💰 TRX reaches a new level: TRON options are now available on Blockchain.com
Users can now not only buy TRX, but also trade options on its price—betting on whether it will rise or fall without acquiring the token itself.
💰 You can get started with just $5, and contracts last up to one week. Everything is available right in the Blockchain .com app for users in supported countries.
🏴☠️🇫🇷 French banking giant may have lost $133 million in cryptocurrency
On November 1, investigator ZachXBT spotted suspicious transfers from accounts at Kraken, Crypto.com, and OKX. Over three days, the suspected theft grew from $106 million to $133 million.
ZachXBT has now named the alleged victim: Crédit Mutuel Arkéa, a French banking group with around $235 billion in assets.
💰 The attackers exchanged some of the funds for ETH and Monero. According to ZachXBT, more than $30 million may have been laundered due to the lack of a timely warning.
⚠️ The bank has not confirmed a breach. The identity of the affected organization is based solely on the investigator’s findings.
💰 16 billion transactions! #TRON, are you ever going to stop?
🌍 If you divided this number by the entire population of Earth, it would amount to almost two transactions per person.
💰 TRON has surpassed the historic milestone of 16 billion transactions, strengthening its position in the crypto industry. The network is especially popular for stablecoin transfers.
🚀 And judging by its pace of growth, the next billion won’t be long in coming!
🇺🇸 The CFTC has approved the first perpetual futures contracts linked to individual stocks, paving the way for trading to begin on compliant exchanges regulated in the US under the joint oversight of the CFTC and SEC
👨👧👧On November 1, 7,934 new wallets were created on XRPL, the sixth-highest daily figure in 2026.
This surge followed a tense week for XRP and came right after the Binance hack, which may have prompted more users to move toward self-custody and create new wallets.
💰🥇 Tether has accumulated 150,000 bitcoins worth $11.5 billion
Company CEO Paolo Ardoino said that the issuer of the largest stablecoin, USDT, owns approximately 150,000 BTC.
💰 Tether continues to invest its profits in bitcoin. Since 2023, the company has followed a strategy of allocating up to 15% of its quarterly net profit to buying BTC.
😐 Lisk shut down its own blockchain after 10 years
On November 2, the project officially discontinued Lisk Chain. Lisk Portal and Bridge have already been shut down, while the network’s remaining components are being phased out.
💰 The company is completely changing its business focus: instead of developing the Lisk blockchain, it will focus on a financial platform for businesses with payments in fiat currencies and stablecoins.
The LSK token isn’t going away. It will continue to exist on Ethereum as a loyalty program token. The team also plans to burn around 5.23 million #LSK.
💰Coinbase increased its own reserves to 18,000 BTC
Brian Armstrong, head of the largest U.S. cryptocurrency exchange, said the company had acquired its 18,000th bitcoin.
💰 The reserves are valued at around $1.4 billion at current prices. Coinbase added 643 BTC in the third quarter alone, continuing to accumulate bitcoin on its own balance sheet.
🚨🇧🇷 Brazil’s largest crypto exchange, Mercado Bitcoin, has been hit by a hack!
On November 2, the exchange confirmed that one of its systems had been breached. According to Hypernative analysts’ preliminary estimate, the suspicious transfers exceed $40 million.
The funds moved across at least 10 blockchains, including Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, and TRON.
⚠️ Mercado Bitcoin said it had contained the attack, customer data was unaffected, and the exchange would cover any potential losses incurred by users.
Deposits and withdrawals have been temporarily suspended.
😱 Fear gripped the crypto market after the Binance hack
According to CryptoQuant, the Fear and Greed Index plunged to 30 points, entering the fear zone.
📉 How investor sentiment changed: • October 22 — 68 points (greed). • October 29 — 51 points (neutral). • After the Binance hack — 30 points (fear).
In just ten days, the index lost 38 points. Meanwhile, its average over the past 30 days stands at 56 points.
❗️The Binance hack, with preliminary losses estimated at $6.3 billion, intensified the panic, although investor sentiment had already begun to deteriorate before the incident.
The big question: has the market already reached peak fear, or is the sell-off only just gaining momentum?
🚨💰 Hackers breached the Solana Mobile app store and set a trap for crypto wallets
After gaining unauthorized access to the developer portal, attackers posted a fake app called SKR Claim on the Solana dApp Store. Disguised as a way to claim tokens, it asked users for their secret recovery phrases.
⚠️ The app was featured in the store’s promotional section for about an hour before the Solana Mobile team removed it and fixed the vulnerability.
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🚨 THORChain halted swaps after an Ethereum error put protocol funds at risk!
On October 31, a one-block Ethereum reorganization caused THORChain to mistakenly pay out 10 #ETH that it had never actually received.
The security system detected the shortfall and automatically halted ETH swaps. Node operators then paused operations on several other networks, including BTC, SOL, BNB Chain, and TRON.
💰 The good news: the user voluntarily returned the 10 ETH, restoring the vault balance. Developers are preparing fixes.
🤔 Meanwhile, swaps on XRPL, Avalanche, and Base continued.
🇷🇺😎 He flaunted his wealth on social media — and lost 10.4 BTC and 1 million rubles
According to Kommersant, a gang of extortionists targeted a 22-year-old programmer who had posted photos of Ferraris, BMWs, Mercedes cars, and trips abroad.
On September 6, the criminals kidnapped him, took him to a garage, and beat and tortured him for five hours, demanding the passwords to his crypto wallets.
💰 The attackers stole 10.396 BTC, 1 million rubles in cash, and some equipment. The total losses exceeded 84 million rubles. After the robbery, they left the programmer tied up in a forest.
The irony: according to the publication, an internet outage helped police catch the gang. The criminals switched from messaging apps to regular phone calls and were caught by law enforcement. All five suspects have been arrested and remanded in custody.
The moral: a crypto wallet may be more secure than a bank, but there’s no stopping a crowbar.
🇨🇳 China steps up its fight against corruption involving cryptocurrencies and blockchain
The Communist Party of China has called for a tougher crackdown on corruption schemes involving cryptocurrencies, blockchain, the internet, and cross-border financial transactions.
The measures were discussed at a plenary session of the CPC Central Committee, which concluded on October 29. Authorities also intend to investigate international corruption schemes more actively and recover assets transferred abroad illegally.
📊 The scale of the campaign is impressive: since 2012, China has opened 8.1 million anti-corruption cases, and nearly 7.9 million people have been punished. In 2025 alone, more than 500 cross-border corruption cases were investigated.
❗️This is about combating the illegal use of digital assets, not introducing a sweeping new ban on blockchain technologies.
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