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The Canton Foundation has added Taiwan Depository & Clearing Corporation (TDCC) as a foundation member, according to privacy blockchain for institutional finance Canton (CC). The foundation also announced a memorandum of understanding with the Institute for Information Industry and a partnership with DAFCMAT.

DefiLlama said a total of 322 officially confirmed hacking and exploit incidents have been recorded across the crypto ecosystem from January 2026 through now, already far more than double the full-year total for 2025 with two months still left in the year.

Ronin, an Ethereum sidechain for P2E games, said Ronin Waypoint will shut down at 3:00 p.m. UTC on Oct. 31. After logging in, users can check labels in their wallet list to see whether any assets need to be moved. Wallets marked "Keyless" are Ronin Waypoint wallets, and users should check whether any remaining assets need to be transferred before the shutdown. Wallets marked "Ronin Wallet" are seed phrase-based wallets, and assets in those wallets do not need to be moved.

Scroll disclosed the contents of its October DAO monthly meeting, including discussions on a potential shift to a permissioned network and the migration of SCR and USX to the Ethereum mainnet. The project plans to release detailed proposals later, and any transition plan will be subject to DAO governance review. Scroll is also preparing a website to help users check their holdings and positions and safely migrate or withdraw assets during the transition.

A $6.3 billion hack at Binance may temporarily delay altcoin sales by cryptocurrency project teams, venture capital firms and related wallets, according to ZeroHedge. ZeroHedge said project teams, VCs, insiders and affiliated wallets could become more cautious about selling their token holdings to avoid adding further selling pressure to the market. With uncertainty rising across the market after the hack, concerns that large-scale token sales could deepen the shock may affect the timing of those sales, it added.

BNB Chain said a security incident being handled by Binance and related teams has not affected BNB Smart Chain, opBNB, BNB Greenfield or the BNB Chain bridge. All of those services are operating normally, and funds on BNB Chain are safe, it said.

According to a post shared by Zcash, 61.3% of observed Zcash mainnet nodes are signaling support for NU7. The post urged Zcash node operators to check the version they are running.

Stablecoin issuer Tether has formed a strategic partnership with global exchange CoinW and officially launched the 'Tether’s Ark' initiative. The project centers on XAUT, or Tether Gold, Tether’s real-world asset token pegged one-to-one to physical gold. Amid rising volatility in the digital asset market following major security breaches and broader macroeconomic uncertainty, the two companies plan to offer users an onchain hedging tool with safe-haven characteristics and expand access to gold-based financial products.

Dragonfly Managing Partner Haseeb Qureshi said market reaction to Binance’s $6 billion breach showed a fundamentally different level of maturity from the response to FTX’s collapse. He pointed to the fact that the losses were only 25% smaller than FTX’s funding shortfall, which previously helped push the market into disarray, yet major assets including Bitcoin posted only single-digit declines and held up relatively well on the downside. Amid broader macroeconomic tightening pressure, large-scale capital outflows remained limited, while dip buying and the rebound resilience of directly affected tokens also stood out, Qureshi said. He added the market was showing firm confidence in Binance’s financial soundness and ability to cover losses, and said close coordination among industry partners and Binance’s pledge to repurchase tokens on a one-to-one basis helped contain fear early. Qureshi said the industry’s ability to absorb and cushion a single negative shock that in the past might have led to systemic collapse marked a watershed in the digital asset ecosystem’s development.

Seven brokerages, including Jefferies, Mizuho, Barclays and Wells Fargo, lowered their price targets on Coinbase (COIN), according to Walter Bloomberg. - Jefferies: $183 to $174 - Mizuho: $145, with the previous target not disclosed - Barclays: $149 to $120 - Wells Fargo: $200 to $174 - Canaccord: $300 to $275 - Needham: $205 to $197 - Compass Point: $187 to $165

Binance founder Changpeng Zhao said on X that, aside from the coin recovery effort already underway, Binance naturally accumulates all listed tokens because users pay trading fees in the coins they trade. Zhao added, "SAFU!," indicating user funds are safe.

Bitcoin network mining difficulty rose 5.54%, pushing mining profitability to its lowest level since August, CryptoSlate reported. The network’s 14-day average hash rate fell 23% from its October 2025 peak through February 2026, then rebounded about 21% over the following 102 days to recover to within 6% of its all-time high. Higher mining power raises the cost of attacking the Bitcoin network, strengthening security.

