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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.
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From October 25 to 31, 30,435 BTC more were withdrawn from crypto exchanges than deposited - about $2.34 billion at the current rate.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.
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.
US spot ETFs (exchange-traded funds through which institutions buy cryptocurrency like an ordinary stock) closed October in the red: $1.61 billion was withdrawn from Ethereum funds and $515.03 million from Bitcoin funds. For ETH, this is the largest monthly outflow since launch.
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.
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, AMD shares closed at $504.80 versus $566.42 the day before. There was no company-specific news: the sector was dragged down by Intel's forecast, while AMD's own report is due on November 3.
Intel shares closed Friday, October 30 at $65.76 versus $92.07 the day before. Over October the stock slid from $120.23 and lost 45.3% - its worst month in more than four decades.
S&P Global Ratings affirmed Meta's AA- credit rating but changed its outlook from "stable" to "negative". The reason is spending on artificial intelligence infrastructure: for the quarter, it exceeded the money the company earned from operations.
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.
The international rating agency Fitch Ratings has changed its outlook on France's credit rating from 'stable' to 'negative'. The decision was unscheduled: agencies usually publish revisions according to a pre-announced calendar.
As of Friday, October 30, Apple's market capitalization stood at $5.03 trillion versus $4.93 trillion for Nvidia. The reason for the leadership change is not Apple's growth but a crash in semiconductors: Nasdaq Composite -3.37%, the chipmaker sector index Philadelphia Semiconductor -8.7%.
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.
HTX (a crypto exchange formerly known as Huobi) has agreed to stop attracting clients from the UK. The commitments were formalized through the High Court of London and are valid until October 21, 2031.
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.
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.
On October 30 at 12:11 Moscow time, preliminary data on price growth in Germany's largest federal states were released - a slowdown almost everywhere. This is the first guide to the national figure, on which the ECB's rhetoric in December depends.
Analytics firm Chainalysis (a company that tracks coin movements on the blockchain and works with exchanges and regulators) has traced the Binance hack: the attacker managed to convert about $325M into other assets to bypass blockades. In parallel, roughly $2.8B has been frozen in connection with the incident.
