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BitMart founder Sheldon Xia confirmed the November 2 attack and admitted that the platform's security team is "severely understaffed." The exchange itself has been heading toward closure since July and still has not settled with clients.
The Brazilian crypto exchange Mercado Bitcoin has announced the date for the phased return of clients - November 9. The new estimate of what was stolen has risen to $48.6 million versus about $46 million in the first hours after the hack.
Thailand's Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC, the local financial market regulator) announced on November 5 that the Bitget website, related domains and mobile application will be blocked in the country starting December 5. At the same time, a criminal complaint has been filed against the exchange operator, BG Limited, for operating without a license.
Hong Kong has passed a law under the OECD standard: starting in 2027, crypto platforms will begin collecting data on clients and their transactions, and from 2028 the city will begin transmitting this data to the tax authorities of other countries. The announcement was released on November 4, 2026.
On November 4, journalist Eleanor Terrett reported that the US House of Representatives is discussing a new crypto market structure bill. It expands the powers of the SEC (US Securities and Exchange Commission) and reduces the role of the CFTC (Commodity Futures Trading Commission), which the Republican version assigned to it.
The exchange published a release on the phased return of withdrawals for a new group of assets - among them UNI (the Uniswap exchange token) and AAVE (the token of the Aave lending protocol). Access is being opened across several withdrawal networks at once.
Coinbase has connected clients of its institutional Prime division to the Deribit platform: crypto options and perpetual futures, which were previously traded mainly outside US regulation, have become available to US funds and companies. The announcement was made on November 4.
The world's largest crypto exchange published an expanded reconciliation of client funds after a $6.34 billion theft and stated that it had replenished about 98% of the affected assets. Withdrawals, however, are not fully open.
The relevant committee of the Verkhovna Rada supported bill No. 10225-d on regulating the crypto market - the document was prepared over three years. A second reading is ahead in November, with entry into force planned for July 1, 2027.
Kraken has restricted access to some accounts while an investigation is underway: assets allegedly stolen from one of the crypto projects in Europe arrived on the platform. The amount in question is more than $133 million; the name of the affected project is not disclosed.
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.
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.
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.
On October 29, about $6.36 billion was withdrawn from Binance across ten blockchains. $2.85 billion (44%) was frozen or seized, the remaining $3.24 billion sits in more than 950 attacker wallets, and part of it has already passed through mixers (services that mix coins to break the trail).
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.
From October 25 to 31, 30,435 BTC more were withdrawn from crypto exchanges than deposited - about $2.34 billion at the current rate. A week earlier the picture was the opposite: a net inflow of 3,434 BTC to the platforms.
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.
After $6.3 billion was stolen from the exchange's wallets, Binance stated that it has returned about 90% of the withdrawn assets and aims to resume operations on November 1. Full cryptographic proof of reserves is promised by November 3.
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.
