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Express attack on Binance: how the exchange repelled a hack in 20 minutes and protected client funds
Binance, the largest cryptocurrency exchange, has once again demonstrated that the speed of response to security incidents has become a critical competitive ad...
The $6.3 billion Binance hack exposed the problem of double standards in freezing stolen assets
The Binance incident, which put assets worth $6.3 billion at risk, has once again brought to the forefront a fundamental question for the industry: by what rul...
RAKIB proposes reconsidering the role of mining in Russia's economy: from extraction to a production chain
Russian mining should be evaluated not by the number of farms and the volume of coins mined, but by the real benefit it brings to the country's economy. This p...
Hidden Monero mining under the guise of ChatGPT and the arrest of a hacker in South Korea: the main threats of the week
The cryptocurrency landscape continues to remain an arena for sophisticated cyber threats. Cryptalist analysts have recorded several significant incidents at o...
<p>The Bank of Japan kept its rate at 1.25%: a split on the board and signals for the crypto market</p>
The Bank of Japan (BOJ) decided on October 30 to keep its key rate at 1.25%. Eight of the nine board members voted for this — only Hajime Takada opposed, propo...
Moscow Exchange closes shorts on MGKL: technical default, account blocking and ban on short selling
The National Clearing Centre (NCC) will ban short selling of PJSC MGKL (Mosgorlombard) shares within a limit of 5 million securities starting November 5. The r...
Oil at a monthly peak: how the escalation around the Strait of Hormuz is reshaping the energy market
On Friday, the price of West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude rose to $106.2 per barrel — the highest since mid-September. The trigger was a surge in geopolitica...
Irkutsk Oblast: Illegal mining moves into the forests — the ninth farm in a year and energy company losses exceeding 1 million rubles
A ninth illegal mining farm connected to power lines in a year has been discovered near Irkutsk. Losses for the grid company exceeded 1 million rubles, and the...
Shiba Inu: Team warns of liquidation risks amid long position imbalance
The Shiba Inu team has warned traders to exercise heightened caution after $20 million in SHIB positions were liquidated within 24 hours. Of that amount, $12.9...
Bitcoin on Coinbase is trading at an FTX-crash-level discount: what this means for the market
Bitcoin (BTC) is trading at the deepest discount on the US exchange Coinbase relative to Binance since November 2022 — the time of the FTX collapse. The indica...
Musk mocks Binance hack while CZ reminds of billion-dollar stake in SpaceX
The world's largest crypto exchange lost about $6.3 billion in a hack — and the event has already escalated into a public spat between Elon Musk and Binance's ...
Nvidia in the crosshairs: US intelligence suspects former Megaspeed top manager of ties to Chinese intelligence
US intelligence agencies are conducting an investigation into Alice Huang (also known as Huang Le), who previously held a senior position at the Singapore-base...
North Korean hackers target BlackRock's Bitcoin ETF: $63 billion at risk
BlackRock's largest spot Bitcoin ETF IBIT could become the next target of North Korean hacker groups. At stake are about 815,000 BTC worth roughly $63 billion,...
AI in Kazakhstan's agricultural sector: savings of up to 57% of resources, but the dividends will go to large players
Kazakhstan's President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has endorsed the introduction of artificial intelligence in agriculture. The technology opens the way to reducing ...
Storing large capital in 2026: ranking of the best non-custodial crypto wallets by 12 criteria
In 2026, the question of securely storing large capital in digital assets is shifting from "choosing a wallet" to managing the risks of an entire investment po...
Digital Som Will Wait: Kyrgyzstan Postpones CBDC Pilot to 2027
Kyrgyzstan has adjusted the timeline for introducing its own central bank digital currency. Citizens and companies will be able to test the digital som no earl...
Wolfspeed brings transparent silicon carbide to market — a breakthrough for quantum computing and AR optics
Wolfspeed has announced the commercialization of transparent silicon carbide (SiC), a material capable of becoming a key element in the production of quantum c...
Hardware Wallets Under Attack: Why Coldcard and Keystone Made a Crypto Recovery Expert's Blacklist
Lost bitcoin wallet recovery specialist David Wexler, founder of the WalletRecovery.info service, conducted a comparative analysis of four high-profile hardwar...
Mistral AI opens a new era: the flagship Large 4 model with a trillion parameters is now available to the community
French developer Mistral AI has taken a significant step for the entire open-model industry by publishing the weights of its flagship language model Large 4, k...
The Ministry of Digital Development divides AI and big data: a new governance architecture and a signal for the market
The Ministry of Digital Development has carried out a structural reorganization: the former combined department for the development of artificial intelligence ...
<p>The Binance hack pushed BTC implied volatility to its highest level since August: traders are buying downside protection</p>
The hacking of Binance's hot wallets on the Ethereum network triggered a sharp surge in demand for protective options. The BTC implied volatility index jumped ...
AI analyst warns: after Binance hack, crypto exchanges face a wave of cyberattacks
Crypto exchange hacks risk becoming routine. An AI researcher known by the nickname TheCoinClapper issued this warning following the Binance incident. In his a...
Ant Group unveils LingGuang 2.0: an AI agent with cross-session memory and integration into Alipay
Chinese technology and financial giant Ant Group has brought to the PRC market an updated version of its AI agent — LingGuang 2.0. The key difference of the ne...
Binance allocates $6.34 billion of its own reserves to compensate for losses from the hack
The world's largest cryptocurrency exchange Binance has initiated the process of returning funds to users affected by a hack. To cover the losses, the platform...
The Bank of Russia refused to hide the register of crypto exchangers: sanctions risks are accepted knowingly
The Bank of Russia does not intend to abandon the publication of registries of digital depositories and crypto exchanges, despite the obvious sanctions risks. ...
BingX AI Skills Hub: requests to AI tools grew by almost 1000% in five months
The cryptocurrency industry is undergoing a quiet but fundamental shift: artificial intelligence is no longer an experimental add-on and is becoming a working ...
The Bank of Russia will deploy crypto infrastructure in 2027: traders can expect a return to the jurisdiction
The Bank of Russia plans to roll out cryptocurrency infrastructure in stages throughout 2027. Investors will get a legal alternative to foreign exchanges, but ...
Wikimedia vs. chatbots: the legal divide between AI training and content reproduction
The Wikimedia Foundation, which manages the infrastructure of "Wikipedia," has filed a request with the federal court in New York to establish a clear legal bo...
Anatomy of the largest hack: how a pre-planned operation in Ethereum was behind the attack on Binance
New details of the largest hack in crypto industry history clarify the picture: Binance's $6.36 billion in losses was distributed across nine blockchains, and ...
Foreigners are leaving the OFZ market: the share of non-residents has fallen to 2.9% — what does this mean for investors?
The Russian government debt market has come almost entirely under the control of domestic investors. By the beginning of October, the share of non-residents in...