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Bitcoin mining difficulty hits 148 trillion as revenues fall to three-month lows
At October 30’s hashprice, a 25 J/TH rig covers power costing about 5.45 cents/kWh after an assumed 2% pool fee. Read the full story on CryptoSlate Understand the crypto stories that matter and what to watch next. Get The Catalyst in your inbox
Live updates: Binance says $6.34B set aside to cover hack losses
Follow live updates as Binance says $6.3 billion in assets have been stolen in a major hack. Around $3 billion in stolen funds have been frozen. Oct. 30 at 11:07 am UTC Binance is buying altcoins in quantities matching those stolen in the hack as it prepares updated proof of reserves, co-CEO Yi He said. The purchases are being made through over-the-counter deals and on exchanges, she said.
Zcash grants group offers $124M compromise as governance backlash grows
Zcash Community Grants proposed redirecting about $124 million in existing and future funding toward mining rewards, but critics say the plan fails to address governance and accountability concerns. Zcash Community Grants (ZCG) has proposed redirecting about $46 million in Zcash tokens from its treasury to future block rewards, but industry figures criticized the move, demanding greater accountability for the fund. On Thursday, ZCG proposed transferring 36,200 ZEC from its roughly 91,500-ZEC treasury to the Network Sustainability Mechanism (NSM), which reserves coins for future mining rewards. If approved, the committee would retain about 55,200 ZEC, worth about $70 million at the time of writing. The group also proposed forgoing about 62,000 ZEC ($78.5 million) in future allocations and…
Here’s how an Ethereum upgrade helped drain part of Binance’s $6 billion loss
On Ethereum, the attacker used a 2025 upgrade built to make ordinary wallets smarter, armed with 50 signatures from Binance's own wallet.
Bitcoin price metrics hint at rebound as $1.6B liquidations follow Binance hack
Bitcoin held above $76,000 after a $6.3 billion Binance hack and a tech-stock sell-off, as momentum indicators pointed to a possible rebound. Bitcoin (BTC) traded above $77,000 on Friday as crypto market liquidations passed $1.5 billion over 24 hours. Key points:
Your Trezor Could Be Compromised: Company Issues Urgent Warning to Customers
Following Ledger's hardware tampering revelations, Trezor is now facing its own security scare involving a potentially compromised Safe 5 device.
CertiK Partners with Arbitrum and Robinhood Crypto to Support Web3 Startups
[PRESS RELEASE – New York, New York, October 30th, 2026] CertiK has partnered with Arbitrum and Robinhood Crypto through the Arbitrum Mentorship Program, an initiative designed to help early-stage Web3 teams turn promising ideas into successful products. As part of the program, CertiK will provide security tools, professional services, and expert mentorship to help participating …
Binance uncovers more breach points in $6 billion hack
Binance said investigators uncovered additional breach points in the approximately $6 billion hack after initially suspecting a compromised employee laptop. The exchange has not disclosed what those additional breach points were. In an earlier Oct. 30 security update, the exchange said its preliminary investigation identified a potentially compromised DevOps engineer's laptop that may have allowed… Read the full story on CryptoSlate Understand the crypto stories that matter and what to watch next. Get The Catalyst in your inbox
Crypto liquidations jump to $1.57 billion as Binance hack sends bitcoin, ether lower
Bitcoin traded near $77,350 after $6.3 billion Binance hack, with crypto futures liquidations jumping to $1.57 billion.
EIP-7702 didn’t cause Binance hack, but may have amplified losses
Security experts say attackers could have drained Binance’s wallets without EIP-7702, but the Ethereum upgrade may have helped bypass withdrawal safeguards. Compromised signing systems likely enabled Binance’s $6.3 billion hack, while Ethereum’s EIP-7702 upgrade may have helped attackers bypass security checks, according to blockchain security firm Blockaid. Attackers could have stolen the funds without EIP-7702, Ido Ben-Natan, Blockaid’s co-founder and CEO, told Cointelegraph on Friday. “The 7702 upgrade is a way to do this in one sweep and maybe a way to bypass some sort of checks they may have,” Ben-Natan said, explaining that attackers otherwise would have needed multiple transactions.
