Bitcoin staking platform b14g suffered a $1.47 million exploit on Oct. 31, losing approximately 97 million CORE tokens. The attacker drained 91 staking positions in a single transaction by submitting withdrawal requests for zero CORE, according to an investigation by blockchain analytics firm Bitquery. The staking platform confirmed the unauthorized withdrawals and said it had… Read the full story on CryptoSlate Understand the crypto stories that matter and what to watch next. Get The Catalyst in your inbox
The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has blamed North Korea's TraderTraitor operation for stealing more than $6 billion from Binance. In an Oct. 31 security alert, the agency attributed the Oct. 29 attack to North Korean cyber actors, providing official US government confirmation of the perpetrators behind one of history's largest cryptocurrency thefts. The… Read the full story on CryptoSlate Understand the crypto stories that matter and what to watch next. Get The Catalyst in your inbox
Bitcoin miners spent years securing cheap electricity, building substations, and negotiating the grid connections needed to power their operations. Now AI companies want those connections so badly they're willing to make aging mines valuable real estate. The ASICs that mine Bitcoin are practically useless for training AI models, but the land, substations, and power agreements… Read the full story on CryptoSlate Understand the crypto stories that matter and what to watch next. Get The Catalyst in your inbox
Something potentially transformative could be on the horizon for BNB by January 1, 2027. Anthropic’s Claude AI predicts that even amidst the ongoing $6.3Bn Binance hack, BNB might be poised for a historic fourth quarter. This prediction is based on an intentionally extreme scenario centered around a hypothetical landmark catalyst.The catalyst involves BNB Chain being …
The crypto exchange said it has begun phased withdrawals after the record hack the FBI has blamed on North Korea. Binance said it has reopened its Bitcoin network in phase one of resuming withdrawals after a major hack of about $6.3 billion in funds. The crypto exchange had suspended user withdrawals after the attack on Thursday, which the FBI blamed on North Korean operatives. “First batch network now opened in phase one of withdrawals is $BTC bitcoin network,” Binance said on X.
US agency seeks private-sector help to block further money-laundering of stolen digital assets. The FBI said that the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea) was responsible for the theft of about $6.3 billion in digital assets from cryptocurrency exchange Binance on Thursday. The FBI said on Saturday in a news release that it refers to this specific North Korean malicious cyber activity as “TraderTraitor,” which it has most recently observed converting stolen assets mostly into Ether (ETH). It expects these assets to be further converted, using DeFi and instant swap services, as the hackers move to more advanced laundering stages.
Bitcoin’s decline has accelerated into the $77K region after buyers lost the $80K support area. The price is now testing a major daily demand zone, while on-chain data shows it approaching the average cost basis of recent holders. Bitcoin Price Analysis: The Daily Chart On the daily timeframe, Bitcoin has decisively broken beneath the ascending …
Agave leaves the applied-rate field empty, so verifying a staking fee requires historical validator state and delegation evidence. Read the full story on CryptoSlate Understand the crypto stories that matter and what to watch next. Get The Catalyst in your inbox
Higher selected derivatives exposure and ETF redemptions leave the recovery facing a demand test before November 6 payrolls. Read the full story on CryptoSlate Understand the crypto stories that matter and what to watch next. Get The Catalyst in your inbox
While the FBI listed hundreds of addresses in its notice, Chainalysis said the Binance attackers have already used "thousands addresses," and expects this number to continue growing.
