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Crypto is up 2.6% in the last 24 hours

Crypto is recovering, with BTC at $80,194.20 (+2.3%), ETH at $2,416.44 (+3.9%), SOL up 3.1% and XRP up 2.4% over 24 hours. Spot bitcoin ETF flows turned positive on November 4 at +$74.6M after -$115.6M the day before.

BTC+1.8%$79,624
ETH+3.4%$2,391
SOL+2.8%$95.11
XRP+2.1%$1.30
BTC ETFsUS session+$75Mnet flow, Nov 4

News mood

Leaning bearish 19% bullish · 50% bearish

What's happening

The dominant driver is the fallout from the $5.7 billion Binance hack, the largest to date, which initially pushed bitcoin back to $79,000 before Binance pledged to cover losses and said withdrawals would resume within 48 hours 12. Institutional selling added pressure, as BlackRock sold $405M of bitcoin amid IBIT redemptions 3. US midterm results favored Democrats, with BTC edging lower and S&P 500 futures down 0.6% as votes were counted 4. In politics, the crypto PAC Fairshake won 29 of 34 decided races 5.

The biggest stories

The investigator says funds withdrawn from multiple exchange accounts were being swapped into ETH and routed through instant exchanges, Monero and cross-chain bridges....

  • The Defiant
  • Crypto Briefing
  • BeInCrypto
  • Unchained
  • CryptoPotato
  • CoinDesk
  • +8 more

First: The Defiant · 14 outlets · latest 40m ago

South Korea’s ruling Democratic Party lawmakers have agreed to recommend another postponement of the country’s cryptocurrency income tax, with a two-year delay until 2029 emerging as the preferred option.

  • crypto.news
  • The Defiant
  • Crypto Briefing
  • The Block
  • CoinDesk
  • Unchained
  • +5 more

First: crypto.news · 11 outlets · latest 1h ago

Markets

Leaning bullish 45% bullish · 19% bearish

Bitcoin

Leaning bullish 66% bullish · 20% bearish

Trump Media-linked wallets moved 4,259 BTC to Crypto.com, equal to about 30% of the bitcoin treasury disclosed for July 31 6.

Ethereum

Leaning bullish 100% bullish · 0% bearish

Altcoins

Leaning bullish 72% bullish · 9% bearish

XRP millionaire wallets hit their highest count of 2026 despite price weakness, while a whale built a $14 million Zcash long ahead of the NU7 hard fork and Polygon proposed a hard fork to recover 70.49 million POL 789.

Crypto stocks

Leaning bullish 68% bullish · 19% bearish

  • COIN$152+4.2%
  • MSTR$143+5.1%
  • HOOD$87.41+2.0%
  • CRCL$76.12+1.2%
  • MARA$6.87-4.1%
  • IBIT$45.33+2.9%

Riot Platforms posted $181.4M in Q3 revenue and signed a $28B Corsicana lease, American Bitcoin Corp. reported a quarterly profit, and Block faces a $764 million DOJ settlement as its bitcoin profit halved 101112.

Countries

Regulation

Mixed 50% bullish · 39% bearish

South Korea lawmakers are pushing for another crypto tax delay until 2029, Hong Kong passed OECD crypto tax reporting rules effective 2027, and Arkansas joined lawsuits against Kalshi over illegal gambling 131415.

Geopolitics & macro

Mixed 2% bullish · 16% bearish

DeFi

Mixed 25% bullish · 25% bearish

Security

Leaning bearish 0% bullish · 84% bearish

The Binance hack involved $6.4 billion in stolen funds undergoing automated laundering, Coinbase disclosed that over 99% of customer crypto sits in cold storage, BitMart confirmed a hack linked to the Mercado Bitcoin attack, and Binance revoked SignalPlus API keys after a security warning 16171819.

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