Binance is working with law enforcement, including the FBI according to a source, to recover stolen funds from the record $6.3 billion exploit. The exchange said $3 billion of the stolen assets have been frozen by industry partners and that it has set aside more than $6.34 billion of company funds to cover losses, $5 billion of which is held in the exact stolen tokens. According to DefiLlama, Binance processed about $6 billion in outflows over the past 24 hours. The article also recalls that in 2022 the US Justice Department seized 94,000 Bitcoin worth $3.6 billion linked to the 2016 Bitfinex hack.
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Relevance: medium
| Market | Crypto |
|---|---|
| Exchange | Binance |
| Sector | Exchange tokens |
| Market cap | $97.5B |
| Close on 10/29/2026 | 698.46 |
| Change that session | -8.08% |
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• NeutralBitcoin
Relevance: low
| Market | Crypto |
|---|---|
| Exchange | Binance |
| Sector | Layer 1 |
| Market cap | $1.6T |
| Close on 10/29/2026 | 77,991.89 |
| Change that session | -4.12% |
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