Cisco hands a 27-year-old engineer the keys to a sweeping code rewrite
Cisco's AI-driven code overhaul could redefine software development, emphasizing efficiency and strategic innovation over routine tasks. The post Cisco hands a 27-year-old engineer the keys to a sweeping code rewrite appeared first on Crypto Briefing.
By Diego Almada Lopez 10/30/2026, 7:19:54 AM
ETH Price Prediction: Bollinger Band Pinch and Surging Open Interest Put ETH at a Fork in the Road
Ethereum slid 2.55% to $2,254.37 as of October 30, pressing virtually to the floor of its daily Bollinger Band while open interest on Binance futures expanded 6.16% over the same 24-hour window — a... (Read More)
By N/A 10/30/2026, 7:16:43 AM
Winklevoss twins call for Zcash grants committee to be scrapped
Gemini founders Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss have called for Zcash to scrap its community grants committee and give ZEC holders more control over funding decisions, as disagreements over the program’s $125 million treasury continue to grow. In an October 30…
By Rony Roy 10/30/2026, 7:13:59 AM
Bitcoin Briefly Dips Below US$77K as Suspected Binance Hack Rattles Markets
Bitcoin plunged 6.55% amid reports of a massive Binance hack, rattling crypto markets despite continued ETF inflows and warnings of further downside risks. The post Bitcoin Briefly Dips Below US$77K as Suspected Binance Hack Rattles Markets appeared first on Crypto News Australia.
By Aaron Feuerstein 10/30/2026, 7:13:27 AM
BTC Price Prediction: Clinging to Lower Bollinger Band as Open Interest Climbs 5%
Bitcoin fell 1.68% to $78,638.94 on Binance spot on October 30, 2026, settling within $100 of its lower Bollinger Band while 24-hour open interest expanded 5.38% — a combination of price weakness a... (Read More)
By N/A 10/30/2026, 7:09:50 AM
ASIC chair raises concerns over prediction markets for retail clients
ASIC's stance on prediction markets highlights regulatory challenges and potential risks for retail investors, emphasizing consumer protection. The post ASIC chair raises concerns over prediction markets for retail clients appeared first on Crypto Briefing.
By Estefano Gomez 10/30/2026, 7:06:11 AM
Hyperliquid Surges 17% After NYSE Owner ICE Strikes Deal for Regulated US Perpetuals
Hyperliquid's HYPE token jumped more than 15% in a day after NYSE owner ICE agreed to run Trade[XYZ]'s perpetual futures markets for US retail traders, a plan that still needs CFTC approval. The post Hyperliquid Surges 17% After NYSE Owner ICE Strikes Deal for Regulated US Perpetuals appeared first on Crypto News Australia.
By Jos Oramas 10/30/2026, 7:05:44 AM
$7,500 Abruptly Drained From a Florida Couple’s Wells Fargo Account After Criminals Impersonating Her Bank Call Her
Scammers posing as Wells Fargo's fraud department took more than $7,500 from an Orlando, Florida couple after getting them to read back text verification codes, with the money moved out through Cash App. The post $7,500 Abruptly Drained From a Florida Couple’s Wells Fargo Account After Criminals Impersonating Her Bank Call Her appeared first on...
By Daily Hodl Agent 10/30/2026, 7:04:01 AM
Binance Hack Pinned on North Korea’s Lazarus Group by TRM Labs and ZachXBT
Several blockchain investigators say North Korea’s Tradertraitor (a sub-unit of the larger Lazarus/DPRK ecosystem) likely carried out the roughly $6.3 billion Binance hack, the largest crypto theft on record to date. Investigators Point to Pyongyang The hunt for the Binance attacker has a prime suspect now, with blockchain analytics firm TRM Labs...
By Shiraz Jagati 10/30/2026, 7:01:57 AM
Bitcoin Slips Below $80,000 After Fed Holds Rates and Tech Shares Weaken
Bitcoin slipped below $80,000 in early October 29 trading as markets digested the Federal Reserve’s decision to leave rates unchanged and the accompanying.
By NewsBTC Editorial Team 10/30/2026, 7:00:00 AM
Polymarket Resumes Trading After Hackers Drain Millions From User Accounts
Polymarket briefly halted trading after a third-party security breach, pledging to reimburse affected users as reports of unauthorised trades emerged. The post Polymarket Resumes Trading After Hackers Drain Millions From User Accounts appeared first on Crypto News Australia.
