FBI accuses North Korean hackers of stealing $6 billion from Binance; exchange resumes withdrawals
Binance suffered a 'TraderTraitor' hacking attack, with $6 billion stolen. The exchange processed more than $4.6 billion in withdrawals, while deposits reached $1.01 billion. Technical analysis should focus on market movements after the exchange resumed withdrawals. #Binance #ExchangeSecurity
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The FBI says North Korean hackers stole over $6 billion from Binance. The exchange has resumed withdrawals, but roughly half of the stolen funds have yet to be recovered.
The FBI attributed the attack to a North Korean group called TraderTraitor. Since resuming operations, Binance has processed $4.65 billion in withdrawals and $1.01 billion in deposits. Elliptic says about $3.24 billion remains in linked addresses, while $2.85 billion has been frozen or seized. Some funds have already entered mixers.
Why it matters This is no longer just about one exchange. A state-sponsored hacking group has shown it can drain the hot wallet of the world’s largest exchange and start laundering the money within days. Resuming withdrawals was the easy part. Recovering the funds is a race against the mixers. Custody is just a promise—and this week, it was put to the test.
4 more stories worth a look: 🔹 Hong Kong tests round-the-clock settlement and stablecoins → Banks that close at 5 p.m. are starting to look like a bug. 🔹 Perpetual DEX security: Can users exit on their own? → If withdrawals still require someone’s approval, the money isn’t really in your hands. 🔹 MIT Technology Review: The agent internet is here → Soon, the next visitor to your website might not be human. 🔹 Ethereum projects are moving back to L1 → Taking the detour through rollups is getting more expensive.
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OpenAI cut its fundraising target to $20 billion, with investment commitments in hand totaling only about $11 billion.
More awkwardly, this target had already been revised downward.
According to PANews, the target for this round was cut by $10 billion, as the market began to care more about profitability than the story.
Why does this matter?
AI companies used to raise money by “telling a big enough story.” Now investors are starting to ask, “Are you making enough money?”
In the same week, ChatGPT announced that Plus, Pro, and Business will share a single token budget starting in December. The days of “ask whatever you want” are drawing to a close.
The days when a story could bring in money are getting shorter.
Four stories worth a look today:
🔹 The FBI blamed North Korea’s Lazarus Group for the theft of about $6.3 billion from Binance and is tracking the assets → Hackers’ opponents are no longer just security teams, but entire nations
🔹 Binance hackers laundered about $242 million through TRON in two days → No matter how fast you track it, the money is already on the move
🔹 EIP-7702 temporarily turns ordinary wallets into smart contracts and has been cited in analyses as the technical backdrop to the Binance incident → Upgrades add features for users—and new entry points for attackers
🔹 After Ethereum L1 scaling lowered gas fees, ENS and Synthetix moved their core contracts back to mainnet → Mainnet has taken the biggest selling point of Layer 2—“low cost”—for itself
If AI fundraising stories are getting harder to sell, who will be the first to buckle: model companies, or the users footing the bill?
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Binance was hacked for $6.3 billion. On the first day withdrawals reopened, $3.64 billion left.
Withdrawals were suspended for a few days, then gradually resumed on Sunday. On the first day, $4.65 billion was withdrawn and $1.01 billion deposited. Net outflows accounted for 2.1% of its $171 billion in assets—$2 withdrawn for every $100.
Honestly, that figure was lower than I expected. A hack on the scale of $6.3 billion would be catastrophic for any traditional financial institution. Binance saw outflows of just 2.1%. Its liquidity held up, and users didn’t flee.
CZ said: “98% of people chose to stay.” That 98% is just another way of presenting the same data above. It’s a clever bit of spin, to be sure, but the figure itself isn’t fabricated.
There’s also a difference in how the figures are calculated: DefiLlama puts the 24-hour outflow at $4.05 billion, while Binance says that includes funds it moved into its new hot wallet. The difference between the two figures depends on how you count.
The stress test is over—for now. But compensation is only the first step. Whether Binance can shore up security is what will really determine whether it can remain the industry leader.
💁💁Borrowing a line CZ used over the past couple of days: “Trust isn’t earned through words in good times; it’s earned through actions in adversity.”
