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# What Actually Happened, Palate Cleanser
- URL: https://adjacent.media/scan/2026-10-30-pm/
- Published: 2026-10-30T23:17:18.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-30T23:17:18.000Z
- Description: Binance disclosed a $6.3 billion breach of its hot wallets—the largest crypto exchange hack on record. Wall Street, meanwhile, punished Big Tech earnings that beat expectations but failed to excite investors.
- Author: Jonathan Greene
- Tags: #scan-pm, #scan

Binance disclosed a $6.3 billion breach of its hot wallets—the largest crypto exchange hack on record. Wall Street, meanwhile, punished Big Tech earnings that beat expectations but failed to excite investors.

> **$6.3B** — The amount Binance says was drained from its hot wallets, the largest crypto hack ever recorded. *(MarketWatch)*

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