🇺🇸 UPDATE: Kalshi traders now peg Democrats’ odds of controlling the Senate at 72%, with Republicans at 28%.

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🚨 UPDATE: Binance plans to gradually resume withdrawals on November 1 after recovering around 95% of the funds lost in the security breach.

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🚨 UPDATE: Reports say more than $4 billion in assets have left Binance since withdrawals resumed after the $6.3 billion hack.

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🚨 BREAKING: Anthropic is prohibiting users from recreating existing video games with Claude Code, following a viral trend of using AI to reverse-engineer games.

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⚡️ Binance has resumed withdrawals following the $6.3B hack. So where did the funds go?

Binance: $4.5B out in 24 hours

The next 10 exchanges combined: about $368M in inflows, with OKX receiving the largest share

₿ Coinbase added 984 $BTC; Kraken added 1,422 $BTC

Nearly 90% of the money withdrawn from Binance didn’t end up at another exchange.

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🚨 BREAKING: BTCPay Server is urging users to take their instances offline after reports that attackers drained hot wallets hosted on its servers.

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🇺🇸 TODAY: The US Secret Service says its investigation into the theft of more than $6 billion in crypto from Binance Global is ongoing. Much of the stolen funds has already been frozen.

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🚨 UPDATE: Solana Seeker says a malicious “SKR Claim” app requesting users’ seed phrases was available in its dApp Store for about an hour after attackers breached its developer portal.

The team has removed the app and fixed the vulnerability.

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🚨 JUST IN: Gate says it has frozen two accounts linked to the Binance hacker after Lookonchain flagged $250,000 in deposits to the exchange within 12 hours.

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🚨 ICYMI: Binance was hacked for $6.3B last week, the largest crypto theft in history.

Timeline:
> Oct. 29: Suspicious transfers flagged
> Tether and Circle freeze $2.36B+
> Binance pauses withdrawals and pledges to cover losses
> Aave freezes markets after attacker borrows $44.6M
> Frozen assets reach $3B; Binance confirms $6.3B stolen
> Early findings point to a compromised engineer laptop; investigators link the attack to North Korea’s TraderTraitor
> Binance sets aside $6.34B, including $5B in matching tokens; Blockaid says EIP-7702 may have bypassed safeguards
> FBI and Secret Service join recovery efforts
> Aave reopens markets, saying its contracts were unaffected
> Binance says 90% of funds replenished by Oct. 31, rising to 95% on Nov. 1
> Withdrawals reopen across 15 networks; $3.64B in net withdrawals in Sunday’s first 9.5 hours
> Nov. 2: Binance says withdrawal volumes are stabilizing

Full coverage: https://ct.com/search?q=binance

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🔥 JUST IN: Strategy has purchased 811 BTC for $65.5 million.

Its total holdings now stand at 849,327 BTC.

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🚨 BREAKING: Brazilian crypto exchange Mercado Bitcoin has temporarily suspended deposits and withdrawals after a security incident. The company says customer funds are safe and no data was compromised.

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🚨 UPDATE: Trade.xyz has restored access to its GitBook documentation following the detection of unauthorized activity. The investigation is ongoing. For now, avoid clicking any links.

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⚡️ THIS WEEK’S KEY EVENTS (ET)

Tuesday, November 3
🇺🇸 US midterm elections — polls begin opening around 6:00 AM; the first polls close at 6:00 PM
🇺🇸 September JOLTS job openings — 10:00 AM

Wednesday, November 4
🇺🇸 October ADP employment report — 8:15 AM
🇺🇸 October S&P Global Services and Composite PMIs — 9:45 AM
🇺🇸 October ISM Services PMI — 10:00 AM

Thursday, November 5
🇺🇸 Initial jobless claims — 8:30 AM

Friday, November 6
🇺🇸 October nonfarm payrolls — 8:30 AM
🇺🇸 October unemployment rate — 8:30 AM

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⚡️ Polymarket Perps has introduced a pre-IPO perpetual contract for Anthropic ($ANT), offering up to 10x leverage and 24/7 trading. The contract has no expiration date and isn’t available to US users.

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🇺🇸 Major update: The SEC has revised its guidance on classifying crypto tokens.

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🇺🇸 Trump says oil prices have dropped by nearly $10 per barrel, describing the decline as “record-breaking.”

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🇰🇵 North Korea’s state media KCNA has dismissed claims that the country was behind the $6.3 billion Binance heist as “fabricated,” even as the FBI blamed the attack on its TraderTraitor hacking group.

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🇰🇵 Kim Yo Jong, Kim Jong Un’s sister and a senior Workers’ Party official, has dismissed claims that North Korea was behind the Binance hack, calling them a US “political provocation.” Pyongyang is monitoring the situation closely, Yonhap reports.

Her remarks followed KCNA’s denial of any involvement in the $6.3 billion theft, with the agency branding the allegations “fabrications.”

The FBI has attributed the attack to North Korea’s TraderTraitor hacking group.

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🚨 BREAKING: Bloomberg reports Binance is boosting rebates for smaller market makers to improve liquidity after last week’s record-breaking $6.3 billion hack.

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