The bank run appears to have subsided for now, but the warning bells left by this security crisis have not stopped ringing. For Binance, honoring its commitments through compensation is only the first step. The key to how far it can go from here is whether it seizes this opportunity to overhaul its internal controls and risk management framework.
After all, the market may give an industry leader one chance to patch things up, but it won’t give it a second chance to make the same mistake with the same vulnerability.
Over the past 24 hours, Binance quietly processed $4.65 billion in on-chain withdrawals. The system not only stayed online, but Gas fees didn’t even see any sharp, unusual spikes.
Many people panicked when sharing this figure, thinking that big money was running for the exits. But seasoned insiders who really understand how on-chain settlements work know that this was actually a liquidity stress test on a whole different level.
The last time the market faced this kind of single-day net withdrawal pressure was during the confidence crisis triggered by FTX’s collapse and the U.S. Department of Justice settlement.
But the underlying flow of funds behind this wave of withdrawals is completely different this time.
Tracking on-chain whale addresses shows that these $4.6 billion didn’t simply vanish. Instead, the funds followed three very clear paths:
The first was market makers rebalancing to hedge risk. Arbitrage between exchanges by market makers stalled following the earlier blowup, prompting major MMs such as Wintermute to quickly move liquidity back to cold wallets or decentralized lending protocols. This is a classic move to avoid risk exposure; they’ll return to the market once volatility subsides.
The second was institutional funds moving to compliant custody accounts. As yields on institutional-grade staking protocols in the Ethereum and Solana ecosystems have surged, large amounts of idle assets previously held on Binance’s CEX are being withdrawn in batches and moved into self-custody ecosystems to capture risk-free yield spreads.
The third was panic selling driven by retail FUD. But it accounted for less than 15% of total withdrawals.
The biggest mistake in trading is jumping to conclusions based on every little sign.
The fact that the exchange processed $4.6 billion in reserves smoothly, without delays or withdrawal restrictions, essentially validates its 1:1 reserve ratio and the resilience of its settlement layer. Compared with smaller platforms that tout high yields but could restrict withdrawals at any moment, the fact that funds can be withdrawn in large amounts at any time actually demonstrates the resilience of the entire underlying settlement architecture.
The uncertainty in the market ahead isn’t about how much more money will be withdrawn from Binance, but which sector this $4.6 billion in liquidity will flow into first to start compounding returns again once it settles on-chain.
Watching where large on-chain transfers land is far more valuable than blindly following the crowd and turning bearish.
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Binance hot wallet transfers out another 780 million USDC, with cumulative asset outflows reaching $3.3 billion
Binance’s hot wallet has continued transferring out large amounts of assets, moving another 780 million USDC today and bringing the cumulative total to more than $3.3 billion. Technical analysis shows weakening support at key levels, so the flow of assets from the hot wallet and the market’s reaction warrant close attention.
The hacker behind the Binance hack sold about $5 million worth of the small-cap token PROM into an almost-empty pool, getting just $71 in return.
Because on-chain pools like Uniswap price tokens based on the ratio of the two assets in the pool, and there was almost no ETH on the other side, dumping 908,000 PROM barely brought in any money.
The price gap didn't disappear—the PROM was immediately snapped up by arbitrage bots.
But overall, the hacker wasn't stupid. According to Lookonchain, he has sold more than 130 altcoins for about $279 million, almost all of it in ETH, because stablecoins can be frozen, while nobody can freeze ETH.
The lesson for us is this: market cap is just a quoted price. How much you can sell depends on how much money is there to buy.
Could you get back half of your altcoin's market cap if you dumped it all at once?
Stop letting yourself be swept up by the blind hype that “November is bound to surge.” Understanding what these historical figures actually show can help you avoid half the pitfalls.
Across the 16 Novembers from 2010 to today, BTC rose 10 times and fell 6 times, delivering an impressive average return of 34.59%. At first glance, the win rate is over 50% and the average is astonishing—but these figures hide a major outlier trap:
The median return is actually just 10.26%.
That 34.59% figure is almost entirely due to two extreme rallies that pulled the average sharply higher: 2013 (when BTC surged more than 450% in a single month) and 2020 (the bull market’s main rally). Once you exclude years with extreme bull runs, November usually falls into one of two camps: either a moderate continuation of gains or a slow, grinding pullback.