Large institutions and professional traders rushed to buy put options as short-term downside hedges immediately after Binance’s $6.3 billion on-chain breach, according to a CoinDesk analysis. Derivatives liquidity network Paradigm said a block trade for 250 BTC put option contracts with a $78,000 strike, worth about $20 million, was executed just 15 minutes after the first wallet outflow from Binance and before any official announcement. Three minutes later, the same contract traded again at a 35% higher premium, indicating concentrated demand for downside insurance. Over the eight hours following the incident, BTC options block-trade volume on Paradigm reached $590 million, about half of the volume on Deribit, the world’s largest options exchange. Experts focused on the fact that the buying was concentrated in puts with strikes between $74,000 and $78,000, just below the spot price of around $80,000, with expiries in late October and mid-November. CoinDesk said this suggested practical "Conviction hedging" against a short-term correction rather than positioning for an extreme crash.

Zcash said it plans to implement the NU7 network upgrade on Nov. 6. The upgrade is set to reduce block generation time to 25 seconds from 75 seconds and more than double shielded transaction throughput. Zcash also urged wallet updates. Vizor said it has completed preparations for NU7 support and users should use the latest version.

Binance founder Changpeng Zhao said on X that traditional finance, or "TradFi," fell much more sharply than crypto today, while Bitcoin’s resilience was striking. Zhao said traditional market sell-offs often spill into crypto as investors sell assets to raise cash, but BTC’s ability to hold up was remarkable.

A cutting-edge AI security audit of the Bitcoin protocol found only a small number of vulnerabilities, according to Trustnodes. Coinbase Chief Security Officer Jeff Lunglhofer said AI models identified two minor issues, while a separate research team at Block, led by Jack Dorsey, used AI to find one medium-severity vulnerability. The vulnerability reportedly works only on non-Linux platforms and involves a malicious peer sending TCP urgent out-of-band data to exhaust a node’s memory. The other two issues involved higher memory usage caused by a peer queue while a node is paused and a rare problem during blockchain reorganization, or reorg, according to the report. The audit used multiple AI models, including Kimi K3, Mythos 5.1, OpenAI’s Daybreak Red and Cyber Unlocked Fable. All findings were cross-validated using different models, and candidate vulnerabilities were further tested by linking attack scenarios, developing exploits and verifying them.

U.S. President Donald Trump said the war with Iran will end soon, "one way or another."

HTX DeepThink columnist and HTX Research analyst Chloe said short-term risk appetite in the crypto market has weakened as concerns over macroeconomic tightening coincided with the Binance hack. Chloe added political uncertainty ahead of next week’s U.S. midterm elections could heighten market volatility. Chloe expects Bitcoin to trade in a volatile range with a weaker bias next week, with $77,000 as a key level to watch in the short term. If uncertainty tied to the hack eases and net ETF inflows continue, BTC could attempt a rebound toward $80,000-$82,000. If panic selling persists and leveraged liquidations spread, however, Bitcoin could fall to $75,000 or lower.

Jupiter Lend, a major DeFi lending protocol in the Solana ecosystem, is experiencing delayed USDC withdrawals as market jitters following Binance’s $6.3 billion hack triggered a sharp liquidity squeeze, The Defiant reported. According to an on-chain API snapshot, USDC deposit claims in Jupiter Earn totaled about 418.5 million USDC including accrued interest, while the balance available for immediate withdrawal fell to just 3.35 USDC. The report said a wave of large withdrawal requests amid broader market fear temporarily drained available liquidity from the lending pool. Through its official channels, Jupiter said, "바이낸스에 직접 예치된 자금은 일절 없으며 익스포저는 0(제로)으로 모든 자금은 안전하다". Jupiter said the bottleneck reflects a temporary liquidity shortfall caused by DeFi’s structural mechanics, with most deposits tied up in active loans through borrow and leverage products, rather than any transmission of exchange losses.

