regulation
The Justice Department obtained court authority on Nov 12 to seize $1.2B tied to the Binance theft, and separately seized FaceStealer infrastructure the FBI says stole $400M over 18 months.
infrastructure
Binance Pool's hashrate share fell to 0.11% on mempool.space. The pool stops accepting shares at 07:00 UTC on Tuesday, six and a half years after launch.
infrastructure
Binance co-CEO Yi He said on Nov 7 that CFO Kaiser Ng is leaving for a new venture; Justin Yek of Airwallex takes over. Company says the handover was planned six months ago.
regulation
Binance notified French customers Nov 6 that all accounts close on Dec 31 and monthly fees of 0.025% or 10 USDC (whichever is greater) begin Nov 29, after failing to obtain MiCA authorization.
A Nov 6 Trail of Bits post argues the Binance hack shows attackers no longer need the key: a compromised signing service plus EIP-7702 delegation is enough to drain a wallet quietly.
on-chain
An Elliptic report updated Nov 6 says $3.11B of the $6.43B stolen from Binance on Oct 29 has not moved; $2.85B has been frozen or seized.
infrastructure
Binance revoked every customer API key linked to the Hong Kong options platform SignalPlus on Nov 5 after it reported a potential security issue; Binance says its own systems are unaffected.
exploit
Arbitrum's 9-of-12 Security Council replaced the Inbox contract code to send 74,559,805 ARB and 8,425 ETH from the Binance attacker to a holding wallet; funds now locked behind a DAO vote.
exploit
Binance's SAFU bitcoin address 1BAuq7Vho2CEkVkUxbfU26LhwQjbCmWQkD now shows ~7,500 BTC (~$580M) after four Oct 31 outflows cut the balance in half; refill timeline unspecified.
exploit
Tom Robinson's Nov 2 Elliptic analysis of the $6.43B Binance theft: 12,000 wallets, 40,000 transactions in under four days, six bridges opened in a 150-minute window, no evidence of AI agents.
exploit
Binance says customer BTC, ETH, USDT, BNB, SOL, USDC, XRP, USD1, RLUSD and ZEC balances are now fully backed. Proof-of-reserves snapshot taken at midnight UTC Oct 31; full Merkle proof expected Nov 3.
exploit
Binance reports $4.65B withdrawn against $1.01B deposited in the 9.5 hours after Nov 1 reopening, a $3.64B net outflow equal to 2.1% of its $171B assets.
exploit
FBI, USSS and IRS-CI formally attributed the Oct 29 Binance theft of over $6B to TraderTraitor. The notice lists over 600 ETH, under 20 BTC and one SOL address and asks THORNode and DeFi to block.
exploit
Analyst SomaXBT traces $242M of Binance hack funds through Tron, with ~$140M bridged off via Relay, THORChain, Chainflip and Symbiosis. FBI Oct 31 alert names THORNode operators.
exploit
Tether froze $1.567B USDT and Circle blocked over $800M USDC after the Binance hack. Lawyers warn ownership, jurisdiction and precedent for smaller victims are unresolved.
regulation
CFTC Chair Michael Selig told CNBC Oct 30 the $6.3B Binance theft 'proves our exact point' and pointed to a federal registration path for offshore exchanges while Congress waits on CLARITY.
exploit
Binance's Richard Teng says the exchange reserved $6.34B to cover the Oct 29 drain and targets Sunday for withdrawal restart. Arbitrum's Security Council froze another $30.5M of attacker funds.
exploit
A compromised Binance DevOps laptop let an attacker drain hot wallets via an EIP-7702 delegation sweeper on Oct 29. Binance puts the impact at $6.3B, with roughly $3B frozen on-chain.
infrastructure
India's CoinDCX put its futures market in reduce-only mode after the Oct 29 Binance incident disrupted its unnamed liquidity provider. Deposits, withdrawals and spot trading remain live.
on-chain
Round-the-clock chip-stock contracts on Binance and Trade XYZ (Hyperliquid) saw ~$51.6M forced-closed between 21:22 and 21:32 UTC on Saturday with no U.S. share price to anchor them.
infrastructure
Binance will shut Binance Pool, Pool Savings, Cloud Mining, the Transaction Accelerator and all mining-pool APIs on Nov. 10 at 07:00 UTC. Pool pages stay viewable until Nov. 24.
infrastructure
The free generative-UI layer went global on October 12 following a September 7 beta; Binance AI Pro and Agent OS remain behind separate rollouts.
on-chain
Binance's insurance reserve, converted from stablecoins in February, sits at roughly $1.27B against a $1B cost basis. The wallet is public and verifiable on-chain.
regulation
ESMA with France, Germany and Greece examine whether Binance's Abu Dhabi entity serves EU customers lawfully under MiCA Article 61 after it lost its registrations July 1.