By Aaron Feuerstein 10/30/2026, 6:57:34 AM
Polymarket Resumes Trading After Third-Party Breach Drains User Funds
Polymarket briefly halted trading after a third-party security breach, pledging to reimburse affected users as reports of unauthorised trades emerged. The post Polymarket Resumes Trading After Third-Party Breach Drains User Funds appeared first on Crypto News Australia.
By Aaron Feuerstein 10/30/2026, 6:57:34 AM
BREAKING: Lazarus Group suspected in $6.3 billion Binance hack
Investigators suspect North Korea's Lazarus Group in the $6.3 billion Binance hack as Blockaid traces the wallet breach and issuers freeze stolen assets.
By Olivia Stephanie 10/30/2026, 6:47:53 AM
Tesla-SpaceX merger speculation grows despite robotaxi hurdles
Speculation on a Tesla-SpaceX merger highlights the need for Tesla's robotaxi success to gain shareholder support and influence market sentiment. The post Tesla-SpaceX merger speculation grows despite robotaxi hurdles appeared first on Crypto Briefing.
By Estefano Gomez 10/30/2026, 6:34:13 AM
Central banks map their role in a payments system shared with stablecoins
The October 29 official summaries connect settlement access, infrastructure, oversight and coordination while keeping potential benefits and risks conditional. Read the full story on CryptoSlate Understand the crypto stories that matter and what to watch next. Get The Catalyst in your inbox
By Liam 'Akiba' Wright 10/30/2026, 6:30:55 AM
Matthew McConaughey Spent a Weekend Alone in the Desert Reading 20 Years of His Worst Reviews
Matthew McConaughey, whom Fortune estimates is worth about $200 million, said he once took a “thick book” of 20 years of negative acting reviews into the West Texas desert and spent two days reading them. Speaking on the October 13, 2026 episode of Daniel Lubetzky’s Build or Break podcast, he said some critics were right, […]
By Guest Author 10/30/2026, 6:30:27 AM
Bitcoin, ether and XRP selloff wipes out $1.5 billion in leveraged crypto bets
Bets on rising prices accounted for nearly 84% of forced closures, with Binance handling almost half the total. A rebound has since started catching short sellers.
By Shaurya Malwa 10/30/2026, 6:22:00 AM
Peptide Shop Expands U.S.-Manufactured Catalog and Quality Verification Protocols to Address Laboratory Supply Chain Bottlenecks
The domestic supplier strengthens partnerships with ISO-certified and WHO/GMP-compliant facilities to provide independent researchers with...
By Globe PR Wire 10/30/2026, 6:15:12 AM
Pi Network Price Forecast: PI updates underpins tentative bullish reversal signal
Pi Network (PI) shows early signs of recovery on Friday, testing an overhead long-term resistance trendline near $0.0794 following the announcement of new updates. Pi Network has introduced several technical updates to expand its ecosystem utility.
By N/A 10/30/2026, 6:07:46 AM
Here’s what happened in crypto today
Need to know what happened in crypto today? Here is the latest news on daily trends and events impacting Bitcoin price, blockchain, DeFi, Web3 and crypto regulation.
By Felix Ng 10/30/2026, 6:00:00 AM
Ethereum Client Updates Address Certificate Risk in Teku and Besu
Ethereum software teams have published updates addressing trust-store exposure tied to compromised certificate-authority keys from eMudhra. For ETH.
By NewsBTC Editorial Team 10/30/2026, 6:00:00 AM
Flare Joins XRPL Validator List as Anodos Finance Exits
Flare’s inclusion comes as it expands its DeFi services for XRP holders.
By Mandy Williams 10/30/2026, 5:58:12 AM
Strategy eyes more Bitcoin buys as Saylor touts $30B credit capacity
Michael Saylor says Strategy could create up to $30 billion in digital credit without new common-stock fundraising or further Bitcoin price gains, as the company plans more BTC purchases.
By Ezra Reguerra 10/30/2026, 5:53:07 AM
Elon Musk warns AI agents could exploit crypto after Binance hack
Elon Musk has warned that superintelligent AI agents could eventually exploit cryptocurrency systems to obtain money for themselves, following reports that the Binance hacker used stolen stablecoins to borrow millions of dollars in Ethereum. In an October 29 response on…
By Rony Roy 10/30/2026, 5:52:48 AM
North Korea’s TraderTraitor linked to $6.3B Binance hack
TRM Labs says it has high confidence in the attribution, while ZachXBT identified stolen funds from the Binance and Bitget hacks converging at the same address.
