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As of November 2, platforms held about 14.5 million ETH - less than 42% of the 2020 peak volume. At the same time, traders are unwinding leverage: open interest in ETH futures contracted by $3.11 billion over a month and a half.
The exchange published a report on the October 29 hack. It all began when a Binance engineer was looking for a new job and downloaded a "test assignment" from a fake employer onto his work computer. The FBI attributed the $6.4 billion theft to the North Korean group TraderTraitor.
Micron (MU, the largest American memory manufacturer) shares closed Monday at $833.59 - down $51.15 from the previous price of $884.74. Memory and chips lost more than $400 billion in market capitalization in a single session.
Third-quarter results are due after the US session close, with the management call at 01:00 MSK. The stock headed into the report already battered: on Monday it closed at $466.84, down 7.52% and near the day's low.
On October 29, about $6.36 billion was withdrawn from Binance across ten blockchains.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).
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 statistical office Destatis published preliminary data on Friday, October 30: annual consumer price growth in Germany slowed from 3.3% in September to 2.8% in October. The market expected 3.1%, meaning inflation came in noticeably weaker than forecast.
Istat (Italy's national statistics agency) published its preliminary October inflation estimate on October 30 at 13:01 MSK: +5.4% year-on-year versus the expected +4.6% and +4.2% a month earlier. The miss versus consensus was almost a full percentage point - for a eurozone country, that is a lot.
In its 10-Q filing (a mandatory quarterly document for the US market regulator, the SEC), Microsoft disclosed for the first time how much its deal with OpenAI brings in: $10 billion for July-September. That is about 11% of the corporation's total revenue.
The US Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC, the regulator of national banks) has granted Ripple final approval to launch Ripple National Trust Bank. Now the $2.5 billion in RLUSD stablecoin reserves will be managed under federal oversight.
MSCI (the largest provider of stock indices used by funds managing trillions of dollars) approved a rule on October 15: companies whose balance sheets are dominated by a single asset will lose their place in the MSCI Global Investable Market indices starting November 30, 2026. Bitcoin holders Strategy and Metaplanet are affected
FinCEN has withdrawn from consideration two major draft rules for cryptocurrencies: reporting on transfers to personal wallets from $10,000 and a separate control regime for crypto mixers. Both proposals had been under consideration for years but never came into force.
