The French bank has not confirmed its alleged involvement in the crypto theft, which ZachXBT said could have resulted in losses exceeding $133 million. Onchain investigator ZachXBT has identified French banking group Crédit Mutuel Arkéa as the alleged victim of a crypto theft exceeding $133 million, warning that total losses could be higher. On Wednesday, the pseudonymous crypto sleuth said the institution, which he described as having $235 billion in assets, was allegedly exploited over multiple days. He also suggested that additional losses may have occurred through over-the-counter (OTC) transactions that were not included in earlier estimates. “I suspect the amount stolen is larger when accounting for OTC activity,” ZachXBT said.
Justin Sun accused the President Donald Trump-backed crypto firm World Liberty Financial of concealing UAE citizenship to escape his federal lawsuit. The Tron founder said on Nov. 3 that his lawyers had requested sanctions against World Liberty Financial and its attorneys after the company disclosed foreign ownership connections months into litigation over his $45 million… Read the full story on CryptoSlate Understand the crypto stories that matter and what to watch next. Get The Catalyst in your inbox
Binance said it thwarted 57 suspected North Korea-linked cyber threats in 2026, yet a fake interview compromised one of its engineers. The disclosure, in the exchange's Nov. 3 security report, reveals how attackers used a recruitment scam involving staged interviews, fabricated identities, and malicious software to access systems involved in the $6.34 billion cryptocurrency theft… Read the full story on CryptoSlate Understand the crypto stories that matter and what to watch next. Get The Catalyst in your inbox
Crypto executives expect US regulators to drive crypto policymaking regardless of the midterm election outcome. With voting underway in the US midterm elections and control of Congress at stake, Maylea Ma, deputy general counsel at 1inch, said she expects federal agencies to drive the next phase of crypto regulation. The election could reshape the path forward for the stalled CLARITY Act, but Ma said “real movement” in US digital-asset regulation over the next few years will come from the US Securities and Exchange Commission, Commodity Futures Trading Commission and Treasury, rather than Congress. Ma said those agencies were increasingly engaging with crypto projects. However, agency engagement does not provide the stability the industry had hoped to secure through legislation.
THORChain has restored trading on Bitcoin, Ethereum and several other networks following a refund bug, while three chains remain paused. THORChain’s RUNE token rose about 15% over the past 24 hours as the cross-chain swap protocol restored trading on most networks following a weekend halt triggered by an Ethereum block reorganization. THORChain (RUNE) was trading at around $0.64 on Wednesday, up approximately 15% over the previous day, according to CoinMarketCap. THORChain’s network status page showed trading and transaction signing marked “OK” on 10 of its 13 listed external networks. BNB Smart Chain, Cosmos Hub and Solana continued to show warnings for both functions.
At the November 2 close, an independent comparison narrows XRP’s Coinbase discount from 0.168% to 0.006% after converting USDT into dollars. Read the full story on CryptoSlate Understand the crypto stories that matter and what to watch next. Get The Catalyst in your inbox
Sam Altman’s ChatGPT AI predicts ‘Will crypto recover?’. When prompted, the OpenAI bot gave an in-depth answer on whether and when crypto will see brighter days. It believes that although the market has pulled back from its previous cycle highs and remains in a consolidation phase, there is a chance of a full-blown bull market …
Follow live coverage of the 2026 US midterm elections, including key congressional races, crypto-backed candidates and what the results could mean for digital asset regulation. Within the next few hours, we will begin to learn whether President Donald Trump’s Republican Party has managed to retain control of the US Congress, determining his ability to advance his legislative agenda during the final two years of his term. Americans headed to the polls Tuesday for the 2026 midterm elections, with all 435 seats in the US House of Representatives and 35 Senate seats up for grabs. Republicans currently control both chambers of Congress, holding 53 Senate seats to 45 Democrats and two independents who caucus with them, along with a narrow advantage in the House. Democrats need a net gain of four…
The $6.3 billion Binance hack showed how quickly cryptocurrencies can disappear on blockchain rails. Tokenized securities may offer better recourse than crypto after a theft, but the markets around them can still break down when stress hits.
Hackers exploited Binance's internal artificial intelligence tools to compromise engineers before stealing $6.34 billion in cryptocurrency, the exchange disclosed. In its Nov. 3 security report, Binance said attackers used a compromised employee computer and an internal AI tool on Oct. 20 to take control of two engineers responsible for its wallet infrastructure. The attackers subsequently… Read the full story on CryptoSlate Understand the crypto stories that matter and what to watch next. Get The Catalyst in your inbox
A group backed by Citadel Securities and other firms sued the U.S. derivatives regulator for opening a path for perps that it argued belong in the SEC's hands.
Bitcoin (BTC) might not need another halving, another wave of institutional adoption, or even another round of monetary easing to deliver one of its most explosive rallies yet. Anthropic’s Claude AI predicts that it might need something considerably bigger: a fundamental shift in how the world’s largest economies treat Bitcoin.Imagine the United States announcing a …
Something potentially game-changing could be approaching for XRP by January 1, 2027. According to Elon Musk’s AI bot, Grok AI predicts that in an intentionally extreme scenario built around a hypothetical landmark catalyst, Ripple could surge to unprecedented heights.The concept revolves around a large global consortium of banks and payment networks officially choosing the XRP …
SpaceX joined several other issuers objecting to OKXICE tokenized trading, months after crypto platforms offered tokens tied to its shares. Just months after tokenized versions of SpaceX shares became one of the biggest drivers of onchain stock trading, the aerospace company is pushing back against plans to bring similar trading to US investors. According to a Nov. 2 public notice from OKXICE, SpaceX has objected to the proposed listing of tokenized versions of its shares on the trading venue, a joint venture between crypto exchange OKX and New York Stock Exchange parent Intercontinental Exchange (ICE). The company now joins Tesla and Amazon among 56 companies objecting to the proposed listings. Under the Securities and Exchange Commission’s five-year Innovation Exemption introduced in Sep…
