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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.
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.
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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.
Brazil's largest crypto exchange Mercado Bitcoin suspended deposits and withdrawals on Monday, November 2, after its wallets were emptied across ten blockchains at once. Loss estimates from specialized security firms exceed $40M.
After a $6.3 billion hack - the largest in crypto history - Binance transferred 7,499 BTC from its SAFU insurance fund. The fund's Bitcoin reserves have roughly halved: from ~15,000 BTC to ~7,500 BTC (about $583 million), and the exchange has not given a timeline for replenishing it.
The FBI officially named the North Korean group TraderTraitor as the culprit behind the October 29 Binance hack. After the findings were released, clients withdrew a net $3.64 billion - 2.1% of all exchange assets.
Bitcoin gained about 1% to ~$78,600 in Monday morning hours and is closing its third straight day of gains - even as a week ago Binance disclosed a $6.3B theft, the largest in crypto exchange history.
Binance resumed withdrawals after the largest crypto hack in history at $6.3 billion and in the first nine and a half hours paid out a net $3.64 billion. The exchange itself calls this 2.1% of its assets.
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 October 29, hackers breached Binance's hot wallets (the exchange's network-connected storage) and withdrew $6.3 billion in assets. Two days later, the story became political: Donald Trump said the administration was dealing with the incident, and letters demanding federal oversight of exchanges began arriving in Congress.
Next Technology Holding (ticker NXTT, a software company from Japan) announced after market close on Friday, October 30, that its board of directors has authorized selling its Bitcoin or borrowing against it. This concerns 5,833 BTC - approximately $449M at a rate of about $77,000 per coin.
On Thursday, about $6.3 billion was withdrawn from Binance wallets — the largest theft in crypto market history. The exchange has reserved $6.34 billion to compensate clients, but withdrawals for users still do not work.
On October 30, the Kraken trading platform (one of the world's largest crypto exchanges) was completely down for about an hour - from 05:42 to 06:42 Moscow time. The outage coincided with a market slump following the $6.3 billion Binance hack.
On October 29, the Coinbase Premium Index dropped to -0.27% — the lowest since November 2022, when the FTX exchange collapsed. Put simply, US investors are selling BTC more actively than they are buying it.
After the hack of Binance hot wallets, options traders priced in the strongest Bitcoin swings since August, and the net outflow of coins from the exchange set a yearly record: 22,159 BTC, about $1.7 billion, on October 29 alone.
Late in the evening on October 29, about $6.3-6.4 billion across 10 blockchains was withdrawn from Binance's hot wallets (network-connected storage from which client payouts are made). This is the largest theft in the industry's history - roughly four times larger than the $1.5 billion Bybit hack in February 2025.
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.
India's largest crypto exchange CoinDCX banned opening new futures positions (leveraged contracts on an asset's price). The reason is a security incident at Binance, from which CoinDCX sources a significant portion of liquidity for its futures market.
Binance co-founder Yi He said withdrawals will begin to resume within 48 hours. The exchange halted withdrawals overnight after the attack, which it estimates caused $6.3 billion in damage, and promises to cover all user losses.
Overnight on October 30, about $6.3 billion left Binance's hot wallets (exchange storage connected to the network for fast withdrawals) - the largest theft in crypto history, four times larger than the $1.5 billion Bybit hack in February 2025.
On October 28, US spot Bitcoin ETFs (exchange-traded funds through which Bitcoin is bought like a regular stock) raised $137.3M, while Ethereum and Solana funds lost money again. Across the three markets combined, the result was +$110.2M.
GMO Internet's cloud hosting, where traders keep MetaTrader terminals and trading robots, was hacked. Broker OANDA Securities Japan postponed client payouts on October 22 to check applications for fraudulent transfers.
