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🔥 WATCH: @Bybit_Official's World Series of Trading 2026 kicks off with “The Opening Bell” as registration opens.

The global trading competition runs through Dec. 2, adding stocks, commodities and AI arenas, with up to 10M USDT in prizes.

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⚡️ TODAY: Elon Musk says super intelligence agents will one day exploit the financial system like the Binance hacker did, “to gain currency for themselves, not a human.”

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🇯🇵 JUST IN: The Bank of Japan has kept rates at 1.25%, still the highest since 1995, and says inflation has met its 2% target for the first time since 2013.

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🗞️ Need to catch up on the news? Here's our top 10 from today:

🔸 Binance says the hack likely stemmed from a compromised DevOps engineer’s laptop, with no sign of a private key leak.

🔹 Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong plans to sell up to $1.31B in $COIN shares through October 2027.

🔸 The Crypto Fear and Greed Index has slid to 35, its lowest level since August, down from extreme greed just two months ago.

🔹 Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong says Coinbase has blocked transfers to compromised wallets and offered help to Binance.

🔸 Over $1 billion liquidated in the past 24 hours, with longs taking $958M of the hit, as $BTC plunged below $78,000.

🔹 Ondo Finance launches seven tokenized portfolios on Solana, including three powered by BlackRock, spanning income, growth and thematic investments.

🔸 Polymarket says it has fixed an issue involving a compromised third-party provider and will make affected users whole, with trading temporarily halted as it works to restore the platform.

🔹 CFTC Chair Michael Selig says “the days of regulation by enforcement are over” while speaking at Chainlink’s LINK: NYC event.

🔸 Stellar is now a default network on MetaMask, with eligible accounts automatically including a Stellar address.

🔹 NYSE parent ICE takes a stake in Trade(.)xyz and plans a US-regulated perpetual futures market built on Hyperliquid.

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⚡️ LATEST: Strategy CFO Andrew Kang will step down on Nov. 5.

​CEO Phong Le will assume interim CFO duties until Senior VP Reza Virasteh takes over on Jan. 1, 2027.

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🚨 JUST IN: Binance says the hack likely stemmed from a compromised DevOps engineer’s laptop, with no sign of a private key leak.

It puts the total impact at about $6.3B.

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🚨 LATEST: Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong plans to sell up to $1.31B in $COIN shares through October 2027.

He says the sales only kick in at high price targets, and most of his net worth stays in $COIN.

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🚨 LATEST: OKX CEO Star Xu says the Binance hack should serve as a wake-up call for the industry, and urges exchange CEOs to unite on stronger shared security standards.

“Security is everyone’s responsibility. No company can protect the future of crypto alone.”

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🚨 ALERT: The Crypto Fear and Greed Index has slid to 35, its lowest level since August, down from extreme greed just two months ago.

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⚡️ NOW: Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong says Coinbase has blocked transfers to compromised wallets and offered help to Binance.

“Moments like this call for the industry to work together.”

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🚨 UPDATE: Chainalysis estimates about $5.91B was stolen in the Binance hack, nearly 4x the 2025 Bybit heist, while Binance has so far confirmed $3B frozen.

Can Binance recover the rest? 👀

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🚨 UPDATE: Binance says the verified frozen amount from the hack has climbed to about $3B, up from $2.54B earlier.

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🚨 UPDATE: Arbitrum Security Council freezes $30.5M linked to the Binance hack, per ZachXBT.

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🚨️️️️️️ JUST IN: Binance co-founder Yi He says the exchange will cover all losses from the hack and user funds remain safe, with deposits and withdrawals paused for security checks.

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🚨 JUST IN: Binance’s $2.5B hack may stem from a compromised signature system, not stolen private keys, says Blockaid CEO Ido Ben-Natan.

The attacker reportedly bundled 50 EIP-7702 authorizations into one transaction to hijack a Binance wallet.

Binance has yet to confirm the exact method.
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🚨 NOW: Over $1 billion liquidated in the past 24 hours, with longs taking $958M of the hit, as bitcoin:native plunged below $78,000.

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🚨 NOW: Binance has temporarily suspended Binance Alpha trading and certain CEX token purchase features as a security precaution, saying user funds remain safe.

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🚨 UPDATE: Justin Sun says TRON is monitoring Binance’s security incident and stands ready to assist.

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🚨 UPDATE: Cryptodotcom says it remains unaffected by the Binance attack and is blocking addresses linked to the incident.

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🚨 UPDATE: World Liberty Financial has frozen $27M in USD1 and $2M in WLFI tied to the Binance hack, working with BitGo to lock down the stolen funds.

Follow our live coverage for the latest developments 👇
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🚨 JUST IN: Binance officially confirms $2.54B in assets frozen so far, with the total potentially rising as efforts to trace funds continue.