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Bybit is a major centralized cryptocurrency exchange offering spot and derivatives trading, which suffered a record $1.5 billion hack in early 2025.
Leveraged crypto longs lost more than $876 million to liquidation in 24 hours, Crypto Briefing reported. A second tracker's October 15 tally puts longs at 84.5% of liquidations, under the 88% to 92% peak share.
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Hypercall, an exchange built on Hyperliquid, has logged $640 million in notional volume since June 1, more than 80% of it in S&P 500 options. The exchange supplied every figure, and the whole run is a small fraction of one day's S&P 500 options trading.
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Bybit has opened more than 1,000 US stocks and ETFs to eligible global users, payable in USDC, with Alpaca clearing and holding the shares. That sets the exchange against brokerages for USDC balances, a step past the tokenized equities it already sells.
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Bitcoin traded near $84,025 on Oct. 12, up 1.3% in 24 hours, as shorts made up $39.61 million of $46.68 million in liquidations, per CoinGlass. ETF inflows on Oct. 9 replaced only 2.9% of the Oct. 7-8 outflows, and the seven-day loss of about 3.3% is still open.
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79thVault's 79AU pool on PancakeSwap was drained on October 7 through a permission inside the project's own token. Cryptopolitan reported that the attacker has returned 15,000 of the 16,249 BNB, and the team plans to re-seed the pool behind burned LP tokens, the same lock Bitquery found on 79% of receipts when it was drained.
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Binance XRP/USDT turnover fell 78.6% over the completed October 8-10 sessions while the closing price rose 1.6%, CryptoSlate reported. Binance and Bybit open interest was still below its October 8 level on October 11, and CryptoSlate sees no clear evidence of sustained buying behind the rebound.
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Investigator ZachXBT posed as a paying client of a Chinese laundering network and traced more than $12 million of North Korea's stolen Bybit funds. The trace covers under 1% of the roughly $1.5 billion taken, so the broker proved reachable even as recovery stayed small.
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Alabama sentenced crypto-scam courier Kuan Tsou to serve one year and repay $211,000 taken from an elderly Montgomery resident. Because the resident kept paying other strangers after his arrest, the order covers about 78% of the roughly $270,000 investigators say was lost.
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Bitcoin fell to $83,404 on Wednesday after one overnight hour traded 309 BTC, at least three times the volume of any hour around it. Whether that low holds depends on how much futures leverage the selloff forced out.
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Franklin Templeton CEO Jenny Johnson called rival tokenized funds "digital twins" at TOKEN2049, pricing BENJI transactions at $1.13 against roughly $150. Her January earnings call gave different numbers, so where a fund keeps its ownership record is the firmer test.
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Gate launched Gate Money, letting its more than 60 million users hold, convert and spend cash, crypto, stocks and gold from one account. Founder Lin Han promises conversions at any hour but has not explained how a stock sold after the market shuts would be priced.
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ZachXBT says he fronted $349.7K in USDC to pose as a client of the Chinese syndicate laundering North Korea's Bybit haul. The only recovery on record, a 442K USDT freeze by Tether, covers at most 3.7% of the $12M+ cluster he says the sting exposed.
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Binance, Bybit and OKX handled $56.18 billion of XRP futures trading in September, near a six-month high, Cryptoquant data show. Volume counts every trade and the same margin can back many of them, so new money would have to show up in open interest and spot buying.
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Ethereum Foundation says EIP-7906, a check that could have reverted the $1.5 billion Bybit theft, will not ship before 2027. Its own post concedes the check cannot stop the stolen-key and social-engineering attacks behind most of 2026's losses.
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Greenfield Capital asked Switzerland's foundation watchdog to examine Safe's Zug foundation, whose board it says has at times had only two members. The early backer wants Stefan George replaced and independent directors added after months of talks failed.
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Drift's DFX recovery token opened at about 0.0104 USDT per dollar lost in the $295.4 million April exploit, roughly one cent on the dollar. Paying every capped pledge in full would lift that to about 50 cents, and the other half depends on Velocity's revenue and on funds recovered from the attacker.
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NEAR Intents' SHIELD layer refused all but $166,000 of a $50 million-plus attempt by Bitget's hackers. That makes screening policy the clearest difference between NEAR and THORChain. Each protocol carries a different exposure because of it.
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Bitget CEO Gracy Chen doubts much of the $387.5 million stolen via a backend tied to a third-party security vendor will come back. So far about 0.2% of the loss has been frozen, so the exchange itself is paying for an outsourced security flaw.
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Bitget says attackers stole $387.5 million after exploiting zero-days in two third-party security appliances. Investigators say the appliances' privileged access led the attacker to its production wallet server.
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Bitget CEO Gracy Chen expects to recover little of the $388 million stolen from the exchange, citing Bybit's 3.5% freeze rate. On that benchmark about $13.6 million is frozen within a year and roughly $374 million stays with whoever carries the loss.
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