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November 2, 2026

$106 Million Suspected Stolen From EU Entity as Funds Flow Into Monero: ZachXBT

The onchain investigator did not name the victim or the exchanges involved, but he published 11 addresses and a TRM Labs graph tracing the funds toward Monero and a Tron bridge.

PODCASTS

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

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 2, 2026

$106 Million Suspected Stolen From EU Entity as Funds Flow Into Monero: ZachXBT

The onchain investigator did not name the victim or the exchanges involved, but he published 11 addresses and a TRM Labs graph tracing the funds toward Monero and a Tron bridge.

November 2, 2026

Mercado Bitcoin Halts Withdrawals Over Security Incident as Hypernative Flags $40 Million Drain

The Brazilian exchange says no clients lost money, while monitoring firm Hypernative puts the outflows from wallets it attributes to Mercado Bitcoin at more than $40 million.

November 2, 2026

tZERO Signs $350 Million SPAC Deal With FG Imperii, Ties $12.5 Million to Derivatives Goals

Half of the merger's 2.5 million earnout shares hinge on tZERO's derivatives business, including a CFTC exchange application that is still pending.

November 2, 2026

Binance Puts Net Outflow at 2.1% of Its $171 Billion in Assets as Withdrawals Restart

Deposits brought back about 22 cents for every dollar withdrawn as the exchange restarted withdrawals, and Binance says it has now made up about 95% of the hack losses.

DeFi

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.

October 30, 2026

Jupiter Lend’s $414 Million USDC Vault Still Has Almost Nothing Free to Withdraw

Jupiter blames broader market conditions and says cash will free up as loans are paid down or fresh money comes in, but it has given no timeline.

October 29, 2026

zkLink Nova Goes Offline After Hacker Steals More Than $780,000 From Its Bridge

zkLink, the team behind Nova, said Thursday it had halted the network, patched the affected contracts and switched off withdrawals, after security firms said an attacker faked withdrawal approvals to drain funds from its bridge to Ethereum.

Ethereum

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.

October 23, 2026

Austin Griffith Demonstrates How Fast Bots Can Drain Weak Ethereum Keys

The Ethereum Foundation’s Austin Griffith put about $1 behind an easy-to-guess private key, and bots tried to take it within seconds.

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 2, 2026

Nvidia, Costco and 10 More Issuers Opt Out of ICE and OKX’s Tokenized Stock Venue

The venue’s Oct. 30 notice lists 50 objecting companies, up from 38 two days earlier, and still gives no date for trading to start.

October 30, 2026

Binance Turns Up in India’s $500 Million-Plus Crypto Probe as a Route for Foreign Payouts

India’s foreign-exchange enforcer says it searched four premises in Bengaluru and Madhya Pradesh on Oct. 27 over more than ₹5,000 crore in crypto transfers that it says crossed India’s borders without authorization.

October 30, 2026

KuCoin Pulls All Products From Users in Russia and Belarus, Effective Immediately

KuCoin's notice named no rule behind the cutoff. The same day, Russia's central bank said registered crypto exchange operators have 90 days to join a newly approved self-regulator.

October 30, 2026

Israel Extradites Nomad Suspect After Supreme Court Rejected His Code-Bug Defense

Alexander Block, who lost his fight against extradition at Israel's Supreme Court, now faces an eight-count federal indictment in California over the August 2022 Nomad hack.

Tech

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.

October 29, 2026

Singapore Police Link S$3.5 Million in Losses to Ledger Wallets Bought From Local Stores

Preliminary findings point to malicious hardware inside Ledger devices sold at some Singapore retailers, and police say Ledger is reviewing the cases.

October 27, 2026

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

Can the US fight AI-powered hackers and North Korea by deputizing its private sector? Two government veterans explain why the answer is yes and no.

In Case You Missed it

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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