Crypto Pulse

PrefaceOn October 29, 2026, attackers drained about $6.3 billion from Binance's hot wallets, most of it in roughly 20 minutes. It is the largest crypto hack on record, according toCBS News, citing TRM Labs, and more than four times the $1.46 billion stolen from Bybit in 2025.Binance says its users will not pay. It says it will cover the loss from its own money and two reserve funds. The FBI says North Korea did it. But "who pays" is a bigger question than one company's promise. It also d

1.Executive SummaryCrypto markets ended October under pressure, with Bitcoin recording another difficult week as institutional demand weakened and a major security incident added to investor concerns.Bitcoin finished the month around $78,000, down approximately 7.6% in October. It remains considerably below its October 2025 record of $126,080. The broader crypto market also struggled, losing an estimated $360 billion in October and ending the month with a market capitalization of approximately $

Overview Trading at $76,879.82 USD as of November 3, 2026 at 17:32 SGT (09:32 UTC), Bitcoin (BTC) holds a Q4 2026 structural range anchored by the $75,820.00 Short-Term Holder Realized Price on the downside and the $85,000.00 to $87,500.00 supply wall on the upside, while institutional targets span $100,000.00 (Standard Chartered year-end 2026), $113,000.00 (Citigroup 12-month target to October 2027), and $150,000.00 (Bernstein mid-2027) before scaling toward $500,000.00 to $760,000.00 by 2030;

Overview Trading between $604.60 and $613.61 across global spot feeds as of November 2 to November 3, 2026, Monero (XMR) holds a late-2026 base forecast range of $555.00 to $621.00 (with a bullish breakout target at $656.74 and the January 2026 record daily close of $713.44) alongside a 2027 to 2030 trajectory climbing from $621.60 to $719.68 on the back of sub-0.84% annual tail-emission inflation and the Full-Chain Membership Proofs (FCMP++) upgrade; traders positioning in XMR on MEXC c

Overview In Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH) perpetual futures execution, MEXC ranks first among nine major exchanges in 0.03% near-touch order book depth at $21.03 million and delivers the lowest-tier ETH futures slippage at 0.003% ($15.00 cost) on $500,000 sells and 0.008% ($80.00 cost) on $1,000,000 sells, whereas Binance leads wide-band depth at ±1% (100 basis points) and posts lower tail slippage on $1,000,000 BTC futures sells (P90 of 0.010%, or $100.00). According to the Crypto Exchange L

Overview Bitmine Immersion Technologies' position of 6,060,506 ETH (valued at approximately $13.70 billion at $2,261 per token) means the company has converted its balance sheet into a heavily locked Ethereum yield vehicle with 86.25% (5,227,037 ETH) committed to staking for a projected $358 million annualized run-rate, whereas market participants trading ETH directly on MEXC retain 24/7 instant liquidity with 0% maker and 0% taker fees and zero exposure to validator unstaking queues or equity n

1. Today's Market: The Nasdaq Fell 1.07% and the Dow Rose 0.41% as Chip Stocks Fell BroadlyUnit: %, single-day change on November 2; the readings span positive and negative, so a zero line is drawn and all three share one scale. The Dow reads +0.41%, the S&P 500 −0.50% and the Nasdaq −1.07%. The three indexes went two ways: the Dow closed at 51,984, the S&P 500 at about 7,542 and the Nasdaq at 25,164, with the Dow finishing 1.48 percentage points ahead of the Nasdaq. The Nasdaq technology se

The AI supply chain landed in four layers on November 2, with four of seven items carrying a figure for a combined $142.32B, the largest single day since this series began. Marvell (Ticker: MRVL) and Lumentum (Ticker: LITE) signed a $115.0B all-stock combination in which no cash moves at all. On the same day Oracle and Alphabet each went to the capital markets, while Anthropic's amended S-1 finally filled in its total compute commitment. AI Supply Chain in Six Layers Today's AI BriefsLayer 1 Mod

Marvell Technology (NASDAQ: MRVL) shares fell 12.72% to $171.41 on November 2, 2026, while Lumentum (NASDAQ: LITE) dropped 18.59% to $684.40, after the companies announced a $115 billion all-stock acquisition agreement.The selloff came despite Lumentum reporting strong quarterly earnings and securing more than $5 billion in purchase commitments for advanced optical technologies.The key issue is the deal's structure: Lumentum shareholders will receive 4.5 Marvell shares for each LITE share, meani

I. Macro & Market Sentiment· Market Data: BTC $77,003.00 (-1.68%) | ETH $2,254.67 (-1.48%) | SOL $92.17 (-2.78%)· Market Sentiment: Funding Rate +0.0100% | Fear & Greed Index 26 (Fear)· Elections: The U.S. midterm elections are being held today. Goldman Sachs estimates that Democrats have a greater than 90% chance of winning a House majority, while control of the Senate remains uncertain. Further Reading· Geopolitics: After Iran signaled openness to negotiations, Trump said he was not consid