By Felix Ng 10/30/2026, 5:51:41 AM
XRP Ledger developers tighten the rules for who can hold 'restricted' tokens
A set of fixes would tighten who can hold permissioned tokens on the network. The XRP Ledger Foundation says no users were affected.
By Shaurya Malwa 10/30/2026, 5:45:27 AM
Binance hack bites India's largest crypto exchange as it curbs futures trading
CoinDCX has restricted new futures positions after Binance’s security incident disrupted a key liquidity provider. Deposits, withdrawals and customer funds remain unaffected, the exchange said.
By Omkar Godbole 10/30/2026, 5:43:07 AM
Binance hack began with a $296 million XRP drain after 36-hour preparation
The Binance attacker spent at least 36 hours preparing for the $6.36 billion crypto exchange hack that began with $296 million in XRP. According to an Oct. 29 investigation by TRM Labs, the attacker began preparing the operation on Oct. 28 before executing coordinated transfers across 10 blockchains the following evening. The blockchain...
By Oluwapelumi Adejumo 10/30/2026, 5:40:52 AM
Securitize Defends Tokenization Against Critics With Full-Page WSJ Ad
The tokenization-focused company published a full-page ad in The Wall Street Journal highlighting the benefits of this process for public companies. The ad counters a previous full-page anti-tokenization ad that called on CEOs to reject the digitization of their shares. Securitize Highlights Benefits of Tokenization In WSJ Ad Wall Street’s crypto...
By Sergio Goschenko 10/30/2026, 5:30:55 AM
Kraken restores trading after one-hour outage affects spot and derivatives
Kraken resolved a one-hour trading outage on October 30 after spot and derivatives users reported problems with orders, website access and API connections.
By Olivia Stephanie 10/30/2026, 5:28:29 AM
Binance Hack Update: Ripple Freezes $200 Million As Recovery Hits $3 Billion Amid North Korea Link
The recovery effort after the $6.3 billion Binance exploit is picking up pace. Ripple has frozen about $200 million connected to the attack, according to Binance co-founder Yi He. Binance says about $3 billion of the stolen funds has now been frozen in total. A new on-chain finding has also raised the stakes. Blockchain investigator …
By Anjali Belgaumkar 10/30/2026, 5:27:00 AM
Binance Hacked, Estimated $6.3 Billion in Crypto Drained
Binance has confirmed a security breach on its crypto exchange and estimated the total impact of a security incident at around $6.3 billion. It said an initial investigation points to a compromised DevOps engineer’s laptop. According to the exchange, the laptop gave an attacker access to a service container, which was used to submit unauthorised...
By Arnab Shome 10/30/2026, 5:11:50 AM
Binance Reveals When It Will Resume Withdrawals After Historic Hack
Binance expects to resume withdrawals within the next 48 hours following a massive $6.3 billion hack, which investigators have linked to North Korean hackers.
By Alex Dovbnya 10/30/2026, 5:08:44 AM
Circle starts cutting legacy USDC app transfer limits on October 31
Legacy USDC integrations face shrinking capacity ahead of Dec. 1, while Circle plans to keep pending redemptions available during the wind-down. Read the full story on CryptoSlate Understand the crypto stories that matter and what to watch next. Get The Catalyst in your inbox
By Liam 'Akiba' Wright 10/30/2026, 5:00:43 AM
Mirae Asset Issues Tokenized Dollar Notes on Solana for Professional Investors
Mirae Asset Securities’ Hong Kong unit announced the completion of a tokenized funding-note issuance on Solana for eligible institutional investors. For.
By NewsBTC Editorial Team 10/30/2026, 5:00:00 AM
Binance hack: How one wallet trick led to a $6.3 billion breach
Binance hack investigation finds one of 50 Ethereum authorizations enabled a hot wallet breach, as the exchange reports $6.3 billion affected and $3 billion frozen.
By Olivia Stephanie 10/30/2026, 4:57:07 AM
Binance hacker splits $1.4 billion of bitcoin into 19 wallets that no one can freeze
All 18,270 coins sit in 19 wallets, 17 of them holding exactly 1,000 BTC each, and none has moved since Thursday night, a CoinDesk trace of the blockchain shows.
By Shaurya Malwa 10/30/2026, 4:50:42 AM
Bitcoin Crashes to $76K, $1.5B Liquidated After Crypto’s Biggest Hack
Over 230,000 traders have been wrecked in the past 24 hours.
