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@ZachHumphries Not advice, but the usual rule: keep on exchanges only what you actively trade. Move the rest to a wallet you control, hardware if it's a big amount. And never share your seed phrase with anyone.
Binance hot wallet just moved ~$2.5B in one transaction to a fresh address funded through Tornado Cash.
Hack or internal shuffle? Nobody knows yet. Binance hasn’t confirmed anything.
But here’s what’s already real: ~$600M in longs got wiped out in an hour. On a rumor.
CZ warned days ago that AI will make phishing and scams way harder to spot. Now imagine fake “Binance hacked” screenshots made in 10 seconds.
Wait for confirmation before you panic
@Standout_x Fair caution, but one detail weakens the reshuffle theory: Tether froze 1.5B+ USDT and Circle ~823M USDC. Issuers don't freeze an exchange moving its own funds.
A $2.7B transfer is alarming. It still isn’t proof of a hack.
On-chain trackers flagged billions in assets moving from wallets attributed to Binance across five blockchains. Binance hasn’t confirmed a breach, and the transfers could be an internal reshuffle.
Meanwhile, Ethena says its exchange-exposed collateral is held with off-exchange custodians.
For now, this is a developing security concern—not a confirmed Binance hack.
@philarekt That wallet kept going. Analyst Spreek counts ~$3.55B incoming, with ~$900M already pushed out to other wallets. Tether and Circle froze a big chunk, but ETH can't be frozen.
@CryptosR_Us Update on the freeze: Tether is now at 1.5B+ USDT per Paolo Ardoino, plus ~823M USDC from Circle. The part nobody can freeze is the ~195K ETH. That's the trail to watch.
@QmoCrypto Careful mixing these up. Bitget's hack was in September, ~$387M. Bybit's big one was Feb 2025, ~$1.5B. Tonight it's Binance only, and they say they're still investigating.
@CryptoTweets Even at the low end (~$3.3B) it would beat Bybit's ~$1.5B. But 1.5B+ USDT and ~823M USDC are already frozen, so the real loss could end up much smaller.
$2.77B just walked out of Binance wallets across 5 chains
BNB down 9%, $600M in longs gone in an hour, Tether and Circle reportedly freezing funds
Binance says “investigating”. CZ says SAFU
biggest exchange, biggest question mark of the year
$3.3 BILLION MOVED FROM BINANCE IN 17 MINUTES. HACK OR MAINTENANCE?
At 20:24 UTC, a Binance hot wallet sent ~167K ETH, ~$1.6B USDT and 60+ other tokens to a brand-new address.
17 minutes later, another Binance wallet sent 780M USDC to the same address.
On-chain analysts suspect a breach. Binance hasn’t commented yet.
Could be a hack. Could be routine wallet maintenance. No confirmation so far.
The market reacted anyway: $629M in positions liquidated within an hour.
If you have funds on Binance:
- Follow only Binance’s official channels
- Enable withdrawal address whitelisting
- Ignore DMs claiming to be support
Don’t panic. Don’t trust rumors. Wait for confirmation
Not your keys, not your coins
Developing story. A hack has not been confirmed
What to watch next on Binance:
• Do withdrawals stay open?
• Where the ~195K ETH goes: bridge, mixer, or nowhere
• An official word from @binance
BNB fell as much as 9%, and ~$629M in longs got liquidated in an hour.
Keeping funds on Binance tonight? 👇
NFA
@dawerhix Numbers are all over the place right now, from $2B to $3B+ depending on who you read. Until Binance confirms, treat it as large outflows, not a confirmed hack.
🚨 ECB chief Christine Lagarde steps down on Feb 7, 2027.
Her term was due to run until Oct 2027. No reason given.
Same Lagarde who called crypto "worth nothing" in 2022 while pushing the digital euro.
Her successor matters more than her exit.
Your bet? 👇
@BitcoinNews Plain English: the CFTC wants one federal rulebook for crypto exchanges instead of a patchwork. Still very early though, this is just the first call for public comments.