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A tally by data account unfolded puts North Korea's cumulative crypto theft since 2019 at $9.6 billion, with the October 29 Binance hack accounting for roughly two-thirds of that sum on its own.
A day after one of the largest thefts in crypto history, Donald Trump, the CFTC chairman and US law enforcement agencies weighed in on the Binance breach, which Chainalysis has linked to the North Korean group TraderTraitor.
The blockchain analytics firm trusted by police forces, exchanges and banks confirmed Friday evening that its own systems were breached in October, exposing client identifiers, names, emails and roles.
An attacker used Ethereum's EIP-7702 delegation feature to hijack Binance's "Binance 14" hot wallet, part of a $6.3 billion multi-chain theft on October 29. Binance and TRM Labs disagree on how the breach started.
Binance has revised its loss estimate from a hacked hot wallet to $6.3 billion, the largest theft ever recorded at a crypto exchange, after stablecoin issuers and blockchain security councils raced overnight to freeze roughly $3 billion of the stolen funds.
CoinGecko's latest quarterly report shows total crypto market capitalisation surging 39.6% to near $3 trillion in Q3 2026, but spot trading volumes kept falling even as leveraged perpetual positions topped $100 billion for the first time in a year.
A twelve-month review of Binance and Bybit funding payments on BTCUSDT perpetual contracts shows actual returns closer to 3% than the oft-cited 11% annualised rate, once fees and settlement timing are factored in.
ESMA and the French, German and Greek watchdogs are examining whether Binance can lawfully keep serving EU clients under MiCA's reverse-solicitation exemption after failing to secure a licence, the Financial Times reports.
Four Greek firms have entered ESMA's MiCA registry as the Hellenic Capital Market Commission rejects a Wall Street Journal report alleging ECB chief Christine Lagarde pressured Greece's prime minister over Binance's licensing bid.
Binance is investing $100 million in Circle and has signed a five-year commercial agreement to expand the integration and promotion of USDC, with a particular focus on emerging markets.
The Wall Street Journal reports that ECB President Christine Lagarde personally asked Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis not to approve Binance's MiCA application, citing past US violations and fears over dollar stablecoins.
Binance withdrew its Greek MiCA application before regulators ruled, restricting its EU services since July. The Wall Street Journal reports ECB president Christine Lagarde may have pressed Athens against approval — a claim Greek regulator HCMC denies.
A seizure warrant unsealed by the US Department of Justice cites a February 2025 message from Hamas's al-Qassam Brigades instructing donors to route USDT through Trust Wallet, RedotPay, OKX, Kast or Bybit rather than transferring directly from Binance.