By Jordan Lyanchev 10/30/2026, 4:38:54 AM
Binance Hack News Today: Tether And Circle Freeze Stolen Funds As Losses Hit $5.7 Billion
Binance has confirmed a major security breach after attackers sent unauthorised withdrawals worth roughly $5.7 billion across the Bitcoin, Ethereum and TRON networks. The exchange said early findings point to a hacked laptop belonging to a DevOps engineer, which gave the attacker access to a service container used to submit withdrawals. Binance...
By Anjali Belgaumkar 10/30/2026, 4:36:18 AM
Jensen Huang says the US is not in the top 3 for manufacturing and tech
Huang's remarks highlight the need for the US to reassess its manufacturing strategies to remain competitive in the global tech landscape. The post Jensen Huang says the US is not in the top 3 for manufacturing and tech appeared first on Crypto Briefing.
By Diego Almada Lopez 10/30/2026, 4:35:03 AM
Binance says compromised DevOps engineer’s laptop may have enabled $6.3B security incident
This incident underscores the critical need for robust cybersecurity measures and highlights the potential vulnerabilities in digital asset exchanges. The post Binance says compromised DevOps engineer’s laptop may have enabled $6.3B security incident appeared first on Crypto Briefing.
By John Chen 10/30/2026, 4:33:35 AM
London Metal Exchange Tokenizes Reserves to Unlock New Financing
According to reports, the institution’s tokenization push involves putting its off-the-books metal reserves, held in warehouses, to work by using them as digital assets to finance its business. The move could position Hong Kong as a next-generation commodities hub. London Metal Exchange Turns To Tokenization To Put Off-Warrant Metal To Work The...
By Sergio Goschenko 10/30/2026, 4:30:26 AM
Top 3 Price Predictions: Bitcoin, Ethereum, Ripple – BTC corrects to test key 200-day EMA, ETH and XRP extend deeper losses
Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH) and Ripple (XRP) are pointing to a fourth consecutive week of losses since early October, down over 2.5%, 4% and 5% so far this week.
By N/A 10/30/2026, 4:19:00 AM
Bitcoin Price Briefly Slides to $76,300 as Binance Confirms Hack Estimated at $6.3 Billion
Bitcoin Magazine Bitcoin Price Briefly Slides to $76,300 as Binance Confirms Hack Estimated at $6.3 Billion Binance says the attacker reportedly gained access through a compromised employee laptop, and about $3 billion has been frozen onchain. This post Bitcoin Price Briefly Slides to $76,300 as Binance Confirms Hack Estimated at $6.3 Billion...
By Micah Zimmerman 10/30/2026, 4:05:40 AM
$6 billion Binance hack sends bitcoin, ether tumbling; Standard Chartered expects more pain
Bitcoin and ether slid after a suspected $6.3 billion Binance security breach and a Polymarket exploit. Standard Chartered says crypto prices may remain under pressure before finding a base.
By Omkar Godbole 10/30/2026, 4:00:43 AM
Kamino Opens Solana Lending Market for Backpack Tokenized Equity Collateral
Kamino has launched a dedicated Backpack Market on Solana allowing eligible users to post selected Backpack Securities tokenized equities as collateral for.
By NewsBTC Editorial Team 10/30/2026, 4:00:00 AM
Saudi-led coalition: drone launched by Yemen’s Houthis over Mecca destroyed
The incident may escalate regional tensions, affecting market stability and prompting potential diplomatic interventions or military escalations. The post Saudi-led coalition: drone launched by Yemen’s Houthis over Mecca destroyed appeared first on Crypto Briefing.
By Estefano Gomez 10/30/2026, 3:59:44 AM
Saudi-led coalition intercepts Houthi drone over Mecca
The interception highlights escalating regional tensions and may prompt increased military engagements, affecting geopolitical stability. The post Saudi-led coalition intercepts Houthi drone over Mecca appeared first on Crypto Briefing.
By Estefano Gomez 10/30/2026, 3:59:28 AM
Institutional crypto investors rush to pull funds from exchanges after Binance hack
The withdrawals suggest the fallout from the multibillion-dollar breach is spreading beyond Binance.
By Will Canny 10/30/2026, 3:56:40 AM
Crypto liquidations surpass $1.50 billion as Binance freezes $3 billion after hack
The broader cryptocurrency market is trading in the red on Friday, following news that the Binance wallets were hacked, resulting in the potential theft of $1.45 billion in Bitcoin (BTC) and $875 million in Ethereum (ETH), which could become the biggest crypto hack in history.
By N/A 10/30/2026, 3:53:03 AM