☕️ US Spot Bitcoin ETFs Lose $643M Following $6.4B Binance Breach Crypto investment products faced heavy daily redemptions following a multibillion-dollar exchange exploit, while tokenized equity venues encountered corporate resistance.
1. Spot Bitcoin ETFs bleed $643M as Binance exploit sparks institutional pullback — US spot $BTC ETFs logged $643.2 million in daily net outflows on Friday, marking their steepest daily redemptions of October after a $6.4 billion breach hit Binance. 2. Binance exploiters transfer funds to Solana after routing $500M through Tron — Attacker wallets behind the Binance breach funneled stolen funds to $SOL after laundering $500 million across more than 1,000 $TRX network addresses. 3. Corporate opt-outs on OKX-ICE tokenized stock platform reach 50 equity symbols — Nvidia joined corporate objectors opposing inclusion on the planned venue, leaving only 19 of the initial 63 planned equity listings without a public opt-out. 4. MENA crypto market holds at $443B as UAE expands and Türkiye trades gold tokens — The regional digital asset economy dipped 1.4%, but UAE market volume surged 32% to $104.8 billion while local bans drove Turkish demand for tokenized gold. 5. Swell protocol unpauses swETH and rswETH withdrawals after exchange rate reset — The liquid staking provider restored user redemptions following an exchange rate incident, keeping direct deposits paused while promising restitution within a week.
📊 $BTC traded at $77,790 while crypto market cap fell 1.0% to $2.58 trillion as Fear & Greed stood at 34.
