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Bitcoin has shown relative resilience despite a major Binance hack and a sell-off in technology stocks, Seamus Rocca, CEO of Gibraltar-based fintech firm Xapo Bank, said, according to Crypto Briefing. Rocca said Bitcoin has historically shown a high correlation with the Nasdaq, but recently held key support levels despite a $6.3 billion hack and weakness in tech stocks, suggesting it may be starting to trade differently from traditional risk assets. Rocca added that the move does not prove Bitcoin’s role as an inflation hedge.

Major exchanges have seen $103 million worth of futures liquidated in the past hour. In the past 24 hours, $314 million worth of futures have been liquidated.

Elastos (ELA), a layer-1 blockchain focused on the decentralized internet, has unveiled ElastOS V2, rebuilt from the ground up for the Elastos World Computer. The new Rust runtime integrates identity, local AI, storage, communication and blockchain access into a single system, with users designed to control permissions directly.

According to CoinNess market monitoring, BTC has fallen below $77,000. BTC is trading at $76,986.82 on the Binance USDT market.

Gravity said it completed settlement of the fast withdrawal bridge for G tokens operated on the Alpha mainnet and shut down the service. The bridge supported rapid transfers of G tokens to other networks. During its operation, around 897.31 million G tokens were deposited and the same amount was withdrawn, while token issuance and burn volumes were also confirmed to be identical. Gravity said there were no unsettled withdrawal requests or unpaid principal remaining.

The supply of stock tokens issued on blockchains has reached a record $3.8 billion, up 590% this year, according to Solid Intel. Separately, decentralized exchange Jupiter said 70% of tokenized asset trading is taking place outside regular stock market hours.

Tether said it froze more than $1.5 billion in funds tied to the Binance hack. The USDT issuer said the move was intended to prevent North Korean actors identified as being behind the hack from accessing or moving the funds.

Binance founder Changpeng Zhao, also known as CZ, said Binance covered losses from a recent hack worth more than $6 billion using only funds on its own balance sheet. Zhao said Binance did not borrow funds, sell holdings, or raise capital externally, adding that while some people keep comparing the incident with other cases, there is a clear difference.

Decentralized trading infrastructure protocol 0x (ZRX) said Lightning is now available to all integrated developers, adding that swap speeds on EVM chains are now more than twice as fast as before.

Solana treasury company DeFi Development bought an additional 5,336 SOL, bringing its total holdings to 2.6 million SOL, according to BitcoinTreasuries. CEO Joseph Onorati said tokenization will be a long-term growth driver for SOL and the company is buying SOL accordingly.

Brazilian cryptocurrency exchange Mercado Bitcoin said it plans to absorb about $40 million in losses from a recent hack and expects customers will not suffer any losses. The exchange said the attack targeted a hot wallet and was quickly contained. Mercado Bitcoin is investigating the incident, tracking the stolen assets and cooperating with relevant authorities.

Binance expanded incentives for market makers to boost trading activity on the platform after suffering losses from a $6.3 billion hack, Bloomberg reported, citing industry sources. According to the report, Binance proposed raising rebate rates for smaller trading firms in its spot and futures markets shortly after the hack last week. The exchange mainly classifies market makers into several tiers based on the amount of liquidity they provide, with firms holding a larger share of trading volume placed in higher tiers and generally receiving higher rebates to reduce trading costs. During a one-week promotional period, Binance applied the same rebate rate given to its top tier, Level four, to so-called Tier two and Tier three market makers, Bloomberg reported.

Onchain Lens said it tracked a total of $46.5 million worth of cryptocurrencies across 46 addresses believed to be linked to the hack of Brazilian cryptocurrency exchange Mercado Bitcoin. The addresses were found to hold 3,680 ETH, 106 BTC and around $8 million worth of stablecoins. Mercado Bitcoin had earlier acknowledged the security incident, while saying customer funds and data were not affected.

Whale Alert reported that 3,000 BTC has been transferred from Binance to an unknown wallet. The transaction is valued at about $233 million.

NYSE is partnering with Broadridge Financial Solutions to add blockchain-based shareholder voting to its planned tokenized securities trading platform, CoinDesk reported. Broadridge is set to provide services including shareholder registry management, ownership verification and voting for stock tokens. Investors would be able to vote on shareholder meeting agenda items through digital wallets or brokerage platforms. NYSE is building the platform to support blockchain-based stock trading while preserving existing shareholder rights, and it is also pursuing 24-hour trading.

Ethereum layer-two network Lisk said it has officially ended operations of the legacy Lisk chain. The Lisk portal and bridge have been closed, and the remaining network components will be shut down in phases. Lisk plans to shift its business toward an enterprise financial platform supporting both fiat currencies and stablecoins. The existing LSK token will continue to be used as Lisk’s loyalty token on the Ethereum network, and Lisk also plans to burn about 5.23 million unallocated LSK remaining in its staking rewards pool to reduce total supply.

Whale Alert reported that 240,000,005 USDT has been transferred from Binance to an unknown wallet. The transaction is valued at about $240 million.

Bitcoin layer-two project Stacks said it plans to launch Bond 3 between Nov. 2 and Nov. 8, allowing deposits of up to 1,005 BTC. That is above the combined deposit cap of 735 BTC for its existing Genesis Bond and Bond 2. Bond 3 is a product that generates yield by staking BTC and STX together, with a target yield of 3% and rewards paid weekly in BTC. Stacks said the list of participants will be disclosed later this week.

Decentralized lending protocol Teller has launched On-Demand Lending, or ODL, an AI-powered token-backed lending service that supports more than 10 blockchains. Teller said the service uses AI to analyze a token’s liquidity, trading volume, price and smart contracts to determine loan eligibility and terms. Tokens that pass the review can be registered as collateral, allowing users to open lending pools or borrow stablecoins without selling their tokens. Teller said the service does not require margin calls during the loan period, but collateral may be auctioned off if repayment is not completed by maturity.

Whale Alert reported that 2,000 million USDT has been burned at the Tether Treasury.

Japan’s financial group SBI Holdings plans to invest $100 million in U.S. digital bank Erebor Bank to support the adoption of blockchain payments, Crypto Briefing reported. The move is aimed at researching blockchain-based payments and stablecoin functions within the regulated banking system, according to the report. Erebor received a national bank charter from the U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and obtained Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. coverage in February this year.

Whale Alert reported that 2,920 BTC has been transferred from Coinbase Institutional to an unknown new wallet. The transaction is valued at about $227 million.

Whale Alert reported that 200,000,000 USDC has been transferred from Binance to an unknown wallet. The transaction is valued at about $200 million.

Securitize has added tokenized U.S. stock products tied to 13 companies, including ExxonMobil, GameStop, Salesforce, and Disney, bringing its total number of supported U.S. stock tokens to 25, The Block reported. The tokens trade on the Solana network and are backed one-to-one by the underlying shares.

HSBC’s Hong Kong dollar-pegged stablecoin Redcoin has surpassed 50,000 users about a week after launch, the South China Morning Post reported, citing comments by HSBC Group CEO Georges Elhedery at Hong Kong FinTech Week. Elhedery set a goal of expanding the user base to the millions. Redcoin is currently available through HSBC’s payment app PayMe and supports payments at about 100,000 merchants in Hong Kong as well as person-to-person transfers. HSBC also plans to make Redcoin available through its banking app and pursue links with tokenized investment products.