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$30.68BFully Diluted Mcap
$30.68BSupply
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Aug 28th, 2017All Time High (ATH)
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-25.16%ATH Date
Dec 3rd, 2024Total Value Locked (TVL)
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Nov 3, 2026
Business
North Korea Denies $6.3B Binance Hack, Calls FBI Finding a 'Political Provocation'
North Korea has rejected U.S. findings that it was behind the record hack of Binance, calling the FBI's attribution a "grave political provocation," Yonhap reported on Tuesday. "It is a grave political provocation against the DPRK that the U.S. misleads the international public opinion as if all the cyber crimes in different parts of the world are our deeds," Kim Yo Jong, the sister of leader Kim Jong Un, said in a statement carried by the state-run Korean Central News Agency. She called the acc...
Nov 2, 2026
DeFi
FBI Blames North Korea for $6B Binance Hack as Exchange Reopens Withdrawals
The FBI has confirmed that North Korea was behind last week's theft of more than $6 billion from Binance, as the exchange began reopening withdrawals and reported billions of dollars leaving the platform. In an alert published on Saturday, the FBI said the attack was carried out by North Korean hackers it refers to as "TraderTraitor," confirming the attribution blockchain analytics firms TRM Labs and Chainalysis made on Friday. The FBI is releasing information advising the Democratic People's R...
Oct 30, 2026
Business
Binance Sets Aside $6.34B to Cover Hack Losses, CEO Says 'Your Assets Are Safe'
Binance will cover every dollar lost in this week's hack with its own money, CEO Richard Teng said in a video address on Friday, adding that customer funds were never touched. "We are committed to covering all hacked losses through our company funds. Your assets are safe," Teng said, according to a transcript he tweeted. An update on the security incident. pic.twitter.com/qn2804fO5z — Richard Teng (@_RichardTeng) October 30, 2026 Binance has reserved more than $6.34 billion of company funds to...
Oct 30, 2026
Opinion
Morning Minute: Binance’s $6.4B Hack Overshadows Hyperliquid’s Biggest Day
Morning Minute is a daily newsletter written by Tyler Warner. The analysis and opinions expressed are his own and do not necessarily reflect those of Decrypt. And check out our daily news show 'FOMO HOUR' covering all of the top stories and market action. GM! Today’s top news: Crypto majors rebound fall 1-2% alongside stocks; BTC at $77.5k Binance hacked for $6.4B by NK, roughly half frozen; Binance to cover losses out of SAFU fund AAVE forced to freeze v3 and v4 markets on Ethereum after attac...
Oct 30, 2026
Technology
TRM and Chainalysis Tie $6.4B Binance Hack to North Korea's TraderTraitor
Three blockchain analytics firms have attributed this week's hack of Binance to North Korea, with two of the largest naming TraderTraitor, a North Korean hacking group, as responsible for what both describe as the largest crypto theft on record. TRM Labs said it made the attribution "with high confidence," based on "robust on and off-chain intelligence." It put the theft at about $6.36 billion, moved out of Binance wallets on 10 blockchains, most of it in about 20 minutes from 4:05 p.m. ET on Th...
Oct 30, 2026
Business
Binance Finds 'Additional Points of Breach' in $6.3B Hack
Binance has uncovered "additional points of breach" in Thursday's security incident, which it estimates cost around $6.3 billion, the exchange said on Friday, after initially pointing to a compromised engineer's laptop. In an announcement late Thursday, Binance said a compromised DevOps engineer's laptop may have allowed an attacker to gain access to a service container and submit unauthorized withdrawal transactions. "We have found no evidence of any wallet private key leak," the exchange said....
Oct 29, 2026
Business
Justin Sun's HTX Agrees to Leave UK in Settlement With Financial Watchdog
Crypto exchange HTX is leaving the UK after settling a lawsuit brought by the Financial Conduct Authority over illegal crypto promotions, the regulator said on Thursday. The FCA said it had secured undertakings in the High Court that HTX, formerly known as Huobi, will not knowingly promote crypto services unlawfully to UK consumers. Huobi Global S.A., the Panama-registered company named as the first defendant, has undertaken not to communicate financial promotions in breach of UK law across HTX'...
Oct 29, 2026
Law and Order
Treasury Sanctions 11 Over North Korean IT Worker Scheme That Moved Millions in Crypto
The U.S. Treasury Department has sanctioned 10 individuals and one entity for their roles in North Korean IT worker schemes that defraud U.S. businesses and generate revenue for the country's weapons programs, the department said on Wednesday. North Korea uses fake documents, stolen identities and invented personas to place IT workers at legitimate companies, then takes most of their wages, generating hundreds of millions of dollars for its weapons of mass destruction and ballistic missile progr...
Oct 26, 2026
Business
India’s CoinDCX Confirms $16 Million Loss Days After CEO Called It a ‘False Alarm’
Indian crypto exchange CoinDCX has admitted it lost about $16 million in an attack on its wallet infrastructure, reversing its co-founder’s earlier insistence that reports of a breach were a “false alarm.” In a blog post, the Mumbai-based exchange said 15.99 million USDT was drained and that it has absorbed the loss itself, stressing that customer funds remain safe. Myriad: Where does ETH go next? Click to make your prediction. The money moved on the Tron network on Oct. 21, and the company trac...
Oct 3, 2026
Technology
Chainalysis Used AI to Trace the $387M Bitget Hack Back to North Korea
Blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis has pinned last month's $387 million Bitget exchange hack on North Korea, adding its weight to a growing consensus that Pyongyang's hackers were behind one of the year's largest crypto thefts. In a report published Wednesday, Chainalysis attributed the Sept. 24 breach to actors tied to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, saying the heist pushed the total value of crypto stolen by North Korea-linked groups in 2026 past $1 billion. Myriad: How high will...