Ethereum’s EIP-7702 upgrade was likely not the direct cause of Binance’s $6.3 billion hack, but it may have been used to streamline the attacker’s asset theft and bypass security checks, Cointelegraph reported. In an interview with Cointelegraph, Blockaid co-founder and CEO Ido Ben-Natan said the attack could have happened without EIP-7702, but the feature may have enabled multiple transactions to be executed at once. EIP-7702 was introduced with Ethereum’s Pectra upgrade in May 2025. It allows standard wallets to use smart contract functions, supporting bundled transaction execution and sponsored gas fees. Security concerns emerged soon after its launch. In May 2025, Wintermute said most early EIP-7702 delegation cases were tied to malicious contracts designed to automatically drain assets from compromised wallets. In September that year, holders of World Liberty Financial (WLFI) tokens also reported losses linked to malicious EIP-7702 delegations. The main cause of the Binance attack may have been a compromise of the transaction-signing system. Binance said its initial investigation found signs an engineer’s laptop may have been hacked, and the company later discovered additional points of compromise. Ben-Natan said the attacker may have used a developer’s computer to access Binance’s wallet-signing infrastructure and propose malicious transactions to the signing system that approves hot wallet transactions.

The BTC holdings tied to the hacker behind the unprecedented Binance hot wallet breach, valued at $6.3 billion, have surpassed the corporate reserves held by Coinbase, the largest publicly listed U.S. exchange, Cointelegraph reported. According to on-chain analysis from blockchain forensics platform Bitquery, wallets linked to the attacker hold a combined 18,270 BTC, worth about $1.4 billion, across 19 addresses. That is 199 BTC more than Coinbase’s corporate reserve of 18,071 BTC for investment and operational purposes, as disclosed on Sept. 30. Coinbase ranks eighth among publicly listed companies worldwide in Bitcoin holdings. The attackers also increased their Ethereum holdings to 508,621 ETH after carrying out stablecoin swaps to avoid asset freezes, on top of the initial 200,000 ETH stolen, according to the report. That amount exceeds the holdings of The Ether Machine, the third-largest publicly listed corporate holder of Ethereum.

Bitcoin treasury companies are accumulating 1.6 times more BTC than the amount being mined, creating a supply shock, BitcoinTreasuries reported, citing Strategy founder Michael Saylor. Saylor said Bitcoin accumulation companies were collaborators rather than competitors and were joining forces in a virtuous cycle.

TRON recorded record on-chain throughput, surpassing 11.31 million daily transactions and $33.3 billion in transfer volume amid some network delays and congestion, Cointelegraph reported.

Crypto trader Doctor Profit reaffirmed a bullish outlook for Bitcoin after the recent Binance hot wallet breach, arguing the exchange’s need to replenish lost assets could turn into strong market buying pressure. Doctor Profit estimated that of the roughly $6.3 billion in total losses, about $3.0 billion has been frozen. Even after the reissuance of frozen assets by Tether and Circle for USDT and USDC, a shortfall of about $3.3 billion, or roughly 2.05% of Binance’s total assets, would remain, according to the analysis. Doctor Profit said Binance had pledged one-for-one reimbursement for affected tokens, and if no additional recoveries are made, the exchange would need to repurchase large cryptocurrencies including Bitcoin through the open market and OTC channels. From a macro perspective, Doctor Profit said this would amount to net liquidity inflows. Doctor Profit also said the trader had prepared thoroughly in advance for short-term volatility and entered the market accordingly, while continuing to hold a leveraged Bitcoin long opened around $80,400 and spot holdings with an average entry price of $60,000.

Binance said it has urgently earmarked $6.34 billion in company funds in response to a hot wallet breach and has begun fully reimbursing affected user assets. In an official statement, the exchange said user losses would be covered 100% with company capital, as previously announced. Binance added that $5 billion of the allocated funds has already been secured in the form of the same token assets affected in the incident. For the remaining shortfall, Binance said it is directly purchasing the affected tokens on exchange and through OTC channels to match the assets on a one-to-one basis, with purchases to be completed in stages in consideration of liquidity and settlement schedules. The $3 billion in assets frozen on-chain through coordination with industry partners and issuers is not included in the allocation, Binance said. Binance added it is working with U.S. judicial authorities and blockchain forensics firms to recover the frozen assets, and said it would use its proof-of-reserves system to transparently verify the full soundness of customer assets once all recovery procedures are complete.