Reports on Oct 29-30 describe about $6.3B leaving Binance hot wallets across Ethereum, Bitcoin, Tron and L2s, which would make it the largest crypto hack on record, well above the $1.5B Bybit hack in 2025. Rickler Feed
Binance is quoted as investigating a potential security issue, saying user funds are safe and losses will be covered via SAFU and company funds, with withdrawals paused up to about 48 hours. The described entry was a compromised DevOps laptop / service container, plus EIP-7702 delegation, with Tornado Cash funding. Rickler Feed
About $3B is reported frozen so far: over 1.567B USDT by Tether, over 800M USDC by Circle, plus $200M XRP, $30.5M Arbitrum and others, leaving large ETH and BTC amounts unfrozen. Cointelegraph
Bitcoin did drop with the news but current venue quotes do not show below $77,000 or down 6-7.62% to $77,712: Binance spot quotes $77789.23, down 2.95%, Kraken spot $77676.1, with total crypto cap about $2.61T and Fear at 36. BullTheoryio post
The Polymarket page for What price will Bitcoin hit in October shows $16,174,053 Vol., matching the claimed over $16M volume. Polymarket
The dip to $75,000 market now shows 14.2% probability, close to the advertised 15.7c, with about $1.01M volume in that slice. Claims about North Korean hackers and quiet profits from panic are the promo posts' claims, not verified trades.
The $170B wiped and $1.39-1.5B liquidations figures come from those same social posts and market updates, which report BTC about -2.24%, ETH -3.39% and liquidations about $1.49B. Rickler Feed