The data doesn’t lie. Just two key factors shape November’s price action:
The quarterly liquidity “handoff effect” If October has already delivered a major shakeout or breakout, November is likely to follow the trend and accelerate. But if October has exhausted buying demand, November often brings institutional profit-taking and hedging ahead of year-end.
The fourth-quarter pattern in halving cycles In years following a halving, November is often a pivotal point in the middle of a bull market rally. But in non-halving years or bear markets (like November 2018, when BTC plunged 37%), November can instead be one of the months with the sharpest pullbacks.
Take a look at your current position and cost basis: are you betting on the median return of around 10% continuing, or counting on one of those rare explosive rallies?
Share your take in the comments: will you finish this November in the green or in the red?
What the hell, Hornets, what kind of game are you playing? My points! I thought you had it in the bag, then you play like this in the last few minutes 😑🌶︎🐔#币安神算子
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Bitcoin Price Holds Steady After Hack: A Market Analysis
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North Korea's hackers now use AI as a phishing factory.
Microsoft says they're producing dozens of fake lure files in minutes.
A new Microsoft Threat Intelligence report says North Korean hacking groups are using AI to mass-produce phishing documents and to generate malicious code.
Why it matters Phishing used to be limited by human time. Someone had to write each lure, one at a time. When AI can turn out dozens in minutes, the attacker's cost drops to almost zero while your inbox gets noisier. After this week's Binance hack, that is not an abstract risk.
The scam email used to take a day. Now it takes a prompt.
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Binance says it has covered about 80% of the stolen assets → The safest exchange is the one that can afford its own mistakes.
When the lure is written by AI, what's your best defense: better tools or better habits?
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AI chose one of 19 gene therapies on its own and performed brain surgery on a mouse. But halfway through the procedure, it refused to continue because of a calibration error. No amount of persuasion could change its mind.
The model was called Claude Sonnet 5, and it had just one goal: reduce seizures in mice with epilepsy. It chose the drug, the brain region, and the injection coordinates on its own, and made 32 observations during the surgery. Researchers say this is the first time an AI has both selected a treatment plan and carried it out on a living mammal.
Why does this matter?
Until now, surgical robots have always followed plans made by humans. Now the decision-making has been handed to AI—and it can say “no” at a critical moment. Even more interesting: the more capable Opus 5.5 and Opus 5 refused to operate, while only Sonnet 5 was willing to see it through. It turned out the model was right: a manual adjustment earlier had thrown off the control system.
The most dangerous moment for AI may not be when it goes rogue, but when it’s right and refuses to listen to you.
Four more stories worth a look today: 🔹 Privacy-focused blockchain Iron Fish announces it will end support and shut down its codebase due to an inflation bug → What privacy coins should fear most isn’t regulation—it’s money appearing in the ledger that no one can see. 🔹 Binance recovers around 80% of stolen funds and plans to gradually resume withdrawals → The money is back. Whether user trust comes back too depends on how smoothly withdrawals go this time. 🔹 TechCrunch: AI investment boom shows cracks as negative cash flow and rising debt fuel concerns → Big tech companies dare to burn cash because they’re all afraid of being the one who didn’t buy a ticket. 🔹 Google’s space data center prototype satellite completes its first in-orbit AI inference → When there’s not enough computing power, the next place to look is the sky.
If the AI on the operating table said, “I’m stopping,” would you have the doctor hit the emergency stop—or trust it for once?
Every day, we take one story worth your time and unpack it. Follow Dongye, and see you tomorrow.
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Illinois previously proposed a digital asset transaction tax, planning to take a 0.2% cut of on-chain transactions. It even dared to include the outrageous requirement to record private keys in the bill.
Fortunately, industry heavyweights didn’t let it slide this time. Uniswap Labs, a16z, and the DeFi Education Fund joined forces and submitted a hard-hitting comment letter: DeFi protocols, front ends, self-custody withdrawals, wallet transfers, and cross-chain bridges must all be excluded from the tax.
The state has now backed down, announcing a delay until July 2027.
But this shows one thing: the battle over compliance has moved out into the open. If local tax laws like this are allowed to gain a foothold, every on-chain interaction could become a compliance nightmare.
Keep an eye on what happens next. This isn’t just about taxes—it’s a battle over the boundaries of on-chain sovereignty.
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