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Hour in Review — 2026-11-01 03:00 UTC 14 sources
The hour was dominated by one story and its ripples: the FBI has attributed the record $6.3 billion Binance theft to North Korean hackers 1,2, and in an Oct. 31 alert warned crypto firms against handling transactions linked to it 1. Binance says it has made good on 90 percent of the losses and is buying up the rest through market and over-the-counter channels 3. The damage is reaching beyond the exchange. Bitcoin treasury firm Next Technology Holding, which holds 5,833 bitcoin, now judges that keeping its coins may be riskier than selling them after the hack 4. Bitcoin sat near $77,000 on October 31 after the breach-driven selloff, and ETF outflows over the same period reached $643 million 5. Ethena's ENA token sank to a $0.16 low after the incident before rallying roughly 16 percent 6. Michael Saylor predicted the industry would harden its defenses in response 7. Separately, Washington sanctioned 10 individuals and one entity, two of them Russians, for allegedly helping North Korean IT workers convert digital currency into cash 8. A smaller, unrelated breach drained $2.73 million from 737 Polymarket wallets by exploiting valid wallet approvals rather than smart-contract flaws 9. Outside crypto, the most time-sensitive item is legal. D.C. and Virginia have asked a federal court for a temporary restraining order against Trump's 250-foot triumphal arch at Memorial Circle, where ground could break as soon as Nov. 5 . Their suit argues the arch violates the Height of Buildings Act's general 130-foot cap, and Judge Tanya Chutkan has said she will move expeditiously 10. Street unrest marked parts of Europe. Gen Z demonstrations drew tens of thousands in Germany, where police used water cannon after violence broke out 11. France's Interior Ministry counted 320,000 demonstrators, down from 410,000 the previous week, with 565 arrests by 9 p.m. 12. On the war in Ukraine, Russian state outlet RT reported that more than 750 civilians have been evacuated from Alyoshki under a six-day truce expiring Sunday evening 13. Meanwhile, Russian strikes on October 31 hit power infrastructure across Kyiv, Dnipropetrovsk and Sumy oblasts, cutting electricity to hundreds of thousands of households . Trump also said the US has to take care of Iran's Pickaxe Mountain, believed to hold nuclear material 14.
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