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TLDR Binance founder Changpeng Zhao thanked the U.S. Secret Service and federal agencies for helping freeze stolen crypto after the October 29 hack. Binance estimates about $6.3 billion was a
Aero, the decentralised exchange formed from the merger of Aerodrome and Velodrome, has launched Autopilot, a tool that lets $AERO stakers automate how their positions are managed. The releas
About one in every five $MON tokens is now staked, according to data from @Coinbase. The figures indicate that roughly 20% of the native token of @Monad is locked on the Layer 1 network itsel
THORChain (@THORChain) co-founder Chad Barraford (@CBarraford) has said that THORNode operators hold no private information beyond what is already on public blockchains. His comments came aft
$PURR, the memecoin on @HyperliquidX, is the fastest-growing major memecoin in the sector this week, up about 23% at the time of writing. The move puts it ahead of gains from other large meme
The @FBI has attributed the theft of more than $6 billion from the @Binance exchange to North Korea, formally naming the state-linked hacking group TraderTraitor. The agency said North Korea
Chainlink's $LINK ecosystem has had an active October, with product launches aimed at institutions, a new network integration and further additions to its token reserve. The price of LINK has
Arbitrum (@arbitrum) $ARB recorded a $5.1 billion increase in stablecoin transfer volume over seven days, according to Token Terminal data dated November 1. A separate report on the figure sa
Uber (@Uber) has completed a pilot of a tokenized cash management system on the Canton Network (@CantonNetwork), working with HSBC (@HSBC), Franklin Templeton (@FTDA_US), Tradeweb and Fireblo
Starknet (@Starknet) says its account abstraction design could make the shift to quantum-resistant cryptography easier than on other major blockchains. The project argues that its architectur
On November 1, 2026, open-source Bitcoin payment processor BTCPay Server issued an emergency shutdown warning after discovering that attackers were actively stealing funds from merchant hot w
A wallet linked to the hacker behind the record Binance theft sold about $5 million worth of $PROM tokens into a nearly empty @Uniswap liquidity pool and received only about $71 in $ETH, acco
