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Bitcoin’s sleeping whales have been quiet for years but what happens when billions in dormant $BTC suddenly move? Is it a warning sign, a chance to take profits, or just another whale making a move? Would you panic if a long-dormant wallet woke up today? 👀 Read the story and share your take👇 defi-planet.com/2026/10/the-… $USDT $ETH

🚨UPDATE: $BNB Chain says $BNB Smart Chain, $opBNB, Greenfield and its bridges were unaffected by the Binance security incident. Confirms its networks and bridges remain operational.

🚨UPDATE: Binance’s Richard Teng clarifies the attack went beyond one engineer’s permissions and was not a “one-click” action. $BNB

🚨UPDATE: 12 crypto projects and platforms were hit by hacks in the past week, per DefiLlama. - Binance: $5.78B - X100: $4.75M - Initia: $2.6M - Polymarket: $2.7M - Fence Finance: $1.01M - Bloom Trading Bot: $953K - zkLink Nova: $783K - Predict(.)fun: $400K Other incidents include Hifi Finance, Zilliqa X-Bridge, Myriad Markets and Yapeswap. $USDT $SOL

🚨UPDATE: Binance CEO Richard Teng breaks down the latest developments following yesterday’s hack.

Fake Google support cost one crypto holder 185 Bitcoin ($13M). Trenton Johnston shared his screen on Discord to demonstrate his schemes, spending the loot on a Lamborghini and private jets before getting arrested in Miami. He has now been sentenced to 25 months in prison. Real support teams will never ask for your private keys or seed phrase.

Russia President called Elon Musk “a genius.” He said this at the Russia Africa Summit in Moscow while talking about Russia’s own satellite internet project called Rassvet. He also said Russia is in “close contact” with American partners including Musk.

🔥UPDATE: Binance has begun recovering affected assets and reserved over $6.34B in company funds to cover losses.

BREAKING: @binance has reported a $6.3 billion security incident; potentially the largest crypto heist ever. Blockchain analytics firms estimate this to be roughly four times larger than the 2025 Bybit hack. ▶️Preliminary investigations point to a compromised DevOps engineer’s laptop as a possible entry point. ▶️Deposits are operating normally; withdrawals remain paused with an expectation of resumption within about 48 hours after a security revamp.

🇦🇪 HUGE: Standard Asset Company has opened a UAE office to advance its $1.5 billion $BTC and real estate strategy.

🔥UPDATE: Tokenized stocks have climbed to a $4.63B market cap, the same level stablecoins hit in March 2020 before growing 64x to $297B, per Token Terminal. $USDT $USDC

📊 UPDATE: Open Standard led stablecoin issuers in market cap growth over the past 30 days, with $OUSD adding $794M, per Token Terminal data.

🔥UPDATE: Ripple partners with Coinbase to bring $RLUSD to its retail app, Prime and Exchange. What's next for Ripple!

🔥UPDATE: Bitwise projects $BTC will reach $1.6 million by 2036, driven by rising institutional demand, limited supply and growing concerns over fiat currency debasement.