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The Binance hack could accelerate a shift in crypto trading toward decentralized exchanges, benefiting Uniswap over the longer term, according to Standard Chartered’s global head of digital a
The world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, by means of both users and trading volume across the board, has been hacked. Not a System Compromise According to a recent announcement, the incid
Bitcoin slipped through $77,000 in the early hours of October 30 and kept sliding, settling near its lowest level in six weeks after the fallout from a record Binance hot-wallet hack forced t
Binance has put a number and a cause on the Binance hack: about $6.3 billion, traced to a single compromised laptop. In an official statement on X at 02:25 UTC on 30 October, the exchange sai
Ether.fi (ETHFI) is trading at $0.579707 as of October 30, 2026, a decline of 11.75% over the past 24 hours on reported volume of $0.06 billion. The drop follows a sustained pattern of exchan
Bitcoin slipped below the $77,000 mark on October 29, 2026, while BNB, the native token of the Binance exchange, also declined as reports of a security breach at Binance circulated across cry
Binance-related concerns have renewed debate about the relationship between negative headlines and cryptocurrency valuations. Celestia, Solana, Tezos, LayerZero, and Uniswap operate in differ
Suspected wallet breach and $3.3 billion in flagged transfers trigger broad crypto sell-off. Crypto markets turned sharply lower after reports surfaced of a suspected hack targeting Binance,
Nearly $1 billion in derivatives positions were liquidated over 24 hours as Bitcoin slid below $78,000 on Oct. 29, after a suspected attack drained crypto worth as much as $5.9 billion from B
It is 9 p.m. in New York, and I am watching what could become the worst hack crypto has ever seen. I choose those words carefully. Elon Musk had three words for it: "Everyday is Zeroday," pos
A simple on-chain signal was enough to turn the evening of October 29 upside down. At 10:32 pm, researcher Spreek detects an anomaly on Ethereum. Four minutes earlier, a contract had just emp
Memecoin influencer Mika posted the private key of her dev wallet on X on Wednesday evening, instead of the contract address of her new coin Free Mika (MIKA). The key went public at 17:40:09
