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Issues ⚠️
The FBI attributed Binance’s record $6.3B hack on Oct 29 to North Korea’s TraderTraitor. Binance has replenished around 95% of the $3.3B in losses using SAFU funds and market purchases, including 7,499 BTC ($581M), and resumed withdrawals on Nov 1, recording $3.64B in net outflows.
Polymarket was drained of about $2.7M across 700+ wallets on Oct 29 after a compromised DebugBear monitoring script put a wallet drainer on polymarket.com. The script sold users’ positions and swept cash to an attacker wallet, and one trader reported losing $800K. Polymarket halted trading, restored it that evening, and reportedly promised compensation.
Bloom Trading reimbursed users after a $947K Solana hack. A remote code execution flaw in a third-party module drained 9,408 SOL from 49 wallets. No private keys were stolen; the company paused services and refunded users in nine transactions.
Keystone’s hardware wallet breach leaked names, addresses, and order data for about 26K buyers, and a device key may allow spoofed units. Keystone confirmed the breach and is destroying 18,835 units.
predict.Fun reported about 400,000 USDT in unauthorized wallet transfers hitting a small number of users over a short period. It suspects its third-party-hosted API documentation site was compromised and took the site offline.
Ostium opens Stage 2 of its recovery portal on Oct 31, with about 257,000 USDC becoming available. → If you were hit by the July exploit, check the post for eligibility.
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Wind Downs ⌛
Balancer moved most pools to withdrawals-only under BIP-928 and BIP-936. User funds remain accessible through the legacy interface. LPs should withdraw their positions.
Perps DEX 📉📈
ICE and trade[XYZ] plan to launch US perpetual futures on Hyperliquid, covering crypto, equities, commodities, and FX. ICE will operate the regulated market and clearing, while trade[XYZ] handles market design. The launch remains subject to regulatory approval.
Kraken's parent company plans to launch CFTC-regulated markets on Hyperliquid. No launch date or regulatory approval has been announced.
MetaMask launched Pro Mode for perps, adding pro-style order types inside the wallet. It follows MetaMask’s Anthropic pre-IPO perps from Oct 26.
DeFi 📈
BNB Chain is building a new high-performance L1 that runs alongside BSC, per a docs update from Oct 22. It will use BNB for gas, staking and governance with no new token, and targets 200ms blocks and ~20ms pre-confirmations.
A testnet is planned for late 2026 and mainnet for early 2027.
Elysium, a Kinetiq layer 2 settling to HyperEVM, targets a Nov 9 mainnet. HYPE is the gas token; 35,000 HYPE (about $3M) is already bridged, and 50% of sequencer fees are slated for KNTQ buybacks and burns.
Aerodrome completed its first AERO buyback, burning 174K AERO through its Momentum Fund.
Pendle’s cumulative buyback passed 3 million PENDLE, and it posted H2 2026 highlights, including PendleLoop.
Jupiter partnered with BitGo to launch an institutional validator.
Base launched Trencher Grants of $1,000–$5,000 for meme community leaders and event hosts, and Creator Grants Season 2 is coming soon. Denim mainnet arrives Nov 5, with native 200ms blocks coming later.
Stablecoins/RWA 🪙
Soneium launched ipUSD and an IP Vault with Asseto, backed by a $549M intellectual property royalties fund managed by Partners Group. It also outlined plans for a tokenized IP ecosystem and a future $SONEIUM token.
Ripple and Robinhood announced a strategic partnership. RLUSD is now available on Robinhood Chain and Bitstamp, with an app launch planned for later this year.
Ondo Finance brought 15 tokenized stocks and ETFs to Robinhood Chain with 11 Uniswap StablePair pools connecting Ondo Stocks with Robinhood Stock Tokens
Kamino introduced tokenized-stock lending through a Backpack market on Solana. Users can deposit stock tokens to borrow USDC at up to 40% LTV.
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News 🗞️
Strategy disclosed it sold about $431.8M of BTC year to date, funding part of its preferred dividends and STRC repurchases. CFO Andrew Kang steps down Nov 5, and Reza Virasteh takes over Jan 1, 2027. It also reported Q3 net income of $19.53B, mostly from $20.91B in digital asset gains, with holdings of 848,517 BTC, up 26% year to date.
Anthropic filed a public S-1 with the SEC on Oct 26. The filing shows no ticker or price terms, and a WatcherGuru post says the ticker is $ANT, which is unverified.
The Fed held rates at 3.75%–4% in a 10–2 vote, with Cook and Hammack dissenting for a hike, following September’s hike. BTC traded around $81,100 afterward.
Canton Strategic Holdings plans to trade its tokenized shares on the Canton Network through an issuer-sponsored model with Fairmint and TSV LLC.
BNB Standard rang the Nasdaq bell with CZ. The former CEA Industries holds about 515K BNB and plans its own validator.
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