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On October 30, US spot Bitcoin ETFs (exchange-traded funds through which Bitcoin is bought like a regular stock) lost $643.33 million - more than they had gathered over the previous four days combined. The streak of inflows was broken by the very first full trading session after the security incident at Binance.
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After $6.3 billion was stolen from the exchange's wallets, Binance stated that it has returned about 90% of the withdrawn assets and aims to resume operations on November 1.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.
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.
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.
In October, China's economy slowed again: the manufacturing, services and composite business activity indices dropped into contraction territory. The composite indicator plunged from 50.7 to 49.3 - the worst combination in recent months.
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.
Intel said the global personal computer market will shrink by about 12% in 2026 and another 10% in 2027. On Friday, October 30, the entire semiconductor sector and computer makers were sold off.
On Friday, October 30, at 20:45 Moscow time, Dallas Fed President Lori Logan said that bringing inflation back under control will require at least two more quarter-percentage-point rate hikes. Gold, amid expectations of tightening, hit a new low for the year.
From November 2 to 6, the market will get four reasons to move at once: the US midterm congressional elections, decisions from four central banks and the US employment report on Friday. The dollar enters this week after two weeks of decline and, for the first time in a long while, at its 200-week moving average.
Tether (the issuer of USDT, the largest stablecoin - a coin whose exchange rate is pegged to the dollar) reported $1.5 billion in operating profit for the third quarter of 2026. Since the start of the year, the result has reached $4.5 billion.
On the third-quarter earnings call, Michael Saylor, executive chairman of Strategy (the largest corporate holder of Bitcoin), said that the company's current balance sheet allows it to create up to $30 billion of "digital credit" for buying BTC. At a price of about $78,000 per coin, that is roughly 385,000 BTC - more than the company bought in all of 2026.
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.
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.
On Friday, October 30, XAU/USD lost more than 3% over the session and plunged to $3,891 — the lowest level since October 28, 2025. Just the day before, on October 29, the metal held around $4,000.
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.
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.
By the Friday open, the S&P 500 had lost 1.22% and moved to 7626.09 - below the September 30 close (7651.54). As recently as Wednesday evening, the month was up 1.21%; now October is down 0.33%.
Intel shares collapsed on Friday from $92.07 to $64.25, and the company lost about $147 billion in market capitalization in a single session. Intraday, the decline exceeded the record of July 5, 1974, which had stood for 55 years.
On October 30 at around 17:23 MSK, Bitcoin hit a 1.5-month low - that is, the price dropped below all values since mid-September.
