🚨 ICYMI: Binance got hacked for $6.3B last week, the largest theft in crypto history.

Here’s how it unfolded:

> suspicious wallet transfers flagged on Oct. 29
> Tether and Circle freeze over $2.36B
> Binance pauses withdrawals, pledges to cover all losses
> Aave freezes markets after attacker borrows $44.6M
> total frozen assets reach $3B
> Binance confirms $6.3B stolen
> initial findings point to a compromised engineer’s laptop
> investigators link attack to North Korea’s TraderTraitor
> Binance uncovers additional breach points
> reserves $6.34B to cover losses, including $5B in matching tokens
> Blockaid warns EIP-7702 may have helped bypass safeguards
> FBI and Secret Service join recovery efforts
> Aave reopens markets, confirms contracts unaffected
> US politicians clash over regulation
> Binance reports 90% replenished by Oct. 31
> replenishment reaches 95% on Nov. 1
> withdrawals begin reopening across 15 networks Sunday
> Binance reports $3.64B net withdrawals in Sunday’s first 9.5 hours
> on Nov. 2, Binance reports withdrawal volumes stabilizing

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⚡️ KEY EVENTS FOR THE REST OF THE WEEK (ET)

Tuesday, November 3
🇺🇸 US midterm elections (polls open from ~6:00 AM; first polls close 6:00 PM)
🇺🇸 JOLTS job openings (September) – 10:00 AM
Wednesday, November 4
🇺🇸 ADP employment report (October) – 8:15 AM
🇺🇸 S&P Global Services and Composite PMI (October) – 9:45 AM
🇺🇸 ISM Services PMI (October) – 10:00 AM
Thursday, November 5
🇺🇸 Initial jobless claims – 8:30 AM
Friday, November 6
🇺🇸 Nonfarm payrolls (October) – 8:30 AM
🇺🇸 Unemployment rate (October) – 8:30 AM

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🇺🇸 BIG: The SEC has updated its crypto token taxonomy FAQ.

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🇺🇸 NOW: Trump says oil prices are “DROPPING LIKE A ROCK,” down almost $10 a barrel, “A RECORD”.

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🇰🇵 HUGE: North Korea’s state media KCNA called claims that it was behind the $6.3B Binance heist a “fabrication,” despite the FBI attributing the attack to its TraderTraitor hacking unit.

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🇰🇵 BIG: Kim Yo Jong, Kim Jong Un’s sister and a senior Workers’ Party official, called the Binance heist accusations a US “political provocation” and said Pyongyang is watching closely, Yonhap reports.

Her remarks follow state media KCNA calling claims that North Korea was behind the $6.3B theft a “fabrication.”

The FBI has attributed the attack to North Korea’s TraderTraitor hacking unit.

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