Binance hacker’s Bitcoin haul tops Coinbase’s corporate treasury
The attackers held 18,270 BTC early Friday, topping Coinbase’s reported corporate holdings, and an Ether stash exceeding 500,000 ETH. The attackers behind the $6.3 billion Binance hack held more Bitcoin on Friday than crypto exchange Coinbase’s holding for investment and operation at the end of September. Blockchain analytics firm Bitquery traced 18,270 Bitcoin (BTC), worth roughly $1.4 billion, to 19 addresses linked to the attacker. Coinbase reported holding 17,954 BTC for investment and 117 BTC for operations as of Sept. 30, a combined 18,071 BTC. The Binance hacker’s haul exceeded that total by 199 BTC. Coinbase’s holdings does not include the BTC that the exchange holds for customers.
Polymarket suffers second multimillion-dollar security breach in just four months
June's reported theft and October's recovered code reveal recurring exposure inside the trading interface, while broader security changes remain unclear. Read the full story on CryptoSlate Understand the crypto stories that matter and what to watch next. Get The Catalyst in your inbox
Trezor Warns CryptoBilis Buyers After Report of Hardware Implant in Safe 5
The hardware wallet manufacturer has yet to examine the device, but is treating the report as credible and told buyers to move their funds.
THORChain’s RUNE jumps 13% after Binance’s record $6.3B hack
North Korean hackers previously used THORChain to move funds stolen from Bybit and Bitget, prompting calls for the protocol to intervene. THORChain’s RUNE token rose more than 13% on Friday after Binance confirmed a $6.3 billion hack. RUNE climbed to $0.67 at the time of writing from a local low of $0.59 at 12:20 a.m. UTC, according to TradingView data. Onchain investigator ZachXBT reported Friday that funds stolen from Binance and September’s Bitget hack had passed through THORChain before being combined at the same Ethereum address.
Strategy CFO Andrew Kang resigns as company posts record operating profit
Andrew Kang’s departure comes as Strategy reports $21 billion in quarterly operating income and bitcoin holdings of 848,517 BTC.
Binance Finds 'Additional Points of Breach' in $6.3B Hack
CEO Richard Teng said the attack was "not a single 'one-click' action," as Binance confirmed about $3 billion has been frozen.
Trezor warns CryptoBilis buyers to move funds over suspected implant
Trezor urged customers who bought devices from CryptoBilis since March to move their funds after a report of a suspected hardware implant. Trezor has urged customers who bought its hardware wallets from former authorized reseller CryptoBilis since March to move their funds after a report of a suspected implant in a Safe 5 device. Trezor said Friday that a customer in Indonesia reported an unauthorized circuit board inside a Trezor Safe 5 bought on Tokopedia in August. According to the report, the suspected implant could capture information displayed on the device’s screen, including wallet recovery phrases, and transmit it over a cellular network. Trezor said it had not yet examined the device and had received no reports of related losses.
Anthropic Claude AI Predicts an Unbelievable XRP Q4 Move
Anthropic’s Claude AI predicts a frankly insane XRP price target by January 1, 2027. Somewhere in its notes, there’s a number. It’s a market cap in the trillions, contingent on a hypothetical catalyst for Ripple that could see it flip Ethereum as the market’s second-largest digital asset.XRP price is sitting around $1.29, after drifting down …
Binance Hack: Are Funds Safu? What We Know So Far About the Biggest Heist in Crypto History
Cryptocurrency giant Binance faces what could be the largest exchange hack in history after a security breach affected an estimated $6.3 billion in digital assets, eclipsing the record-setting $1.5Bn Bybit exploit in 2025. The Binance hack has led the exchange to pledge to cover all losses, while investigators work to identify the attackers and recover …