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The world's largest crypto exchange has lost assets worth roughly $6.3 billion, and it will have to reimburse them out of its own pocket: according to Bloomberg Law, Binance has no cyber insurance policy for that amount.
Investors reduced their checks in the largest private round in history: instead of $30B, OpenAI expects to raise $20B, and the company's target valuation was lowered from $1.4T to $1.25T. Caution about artificial intelligence has moved from the exchange to the private market.
After resuming withdrawals, Binance showed a daily net inflow of $1.82 billion. The weekly total, however, remained deeply negative: $11.832 billion in net outflow.
Michael Selig, chairman of the CFTC (the US derivatives market regulator), in an interview with CNBC on October 30 called the theft from Binance an argument in favor of federal rules for crypto exchanges operating outside the US.
From 07:00 Moscow time on November 3, Binance is again letting money out according to a new list of assets. This is the second stage of unblocking after the largest hack in the exchange's history, which caused withdrawals to be stopped completely.
WTI crude oil futures (the benchmark American grade, traded on the NYMEX exchange) lost 2.25% on Monday and slid to $99.80. This is a continuation of the correction after Friday's peak of $104.03 - a five-month high.
The American Federal Bureau of Investigation has officially named a group linked to the DPRK as the culprit behind the Binance hack last Thursday. About $6.3 billion in digital assets was stolen - this is the largest theft in the history of the crypto market.
On Friday, October 30, XAU/USD lost more than 3% over the session and plunged to $3,891 — the lowest level since October 28, 2025. Just the day before, on October 29, the metal held around $4,000.
Analytics firm TRM Labs linked the Binance hack "with high confidence" to the TraderTraitor group - the FBI's name for North Korean state hackers, who are classified as part of the Lazarus Group. This is four times more than the $1.5 billion stolen from Bybit in February 2025.
Brent futures (the North Sea benchmark crude) fell about 1% on Thursday to $114.20 a barrel, while WTI (the U.S. benchmark) dropped 1.4% to $101.40. The market is simultaneously pricing in two scenarios from Washington: an offer of talks to Iran and preparations for a strike after the November 3 election.
On October 28 at 21:00 Moscow time, the Fed will announce its rate decision, and the market expects almost no move: the probability of a hike fell from 73% to 9.4%. The main focus will be the wording of the statement and the press conference at 21:30 Moscow time.
On Thursday, October 22, XAU/USD lost more than 2% and dropped to $4,047, and in the Asian session on October 23 it reached **$3,986.74** - the lowest level in three months. The $4,066.64-$4,227.90 corridor, in which the metal had traded for three weeks since the start of October, was broken to the downside.
Statistics Canada reported for September: Canadian industry selling prices rose 2.0% from August versus 1.3% a month earlier. The data were released on October 22 at 15:33 Moscow time - six days before the Bank of Canada meeting.
Yemen's Houthi movement said on October 22 that it had struck King Fahd Airport in Dammam, the Saudi Arabian Ministry of Defense building and another Saudi Aramco facility. Following this, Saudi Aramco (the world's largest oil company and Saudi Arabia's state company) ordered the evacuation of personnel from its headquarters in Dhahran and their transfer to remote work.
Meta Platforms (NASDAQ: META; the company is recognized as extremist and banned in the Russian Federation) on October 21 reported revenue above forecast, but on the same day a court in New Mexico ordered it to pay $25 billion in a data privacy case. The shares reacted with a rise of about 2%, to $708.
At 05:00 Moscow time, China's National Bureau of Statistics reported economic growth of 4.5% in the third quarter against expectations of 4.4%. The data came in better than forecast on almost all counts, and risk appetite lifted Bitcoin, Nasdaq futures and Asian stocks.
On Friday, October 16, the US stock market closed lower: Nasdaq lost 2.3%, S&P 500 - 1.2%. For the week, the Nasdaq 100 posted its steepest decline since April 2025.
On October 16 at 15:30 MSK, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (US Bureau of Labor Statistics) published the import price index for September: +1.1% versus August against the expected +0.8%. In annual terms, growth accelerated to 8.1% from 7.0% a month earlier.
Fed Chair Kevin Warsh spoke at 06:30 MSK at the IMF annual meeting in Bangkok and refused to give any hints on the rate. The dollar index DXY (the dollar's exchange rate against a basket of six currencies) moved to 101.82, down 0.22% and a 10-day low.
US September inflation came in above forecast: 3.7% versus expected 3.6%. Today, October 15, the market will receive three more important data blocks - PPI, retail sales and weekly jobless claims.
Robinhood has begun rolling out perpetual crypto futures trading for clients in the US. At launch, 8 assets are available, leverage up to 10x, settlement every 15 minutes, and a 0.01% fee per trade until the end of the year.
Today, September 30, at 15:30 MSK, the US releases Core PCE. The forecast is 0.3% versus 0.2% a month earlier. The indicator is important for assessing the further trajectory of the Fed rate.
Era Trade announced three changes: it allowed trades to be carried over the weekend on ByBit, revised the consequences of a first rule violation, and clarified how martingale is determined.
