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November 2, 2026

Kim Yo Jong Ties FBI’s Binance Hack Blame to Trump’s Crypto Reserve

Answering the FBI’s TraderTraitor finding, Pyongyang said a look at who ends up with any recovered Binance crypto may offer “a clue about who is behind the hacking incident.”

PODCASTS

November 3, 2026

How North Korea Stole $6.3 Billion From Binance in 20 Minutes

A compromised developer laptop and 50 pre-signed transactions let North Korea drain $6.3 billion from Binance. Jonty and Pablo Sabbatella trace how it happened.

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October 31, 2026

The Chopping Block: The Binance Hack, Circle’s Fast Freeze, YC’s Crypto Wishlist, and ICE Bringing Hyperliquid Perps Onshore

Rob Hadick guest-hosts for a second week with Tom and Robert, joined by Nemil Dalal of Y Combinator. Hours before the show, Binance lost an estimated $5 billion in what looks like the largest hack in crypto history, Circle and Tether froze funds faster than anyone expected, YC lays out its crypto Request for Startups, and ICE signs with trade.xyz to bring regulated perps built on Hyperliquid’s technology to US customers.

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Bitcoin’s Price May Have Bottomed. One Reason Is the AI Debasement Trade

October 29, 2026

Uneasy Money: Why Anthropic’s IPO Governance Has Crypto Veterans Worried

October 27, 2026

How AI Agents Are Exposing a Bank Business Model Built on ‘Laziness’

Episode #1257 | October 27, 2026

Why America’s New Cyber Privateers Can’t Go After North Korea

October 24, 2026

The Chopping Block: Black October, Banks Blocking AI Agents, Hyperliquid’s Blockchain-Not-Bitcoin Moment, and the Visa-Fireblocks Rumor

Episode #1255 | October 22, 2026

PaperTrade Attracted $140M, Then Changed the Rules. Was It a Bait and Switch?

October 22, 2026

Uneasy Money: Is the Internet Breaking Because Bots Never Get Lazy?

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How Crypto Can Survive If AI or Quantum Computers Break Its Cryptography

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Bitcoin

November 2, 2026

Strive’s Bitcoin Buying Slows to 124 BTC, About 2% of the Prior Week’s Total

The bitcoin treasury company now holds 43,124 BTC, and CEO Matt Cole said it tapped its SATS at-the-market program for the first time.

November 2, 2026

Strategy Adds 811 BTC With MSTR Sales as STRC Buybacks Top $400 Million in Two Weeks

Michael Saylor's company has put $413.1 million into STRC repurchases since Oct. 19, more than six times what it spent on bitcoin over the same stretch, its last two weekly filings show.

November 2, 2026

BTCPay Server Reports No Wallet Drains on Latest Release After Asking Merchants to Go Offline

BTCPay founder Nicolas Dorier said the attacker logged in as admin on instances that appear to be running versions before 2.4.2, and the project later said its investigation had pinned down the attack vector.

October 30, 2026

Franklin Templeton’s Dividend-to-Bitcoin ETFs Open on Nasdaq With About $72,000 in Trades

FBEQ and FIBT, which first traded on Thursday, build their bitcoin slice from dividends and reach it through ETPs, derivatives and depositary receipts rather than holding bitcoin directly, per their prospectuses.

Business

November 3, 2026

How North Korea Stole $6.3 Billion From Binance in 20 Minutes

A compromised developer laptop and 50 pre-signed transactions let North Korea drain $6.3 billion from Binance. Jonty and Pablo Sabbatella trace how it happened.

November 3, 2026

Binance Details Four-Month Path From Tainted Developer Install to $6.34 Billion Drain

In its initial report on the Oct. 29 theft, the exchange describes a months-long campaign that ended with a stolen deployment token and an Ethereum EIP-7702 trick on an MPC hot wallet.

November 3, 2026

ZachXBT Suspects Cover-Up as Tally on Suspected EU Theft Climbs to $133 Million

No institution has come forward, and ZachXBT says funds kept leaving exchanges after his first alert.

November 3, 2026

Brazil’s Mercado Bitcoin Puts Security Incident at $38 Million, Says Clients Won’t Lose Assets

The Brazilian exchange said it has already blocked $11 million with partners including Tether and Circle, and that deposits and withdrawals stay suspended until security is fully restored.

DeFi

November 3, 2026

How North Korea Stole $6.3 Billion From Binance in 20 Minutes

A compromised developer laptop and 50 pre-signed transactions let North Korea drain $6.3 billion from Binance. Jonty and Pablo Sabbatella trace how it happened.

November 2, 2026

A THORChain Bug Has Slowed North Korean Hackers Laundering Stolen Binance Funds

THORChain says the refund flaw a one-block Ethereum reorg exposed could let attackers pull funds from its vaults after future reorgs, and most of its chains are still halted.

November 2, 2026

Trade.xyz Tells Users Not to Click Its Documentation Links While It Probes GitBook Incident

The company said its GitBook documentation was restored as of 9:15 a.m. ET, but it has not said what the activity was or whether anything beyond the docs was affected.

November 2, 2026

Wallet-Drainer Attack on DeFi Front Ends Traces to Name.com, With Cause Still Unclear

Flap, Kintsu and Origami confirmed their sites were redirected on Friday night, while Blockaid flagged nine more; who opened the door is still disputed.

