EP 4
CZ Addresses Hardware Reseller Breach as Markets Steady
In this episode
Crypto markets traded slightly higher with Bitcoin at $83,512 and BNB at $751.90, while the Fear & Greed Index slipped to 61 (Greed). Binance announced multiple activities alongside delistings from Binance Alpha and monitoring tags for BICO and CVC, while BSC TVL climbed 0.85% to $5.61B. On social media, CZ responded to reports of hardware wallet tampering via authorized resellers and reacted to claims of paid anti-Binance campaigns.
- CZ posted about a reported hack involving malicious spy chips inserted into Ledger wallets via a compromised authorized reseller in Malaysia.
- BNB is trading at $752.25 ($751.90) with a 0.2% 24-hour gain, while BSC total value locked reached $5.61B ($5,605,031,863), up 0.85% on the day.
- Binance Alpha announced the removal of 14 tokens including SUP, CUDIS, PYTHIA, BLUM, and VRA on 2026-10-09.
- Binance extended its Monitoring Tag to include BICO and CVC.
- The XRP Ledger patched an overflow bug in its payment engine that could have allowed minting roughly 18 trillion XRP in a single transaction.
- Bitcoin traded at $83,512.01 (+0.57%) and Ethereum at $2,528.84 (+0.77%), despite crypto ETFs reporting sustained net outflows in early October.
- CKB led market gainers with a 43.66% surge to $0.002073, while MUBARAK led losers with a 4.01% drop to $0.07205.
- An IMF analysis revealed tokenized stocks represent a roughly $2.3B market with over half of trading taking place outside U.S. market hours.