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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 largest prop firm aggregator prop firm Match admitted that clicking on a company card or on a promo code on its website opened the partner's website via an affiliate link (a link through which the aggregator is credited with a commission from the sale). Since October 30, about 21 brands have terminated the partnership, and the platform has 38 partners left.
As of November 1, 2026, the prop firm PipFarm has abolished the fixed maximum payout of $5,000 per withdrawal. Instead, an increasing limit applies: after each successful payout it rises by 1 percentage point, with no announced upper limit.
Today, November 2, Apple publishes its quarterly report - and this is the company's first report under the leadership of new CEO Ternus. The backdrop is challenging: costs are being pressured by more expensive memory.
The largest prop firm comparison site prop firm Match admitted that it substituted its affiliate link even for those who simply opened the company's page or copied a promo code. Within a few days, at least six partners left it, including Apex Trader Funding and Blue Guardian.
On November 1, Binance gradually reopened crypto asset withdrawals, which had been halted after the largest hack in crypto market history - damage is estimated at $6.3 billion. The exchange states that it has already reimbursed about 95% of the affected assets from its own resources and will not pass the losses on to clients.
Topstep, Apex Trader Funding, Tradeify and Goat Funded Trader have ended their partnership with Match, one of the largest prop firm aggregators. The publicly stated reason was concerns over affiliate tracking: the mechanism by which the catalog earns a commission on every challenge purchased through its link.
On Thursday, about $6.3 billion was withdrawn from Binance wallets — the largest theft in crypto market history.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.
In its 10-Q report (a mandatory quarterly report public companies file with the SEC, the US market regulator), Microsoft for the first time named the exact amount of money OpenAI brings in: $10.0B for the quarter ended September 30, 2026. That is about 11% of the company's total quarterly revenue.
Bitcoin's crash amid reports of a Binance hack wiped out the positions of 254,258 traders. Almost 86% of the total volume was long positions, i.e., bets on growth.
Statistics Canada reported for August: the economy did not grow at all, and the preliminary estimate for September is already minus 0.1%. For the market, this is an argument in favor of a softer Bank of Canada policy and a reason to reassess the Canadian dollar.
Binance co-CEO Richard Teng stated that no traces of a private key leak (secret access codes to wallets) were found. At the same time, 11 keys of the exchange's hot wallets (wallets connected to the network for fast payouts) signed transfers to the attacker's address. Withdrawals from the exchange are still halted.
The Bank of Japan kept its short-term rate at 1.25% with an 8-1 vote and noticeably tightened its language: core inflation hit the 2% target for the first time since 2013. The yen is strengthening, USD/JPY falls for the third day in a row.
On October 29, the KuCoin crypto exchange announced the termination of services for users from Russia and Belarus. The restrictions apply to all products and services of the platform and take effect immediately, with no transition period.
Prop firm SpiceProp has launched a Halloween promotion: a single promo code gives three bonuses at once on any challenge, and a $300,000 funded account will additionally be raffled among buyers.
BTC has lost almost 2% and is holding around $80,150, briefly dipping below $80,000. For Strategy (Michael Saylor's company, the largest corporate holder of Bitcoin), this means its coins are worth only 6% more than it paid for them.
South Korean Mirae Asset has agreed to buy the proprietary trading division from Japan's Okasan Securities. The deal is worth about $32 million, and through it the Korean group is entering the Japanese market. Nikkei Asia reported the deal on October 28.
Galaxy Research analyzed the filings of major managers: nine hedge funds and banks cut their positions in U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs by 68,000 BTC - about $5.4 billion. The reason is not a bet against the market, but that the arbitrage scheme has almost stopped generating income.
Velaris Markets has announced the launch of a dual model: brokerage services and prop trading now operate within a single brand. The announcement was released via GlobeNewswire on October 28 at 18:35 MSK.
On October 28, the prop firm FundingPips announced that it is stopping enrollment in PRIME - a closed program for selected traders with account scaling and a personal mentor. Those already inside keep their terms; new ones are not accepted.
Four new refusals have been added to the OKXICE project - a joint venture between the OKX crypto exchange and Intercontinental Exchange (the owner of the New York Stock Exchange). Now 26 issuers from the original list of 62 companies have spoken out against trading tokenized versions of their shares.
From October 19 to 23, spot Bitcoin ETFs in the US (exchange-traded funds through which Bitcoin is bought like an ordinary stock) attracted $304.73 million, although $635.49 million was withdrawn from them on Wednesday alone. Ethereum funds closed the week with an outflow of $220.6 million.
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.