Ethereum

November 2, 2026

Arbitrum’s Security Council Can Move a Wallet’s Funds Without Its Key, Binance Freeze Shows

The council froze 8,426 ETH and 74.6 million ARB on Oct. 30, and a Nov. 2 walkthrough on Ethereum Magicians traces how it sent the transfers in the holder's name.

November 2, 2026

Bitmine Slows to 8,573 ETH Buy as Tom Lee Downplays Binance Hack

Bitmine's crypto, cash and stakes fell to $14.5 billion from about $15 billion a week earlier as ether slipped, leaving the company roughly 49,500 ETH short of its 5% goal.

October 27, 2026

Ethereum Developers Merge Glamsterdam Fix to Keep Validator Deposits Out of Builder Accounts

The change keeps validator deposits pending at the Gloas fork from being credited to a builder that shares the same key, a scenario its author called a conditional finding, not a live exploit.

October 26, 2026

Bitmine’s Holdings Value Dips to $15 Billion Despite 10,452 ETH Buy

Tom Lee's Bitmine is now about 58,000 ETH short of its 5% supply goal after spending roughly $46 million on its own stock last week.

NFTs

October 13, 2026

NFT Marketplace Blur Is Retiring Blur.io on Nov. 12, Keeping Its Contracts Live Onchain

Blur set Nov. 12 as the date it retires the blur.io interface, saying the marketplace protocol stays live onchain and the BLUR token keeps control of its fee switch.

September 1, 2026

StonkBrokers Are Popular on Robinhood Chain. But Is the NFT a Security or Collectible?

Owners must stake, post and attest to a permitted country to earn Robinhood Stock Tokens. Anyone can buy the NFT, and the portfolio inside it, with no KYC.

August 4, 2026

POAP Winds Down After Five Years and Nearly 7.6 Million Onchain Badges

Co-founder Isabel Gonzalez said POAP could not build a sustainable business without undermining what made the project matter, ending a protocol used by Coinbase, Amex, and Warner Music Group.

July 2, 2026

Melania Trump Raked in Over $6 Million From NFTs and Collectibles in 2025

The first lady's annual financial disclosure shows nearly $17 million in total earnings, driven by her Amazon documentary, memoir, and a booming NFT business.

Regulation

November 3, 2026

CFTC’s Selig Says Perpetual Futures on Individual Stocks Can Now Trade in the US

Chairman Michael Selig said the contracts were deemed approved as security futures under joint CFTC and SEC oversight, though his statement named no exchange, stock or start date.

November 3, 2026

Coinbase Says New Jersey Users Can Resume Staking as Regulator Rescinds 2023 Cease-and-Desist Order

The state’s Bureau of Securities withdrew the order without ruling on its merits, and Coinbase’s Molly Abraham named four more states as “next.”

November 2, 2026

HKMA Pilot Lets Banks Settle Tokenized Deposits Nights and Weekends in Central Bank Money

The HKMA's EnsembleTX pilot, now with 12 banks including HSBC and Standard Chartered, added round-the-clock interbank settlement nearly a year after it went live.

November 2, 2026

Bank of Korea Weighs How Its Banks Would Weather a Crypto Exchange Hack

The central bank's first such survey, per The Herald Business, asks 18 banks and 13 brokerages how they'd fare if a hack halted Korea's No. 1 crypto exchange, prices slumped or another firm took heavy losses. Answers are due Nov. 4.

Tech

November 3, 2026

How North Korea Stole $6.3 Billion From Binance in 20 Minutes

A compromised developer laptop and 50 pre-signed transactions let North Korea drain $6.3 billion from Binance. Jonty and Pablo Sabbatella trace how it happened.

November 2, 2026

Trezor Now Accepts 128-Character Passphrases, Pointing to Coldcard’s Seed Flaw

Trezor's Nov. 1 update lets most of its hardware wallets take passphrases up to 128 characters, and the company opened the announcement with the Coldcard seed failure.

October 30, 2026

Blockchain Data Firm Allium Says Every Chain Passed Checks After Security Incident

Allium says its warehouse data has passed verification checks for every chain five days after it found unauthorized access to its systems, but it has not said how that access happened or what it reached.

October 30, 2026

Trezor Treats One Report of an Implanted CryptoBilis Safe 5 as Credible Before Examining It

Four CryptoBilis-bought Trezors checked so far showed no tampering, and the company is asking anyone who bought from the reseller since March to move to a new seed.

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October 31, 2026

The Chopping Block: The Binance Hack, Circle’s Fast Freeze, YC’s Crypto Wishlist, and ICE Bringing Hyperliquid Perps Onshore

Rob Hadick guest-hosts for a second week with Tom and Robert, joined by Nemil Dalal of Y Combinator. Hours before the show, Binance lost an estimated $5 billion in what looks like the largest hack in crypto history, Circle and Tether froze funds faster than anyone expected, YC lays out its crypto Request for Startups, and ICE signs with trade.xyz to bring regulated perps built on Hyperliquid’s technology to US customers.

October 24, 2026

The Chopping Block: Black October, Banks Blocking AI Agents, Hyperliquid’s Blockchain-Not-Bitcoin Moment, and the Visa-Fireblocks Rumor

Rob Hadick guest-hosts in Haseeb’s seat with Tom, Tarun, and Robert. A 48-hour wave of disclosures that security experts are calling Black October hit PHP, Node, Railway, and the Linux kernel, banks from JPMorgan to Schwab start blocking AI agents while Bernie Sanders calls to pause AI, Joe Weisenthal comes around on Hyperliquid, and Visa is rumored to be buying Fireblocks.

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