Crypto news for October 31, 2026: bitcoin +0.32%, coins in the bot: 6. The top market stories – below.
Crypto news for October 31, 2026 that affects the whole market: regulators, the Fed, exchanges, funds – with bitcoin's reaction.
Judging by the headline, major crypto exchanges are closing or restricting accounts of users from Russia. The article text is not available, so the details, timing and scale are unknown. For the market as a whole this may mean narrower access to trading for Russians, but the exact effect cannot be assessed from the headline.
According to the WatcherGuru account on X, the Moscow Exchange will offer crypto trading in all trading sessions from December 1 under new legislation. This concerns the market as a whole, not a single coin. The source is not official, so the information should be checked against primary data.
Private credit funds can book interest as income even if the borrower has not actually paid it, since some agreements allow interest to be added to the debt. Banks, meanwhile, are effectively lending these funds about $349 billion. For the crypto market this is a general financial risk, not news about a specific coin.
The headline is about proposed rules from the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and what opportunities they could give crypto traders. The article text is not available, so the specific terms and details are unknown. This is a media channel's opinion, not an official regulatory decision.
Two strangers befriended Magnus Ahmad outside a bar in London. Within a few hours the criminals drained his crypto wallets, got access to his bank accounts and disabled his laptop. The story describes a personal theft and the broader problem of street crypto thefts in London.
Attackers took control of twelve websites of DeFi (decentralized finance) projects because all these domains were registered through Name.com. According to The Block, registry records point to a compromise, and about $138,000 was stolen. For the market as a whole this is a reminder of domain and web infrastructure risks, not a problem with blockchains themselves.
Binance published its second update on the security incident. The text says the team is working on the investigation, infrastructure updates, preventing losses and recovering funds, and sums up the last 24 hours. The text gives no specific amounts, scale of damage or new technical details.
According to CertiK, the crypto industry has lost a record $9.2 billion to hacks and scams since the start of 2026. October was the worst month: 89 incidents totaling $6.5 billion, of which about $3.03 billion was frozen or recovered, so the adjusted loss for the month was $3.47 billion. The story shows that security remains a serious problem in the industry, but it is a general overview, not an event involving a specific coin.
Two brothers from Texas were sentenced to 15 years. They held a Minnesota family at gunpoint for nine hours, demanding $8 million in crypto. For the market this is news about crime and justice, not price movement: the text has no data on the impact on coins.
Coinbase says the option is available only in the Coinbase app in the US, except Michigan and Nevada. Futures and swaps are issued by Coinbase Financial Markets, a CFTC and NFA member. The text warns of the risk of losing all funds, says it is not investment advice and that payouts depend on specific events. The story is a legal notice and contains no new market or price data.
NYSE owner ICE previously asked US regulators to restrict Hyperliquid, and now plans to give US retail traders access to Hyperliquid-based perpetual contracts through Trade[XYZ]. A perpetual contract is a derivative that trades without an expiry date. Users on X also noticed a deleted tweet on the matter, which points to a mixed picture around the topic. The source is media, not an official company statement.
Analytics firm Chainalysis found that an attacker gained access to its internal systems and tools using so-called "agentic techniques". According to the company, names, email addresses and other customer data may have been affected. The company has not yet found signs of access to investigation materials.
Analytics firm Chainalysis, which tracks crypto flows, reported a cyber incident. According to the company, some non-secret customer data was exposed: user IDs, names and email addresses. For the market as a whole this is a reminder of data security risks at crypto industry companies, but the story does not directly concern price moves.
On October 30, stock markets fell sharply: the S&P 500 by 1.8%, the Nasdaq-100 by 3.5%, gold fell about 3.5% and silver 6%. The main blow fell on Intel, whose shares dropped 28.6% after a disappointing earnings forecast and a warning of a weak PC market until mid-2027. The text has no direct data on crypto, but a general sell-off of risk assets usually affects the crypto market as well.
A ForkLog video episode covers several topics: the Binance hack, bitcoin's reaction to the Fed's rhetoric, Ripple getting a banking license, the threat of AI cloud bankruptcies, IBM's modular quantum networks and the limits of AI in logistics. XRP is mentioned in the context of Ripple and its banking license, but the text does not really cover news about the coin itself. For XRP this is a general market overview rather than an event that directly changes the coin.
Analytics firm Chainalysis, which tracks blockchain transactions, said an outside hacker gained unauthorized access to its internal systems and tools. According to the company, some not particularly sensitive customer data was compromised: user IDs, full names, email addresses and role labels within organizations. The company stressed that the incident is not related to its blockchain products.
According to Binance's preliminary data, the attacker got into its infrastructure through a DevOps engineer's laptop and sent unauthorized withdrawal requests. Together with partners, the exchange has already frozen about $3 billion, and customer assets, it says, are safe; losses will be covered from the SAFU fund and its own reserves. For the market this is a major negative signal about the risks of centralized exchanges, although the story itself concerns one exchange.
From December 1, 2026, Westpac bank may combine payments to certain crypto exchanges from all linked accounts and payment methods under a single monthly limit. This caps how much money customers can send to such exchanges and is tied to anti-fraud rules.
ForkLog collected the week's main cybersecurity news: the fake Padre Terminal app in the App Store was linked to the theft of $23,000 from Solana wallets, decoy ChatGPT and Claude apps secretly mined Monero, and a self-taught hacker was arrested in South Korea after attacking 90 organizations. It also reports that a closed Claude model helped build working exploits for Chrome, Safari and Linux. For the market as a whole this is a reminder of security risks, but the story has no data on a specific price reaction.
According to the title and short description of the video, the crypto market as a whole lost about $300 billion in October, even though an "Uptober", a month of growth, had been expected. The text gives no exact reasons, so there are no details here on how the decline happened.
Senator Cynthia Lummis said the CLARITY Act would allow crypto companies to legally freeze funds at the request of law enforcement, including in a case like the $6.3 billion Binance hack. The bill stalled in the Senate after a 49 to 50 vote. The story concerns market regulation in general, not a single coin.
Security firm Blockaid detected attacks on the frontends (web interfaces) of the Flap and Kintsu projects, and then found 10 more sites distributing the Step Drainer tool for stealing funds from wallets. Both projects confirmed DNS hijacking (redirecting a site's address to a fake one) and warned users not to visit the sites or connect wallets. The investigation is ongoing.
Late October saw a sharp sell-off on Wall Street: about $2 trillion was wiped off the Nasdaq-100 amid doubts over whether huge AI spending will pay off. Tech stocks fell the most: Intel by almost 29%, Reddit by 29%, and Alphabet lost more than $500 billion. For crypto the story is not directly about coins, but overall stock market sentiment can also affect the crypto market.
Michael Saylor and Phong Le answered analysts' questions after Strategy's earnings report: about digital credit, Stretch (STRC) perpetual preferred shares and bitcoin financing. The story contains no new financial figures, so it is hard to judge the specific market impact. This is a discussion of company strategy, not an event that changes the market itself.
Anxiety around the artificial intelligence boom pushed the Nasdaq 100 down about 10% in the three weeks since its October 6 record, including a 4.5% drop on Friday. According to the report, OpenAI is also scaling back its fundraising plans and target valuation. For the crypto market this signals a general decline in risk appetite, since crypto often moves together with tech stocks.
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The overview is built from news that affects the whole market: regulators, the Fed, exchanges, large funds. It includes stories that at least two sources wrote about, and official messages. The reaction is shown for bitcoin – the market's main coin. News of individual coins for this day is on the coin pages.
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