract — Blockaid
North Korea's Lazarus Group is likely behind the roughly $6.3B Binance hack, on-chain sleuths say, which would make it the regime's biggest crypto heist, topping its $1.5B Bybit attack — CoinDesk
Binance expects to begin resuming withdrawals within 48 hours after its roughly $6.3B hack, while deposits remain unaffected — Yi He on X
Stolen funds from the $6.3B Binance hack and the $388M Bitget hack landed at the same address via THORChain, tying both to the same DPRK-linked attacker TraderTraitor — ZachXBT on X
XRP Ledger developers are rolling out a set of fixes that tighten who can hold permissioned 'restricted' tokens on the network, with the XRP Ledger Foundation saying no users were affected — CoinDesk
Trezor says a Trezor Safe 5 bought from CryptoBilis, the Southeast Asian reseller behind the tampered Ledger devices, was reported with a similar hardware implant and urges buyers since March to move funds to a new seed — Trezor
Binance says its hack investigation has uncovered additional points of breach beyond the compromised laptop, with losses to be covered from SAFU and company funds and withdrawals due back in 45 hours — Binance
CZ asked Elon Musk to stop trolling Binance over its hack, noting that Binance's $500M stake in X has since turned into SpaceX shares worth over $1B — CZ on X
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong, co-founder Fred Ehrsam and President Emilie Choi set up 10b5-1 plans to potentially sell up to 13.6M COIN shares, 8.17M of them Armstrong's, starting November 16 — Coinbase 10-Q (SEC)
The Binance exploiter accidentally sent about $3.32M in altcoins straight to the $NEWT token contract, where the funds are now stuck and unrecoverable — Lookonchain on X
Jupiter Lend has hit a liquidity crunch delaying withdrawals, with its API reportedly showing just $3.35 USDC available against $418.5M in requests, while the team says funds are safe — Jupiter Lend on X
Uber used a public blockchain to invest its corporate cash, trading over a weekend to capture higher returns, joining HSBC and Franklin Templeton in the onchain investing test — Bloomberg
Celestia unveiled Voyager, a payments chain for AI agents that sustained 21M transactions per second across 100M accounts over 5 hours in its first benchmark, built on its new Fibre layer — Celestia
Two Texas brothers were sentenced to 15 years in prison for holding a Minnesota family at gunpoint in an $8M crypto heist — The Block
Binance CEO Richard Teng says the exchange has reserved $6.34B of company funds to cover the hack, $5B already in the stolen tokens and the rest being bought via market and OTC — Decrypt
Ambire launched Ice, an open-source, post-quantum-ready hardware wallet built for Safe smart accounts, decoding Safe transactions on its own screen and offering air-gapped QR signing, now on pre-order — Ambire
Tether made $1.5B in Q3 net operating profit and $4.5B year-to-date, while its excess reserves nearly doubled to $7.95B against $183.5B in issued USDT — Tether
The FBI and US Secret Service are reportedly working with Binance on its $6.4B hack, and the FBI confirmed it is coordinating with partners to assess the attack's scope — Reuters
Binance will take a fresh Proof of Reserves snapshot within 12 hours, with results due Monday, November 2, and now targets phased withdrawal resumption in about 34 hours — Binance
StepDrainer frontend attacks spread from Flap and Kintsu to 10 more DeFi sites including Pickle Finance, Origami and Fluxbeam, with Kintsu urging users who signed since 00:00 UTC to revoke approvals — Binance Square