When the right address leads to the wrong site
Late on Friday, October 30, 2026, attackers redirected the real domains of at least 12 DeFi sites registered via Name.com to wallet-draining copies, according to Blockaid. Name.com confirmed on X on October 31 that some domains were improperly redirected late Friday as part of a plan to access visitors' crypto wallets, putting the affected total at...
The number that answers the solvency questionWhen Binance began restoring withdrawals on Sunday, November 1, after Thursday's record $6.3 billion hack, the question was not whether some users would leave — it was how many, how fast, and whether the exchange could handle it. The first answer arrived within hours. Binance recorded about $3.64 billion in net outflows in the first nine and a...
The most expensive word in tradingEvery trader loves a breakout: price pushes through a level that held it back, and the move that follows can be fast. Every trader also hates the fakeout — the same push, followed by a snap back inside the range that traps buyers at the top. The difference between the two is rarely the level itself. It is what happens around the level: how much volume...
One week, three market-moving eventsWall Street enters November with a calendar so crowded it is hard to overstate. Between Monday, November 2 and Sunday, November 8, 145 S&P 500 companies report earnings — 133 on confirmed dates and 12 on estimated dates, according to the public Nasdaq calendar and SEC filings. On Tuesday, November 3, Americans vote in the midterm elections, with all...
The crypto that is designed to stand still
Bitcoin can move 5% before lunch. A stablecoin is built to do the opposite: stay at one dollar, day after day, so it can be used for trading, payments and saving without the holder riding the market's mood. A stablecoin is a crypto token that lives on a blockchain and aims to hold a fixed value — in almost every case, one US dollar. That simple...
A market holding its breath
The dollar and other major currencies opened the week in a holding pattern on Monday, as investors turned their attention to a US midterm election that could shift the balance of power in Congress and control over the federal purse strings. Traders were bracing for a packed week dominated by the midterms, October US jobs data and central bank rate decisions in the...
Volume is not the same as depth
Memecoin traders love volume — big numbers feel like safety. November 1, 2026 offered a perfect lesson in why volume alone misleads. Pepe (PEPE) jumped roughly 15% on Friday, outperforming Dogecoin and Shiba Inu even as the Binance security breach rattled the broader market, and its $2.03 billion trading volume exceeded the combined volume of Dogecoin and...
A deadline that cleared the fieldBrazil's cryptocurrency industry has just been through a sorting event. After the Central Bank of Brazil's October 30 deadline for virtual asset service providers (VASPs) to apply to keep operating, reports indicate that only around 40 companies applied — out of 150 to 200 that had been expected to seek licences. The rest face an orderly wind-down: firms...
The exploit, in briefStarknet ecosystem DeFi protocol Troves disclosed on November 1 that its xWBTC/WBTC vault suffered an exploit on October 31, with an initial loss of approximately 8.6 BTC. The attack was confined to that vault, and other vaults have not been affected so far, the team said. The cause, in Troves' own telling, is the kind of detail that should worry every DeFi user: a legacy...
The call is where the report comes aliveEvery earnings season, millions of investors read the same headline — revenue beat, earnings missed, shares up or down — and still get surprised by the move. The reason is that the headline is only half the event. The other half is the earnings call: a live, usually hour-long conversation in which executives explain the quarter, analysts probe...