Sep 30, 2026
Law and Order
US Senator Blumenthal Calls Tether's USDT a 'Superhighway' for Iranian Sanctions Evasion
Of 846 cryptocurrency wallets sanctioned or targeted for seizure over links to Iran and its regional proxies, 84% transacted exclusively or nearly exclusively in Tether's USDT stablecoin, according to a report released by Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT). The report, titled "Tethered to Terrorism," comes from Democratic staff on the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, where Blumenthal is ranking member. It draws on blockchain records for wallets designated by the Treasury's Office...
Aug 25, 2026
Technology
Dozens of Fake Firefox Wallet Extensions Linked to Crypto-Stealing Malware
Firefox users have been targeted by a production line of counterfeit crypto wallet extensions, some of which spent months publishing live football scores before being quietly converted into tools for stealing recovery phrases. Socket's threat research team published its findings last week, linking 77 extension identities through shared code, infrastructure and publishing patterns, and confirming 40 as malicious. Mozilla signing records place the campaign from March 9 to August 3, with several ex...
Aug 13, 2026
Law and Order
FCA, HTX in Settlement Talks Over Illegal UK Crypto Promotions: Report
The Financial Conduct Authority and HTX are "in talks" to negotiate a settlement in the regulator's case over unlawful crypto promotions to UK consumers, with London's High Court pausing proceedings until late August to let the two sides reach terms, Reuters reported from court filings. The sides exchanged emails in March, opened three months of talks and extended them by a further two on June 25. The FCA issued proceedings in the Chancery Division on October 21 last year, in the first enforceme...
Aug 10, 2026
Coins
Hackers Drain $8 Million From Crypto Exchange Across Two Blockchains
An attacker drained more than $8 million from crypto platform Coinsbuy across the Tron and Ethereum networks on Sunday before moving most of the stolen funds, according to an analysis by blockchain investigator BlockWatchdog. In a report posted on X, BlockWatchdog said the attack began on Tron with a 5 USDT test transaction. Minutes later, more than 6 million USDT was drained from eight Coinsbuy wallets. On Ethereum, another 1.89 million USDT and 77 ETH were taken from three wallets. “On Augus...
Jul 22, 2026
Law and Order
Justin Sun's HTX 'Rotating' On-Chain Wallets Amid UK Sanctions: TRM Labs
Crypto exchange HTX has rebuilt its underlying wallet infrastructure in the weeks since the UK sanctioned it, rotating deposit and hot wallets on a rapid cycle, blockchain intelligence firm TRM Labs said in a report Tuesday. The exchange has “rebuilt its on-chain plumbing,” TRM Labs said, with the result that address-list screening “cannot keep pace” The Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation designated Huobi Global S.A., the entity behind HTX, on May 26, the first time the UK applied the...
Jul 13, 2026
Law and Order
Bank of Thailand Flags Abnormal Stablecoin Trades in 'Grey Economy' Crackdown
Thailand's central bank has turned data-analytics tools on the country's stablecoin market, scanning high-volume trades for signs of illicit money as part of a widening crackdown on the shadow economy. Bank of Thailand Governor Vitai Ratanakorn said the central bank has begun screening abnormally large stablecoin transactions, particularly in Tether's USDT, and has already flagged some that appear designed to sidestep disclosure requirements or move funds outside normal banking channels, accordi...
Jul 2, 2026
Law and Order
Treasury Department Sanctions Over 130 ISIS-Affiliated Crypto Wallets on Tron
The U.S. Treasury Department sanctioned more than 130 cryptocurrency wallet addresses this week tied to ISIS, with the overwhelming majority operating on the Tron blockchain. The Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) added 134 crypto wallets to existing sanctions on ISIS-K, the Islamic State's affiliate operating in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Central Asia. Of those addresses, 131 were on Tron and three on Monero. The sanctioned Tron addresses have received more than $1.4...
May 16, 2026
Law and Order
Justin Sun-Led Liberland Micronation Awards Ethereum Founder Vitalik Buterin Its Top Honor
Liberland, the self-declared micronation that elected Tron founder Justin Sun as prime minister in 2024, awarded Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin its highest state honor this week during ETHPrague 2026 in Prague. Liberland President Vít Jedlička presented Buterin with the “First Class Order of Merit of the Star of Liberland” during a side event at the Ethereum-focused conference. “Liberland celebrates a shared vision by honoring Vitalik Buterin—using technology to expand human freedom and to...
May 1, 2026
Business
Senators Warren, Wyden Quiz Commerce Secretary Lutnick Over Tether Loan to Children’s Trust
Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Ron Wyden (D-OR) have written to Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino, requesting information about loans made by the stablecoin firm to a trust that Lutnick's children benefited from. Bloomberg reported in March that Lutnick sold his stake in Cantor Fitzgerald, a financial services firm, to his four children in October 2025, in order to comply with federal ethics rules. A day later, Warren and Wyden wrote, Tether lent an undisclosed...
Apr 22, 2026
DeFi
Justin Sun Sues Trump-Backed World Liberty Financial Over Frozen Tokens
Justin Sun is taking the Trump family's crypto venture to federal court. The Tron founder filed suit Tuesday in California against World Liberty Financial, tweeting that the project froze his tokens, stripped his voting rights, and threatened to permanently destroy his holdings, without notice, cause, or recourse. Today, I filed a lawsuit in California federal court against World Liberty Financial to protect my legal rights as a holder of $WLFI tokens. I have always been—and remain—an ardent su...