The Binance hack dominated the hour. It is a $6.3 billion theft that one outlet calls the biggest crypto heist in history, and its effects are still spreading through the market ^1,2. Binance is reopening withdrawals in phases and says 90% of affected user assets are now backed ¹. USDT, USDC, ETH and BNB withdrawals are live on Ethereum and BNB Smart Chain, while other networks still await clearance ³. The stolen funds are moving. 485,270 SOL worth $46 million went to an unidentified wallet ⁴, as did about 120 million TRX worth roughly $38.26 million ⁵. Tron fell about 7% to $0.308 on fears the hacker would sell TRX bought with stolen stablecoins ⁶. Elliptic has published a public blocklist of the exploit addresses ⁷. The damage reached DeFi. Morpho borrow rates hit roughly 40% after the Oct. 29 hack as liquidity in Pendle-linked PT markets dried up ⁸. Aave lifted a precautionary freeze on its V3 and V4 markets that followed the breach ⁹. Origin restored OGN liquidity it had pulled to limit the attacker's sales ¹⁰. CertiK now puts October exploit and phishing losses at about $6.5 billion, lifting the 2026 total to roughly $9.2 billion ¹¹. Two separate disruptions are worth keeping apart from the hack: Aave froze its tBTC reserve after Threshold paused minting and redemptions ¹², and THORChain swaps remain paused on 12 of 13 external chains after a refund error ¹³. The broader macro backdrop is also soft. Global markets enter November weighed by doubts over AI investment returns and by inflation worries ¹⁴. Gold and Bitcoin are the year's worst major assets, a pattern unprecedented in records back to 2011 ¹⁵. A Reuters poll shows 31 of 50 economies with 2027 inflation forecasts revised upward ¹⁶. Banks are owed $349 billion by private credit funds that may book interest without collecting cash ¹⁷. On the war, Ukraine's General Staff puts Russia's October losses at 54,400 soldiers, its worst month of the full-scale invasion ¹⁸. Romania scrambled four F-16s after two drones entered its airspace ¹⁹. Fire Point confirmed a strike on the Kstovo refinery ²⁰, and Russia is testing wheat exports via Murmansk because of Black Sea port disruptions ²¹. Elsewhere: - Trump said the U.S. still has targets in Iran to deal with ²². - A federal judge permanently dismissed his defamation suit against the Wall Street Journal ²³. - France's gigabyte tax cleared the National Assembly 11–10 ²⁴. - Germany saw more than 200 arrests in Gen Z protests ²⁵. - London police arrested 139 protesters against the Palestine Action ban .