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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.
Starting November 5, Samsung Wallet allows users to buy, store, send and receive USDC (Circle's stablecoin pegged to the dollar) on the Solana network. According to the company, the feature covers about 82 million compatible Galaxy smartphones in the US.
On November 5, Binance deleted all access keys associated with SignalPlus, a Hong Kong-based platform for trading crypto options and derivatives. The service itself reported a "potential security issue," and the exchange called the key revocation an immediate precautionary measure.
The Arbitrum network security council used special powers to transfer 8426 ETH and 74.6 million ARB from the Binance hacker's wallet - the owner's signature was not required for this. In parallel, Binance and Polymarket submitted a proposal to Polygon governance for a hard fork that would seize 70.49 million POL (about $6.8 million) from five addresses.
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.
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 SEC's Division of Corporate Finance (the US securities market regulator) announced on November 3 that it will not seek penalties for the issuance of the CC token of the Canton Network: in its assessment, it is a digital commodity, not a security. The token gained 4%.
The bank became one of the first users of the new tokenization service from DTCC, the clearing center through which US securities transactions pass. US stocks and Treasury bonds have been converted into tokenized form.
In the midterm elections on November 3, 2026, the Democrats gain control of the House of Representatives and the Senate. The key crypto market structure bill - the CLARITY Act - loses its chances of being passed in its previous form.
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.
On November 2, staff of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) published a clarification: distributing voting rights to thousands of holders does not in itself turn a token into a security. This concerns assets such as Uniswap (UNI) - the largest decentralized exchange on Ethereum.
After resuming withdrawals, Binance showed a daily net inflow of $1.82 billion. The weekly total, however, remained deeply negative: $11.832 billion in net outflow.
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.
Of the 62 American companies whose shares the OKXICE platform planned to trade as tokens around the clock, 43 have officially banned it. In total, there are 50 refusals; the response deadline for the first batch of notifications expires on Tuesday, November 3.
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 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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
The attacker who withdrew about $3 billion from Binance sold off seven tokens for $158.25 million and used all the proceeds to buy 70,480 ETH. About $2.86 billion remains under his control, while issuers managed to freeze another roughly $2.69 billion.
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.
