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Binance's $6.3 Billion Single Point of Failure
Binance lost $6.3 billion across ten chains because one signing system could open every hot wallet. What EIP-7702 did to the attack surface, what the stablecoin freezes really mean and how Aave got dragged in.
.@r0ckstardev says shut down your BTCPay Server if you hold a hot wallet, after reports of unauthorized attackers sweeping funds. x.com/r0ckstardev/st…
BTCPay Server is investigating reports of hot wallets on BTCPay instances being swept by unauthorized attackers. Operators are told to shut down now with ./btcpay-down.sh until the investigation wraps up. x.com/btcpayserver/s…

The typical household 75 and older is worth $504,900. The typical household under 35 is worth $33,000. That's a 15x gap, per the Fed's 2025 Survey of Consumer Finances.
CZ thanks the Secret Service after the $6 billion Binance Global theft. He says the fast freeze of stolen funds helped contain the damage and reduce ripple effects across crypto and broader financial markets. x.com/cz_binance/sta…

OpenAI is planning a policy and PR push right after Tuesday's midterms, Axios reports. The plan: rebrand data centers as "AI compute campuses" and ask Congress for mandatory "speed limits" on the most powerful AI systems.

Sweeper bots burned $4,800 of bitcoin in fees within minutes after a user withdrew to an insecure address. The winning bot kept just $12.67. The miner got the rest.

Binance has resumed withdrawals on all 15 networks and assets in its first phase. Net outflow since 06:00 UTC: roughly $3.64 billion, or 2.1% of its $171 billion in AUM. Binance: "Rest assured that market conditions are stable."

The S&P 500 is just 3% below the record high it set on October 6. Its worst drop this year was 9.1%, during the Iran war in March.

North Korea's Binance laundering just hit an unexpected snag. This morning's Ethereum reorg made THORChain double refund a 10 ETH deposit and trigger an emergency pause. No cross-chain swaps for anyone until it returns.

OpenAI's latest funding round values it at $1.25 trillion, short of the $1.4 trillion it was targeting. It had been seeking $30 billion. Annualized revenue is $50 billion, with a goal of $70 billion by year-end.
Zelensky says Ukraine, the US and Russia are preparing a trilateral meeting in the first half of November. He discussed it with Erdoğan, including holding talks in Türkiye and involving Europe. No date or venue confirmed yet.

An extortion group called n0n published the passwords and keys to a firewall that guards the link Finzly's bank clients use to send payment instructions to the Federal Reserve. Finzly connects 11 listed banks and credit unions to ACH, Fedwire and FedNow through a single shared connection. The leaked files describe a direct link labeled "FED" and rules for FedNow and FedACH traffic. Finzly says it rotated its keys and credentials and that the files can't get anyone into its systems. The Fed says its payment services were not impacted. The passwords were the easy part to fix. The map of how everything connects is still out there. h/t @CaitlinLong_ americanbanker.com/news/extortion…
.@r0ckstardev says shut down your BTCPay Server if you hold a hot wallet, after reports of unauthorized attackers sweeping funds. x.com/r0ckstardev/st…
BTCPay Server is investigating reports of hot wallets on BTCPay instances being swept by unauthorized attackers. Operators are told to shut down now with ./btcpay-down.sh until the investigation wraps up. x.com/btcpayserver/s…

The typical household 75 and older is worth $504,900. The typical household under 35 is worth $33,000. That's a 15x gap, per the Fed's 2025 Survey of Consumer Finances.
CZ thanks the Secret Service after the $6 billion Binance Global theft. He says the fast freeze of stolen funds helped contain the damage and reduce ripple effects across crypto and broader financial markets. x.com/cz_binance/sta…

OpenAI is planning a policy and PR push right after Tuesday's midterms, Axios reports. The plan: rebrand data centers as "AI compute campuses" and ask Congress for mandatory "speed limits" on the most powerful AI systems.

Sweeper bots burned $4,800 of bitcoin in fees within minutes after a user withdrew to an insecure address. The winning bot kept just $12.67. The miner got the rest.

Binance has resumed withdrawals on all 15 networks and assets in its first phase. Net outflow since 06:00 UTC: roughly $3.64 billion, or 2.1% of its $171 billion in AUM. Binance: "Rest assured that market conditions are stable."

The S&P 500 is just 3% below the record high it set on October 6. Its worst drop this year was 9.1%, during the Iran war in March.

North Korea's Binance laundering just hit an unexpected snag. This morning's Ethereum reorg made THORChain double refund a 10 ETH deposit and trigger an emergency pause. No cross-chain swaps for anyone until it returns.

OpenAI's latest funding round values it at $1.25 trillion, short of the $1.4 trillion it was targeting. It had been seeking $30 billion. Annualized revenue is $50 billion, with a goal of $70 billion by year-end.
Zelensky says Ukraine, the US and Russia are preparing a trilateral meeting in the first half of November. He discussed it with Erdoğan, including holding talks in Türkiye and involving Europe. No date or venue confirmed yet.

An extortion group called n0n published the passwords and keys to a firewall that guards the link Finzly's bank clients use to send payment instructions to the Federal Reserve. Finzly connects 11 listed banks and credit unions to ACH, Fedwire and FedNow through a single shared connection. The leaked files describe a direct link labeled "FED" and rules for FedNow and FedACH traffic. Finzly says it rotated its keys and credentials and that the files can't get anyone into its systems. The Fed says its payment services were not impacted. The passwords were the easy part to fix. The map of how everything connects is still out there. h/t @CaitlinLong_ americanbanker.com/news/extortion…
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