🇺🇸 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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🚨 TODAY: The NYSE has added Broadridge, Computershare, Equiniti and Superstate as transfer agent partners for its new tokenized securities venue. They join Securitize and tZERO.

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🇺🇸 BREAKING: The Associated Press says US forces carried out defensive strikes on targets in Iran near the Strait of Hormuz. The operation took place shortly before the US midterm elections.

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🚨 UPDATE: Binance will resume withdrawals for additional assets on BSC, Ethereum, Solana and other networks starting at 04:00 UTC today, as it continues to recover from last week’s $6.3B hack.

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🚨 UPDATE: NEAR Protocol says its proposal to reduce the maximum annual issuance of NEAR from 2.5% to 1.6% has passed. The change will be rolled out over 24 months.

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🇦🇺 TODAY: Australia has raised interest rates by 25 basis points to 4.85%, the highest level in 18 years, as AI investment and rising energy costs add to inflation.

https://ct.com/markets/australia-lifts-rates-as-ai-boom-energy-costs-fuel-inflation

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🇨🇳 🇴🇲 JUST IN: China and Oman have signed an agreement to deepen cooperation on digital payments and central bank digital currencies.

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