He Yi: Viral online rumor that a Binance engineer is in a romantic relationship with a North Korean agent is untrue

According to a notification from the U.S. Secret Service, the agency is still investigating the theft of more than $6 billion in cryptocurrency from Binance. Within minutes of the incident, Secret Service investigators collaborated with industry partners to identify and freeze a large portion of the stolen crypto. The Secret Service noted that the investigation remains ongoing, with participating agencies including the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Criminal Investigation Division of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), and relevant departments of the U.S. Department of Justice.

According to Yu Ember's monitoring, 10 minutes ago, an on-chain address spent 34.69 million USDC to purchase 15,216 ETH at an average price of approximately $2,279. The USDC utilized for the buy was only withdrawn from Kraken this morning.

According to Bitget market data, South Korea’s KOSPI index turned positive after falling more than 1.5% earlier. SK Hynix rose 0.7%, while Samsung Electronics fell 1%.

According to Bitget market data, Kioxia’s Japanese stock plunged around 14%.

THORChain has issued a statement noting that on October 31, Ethereum experienced a single block reorg, which led the protocol to mistakenly pay out 10 ETH that never actually landed in its reserves. The protocol’s automatic solvency check mechanism triggered immediately, pausing ETH swaps. Within roughly two minutes, node operators further suspended ETH transaction signing to prevent additional fund outflows. As a preventive measure, nodes subsequently paused transactions across all related chains to allow the core development team to conduct an investigation. The 10 ETH in question has since been voluntarily returned by users, and the vault has restored solvency. Currently, transactions on AVAX, BASE, RUNE, and XRPL remain active; suspended blockchains include ATOM, BCH, BSC, BTC, DOGE, ETH, LTC, SOL, TRON, and ZEC. The core development team is advancing relevant fixes, and node operators will decide whether to reactivate the affected chains after confirming their security. THORChain emphasized that the emergency pause mechanism is controlled by node votes and does not grant nodes authority over assets.

On-chain analyst and Security Alliance (SEAL) contributor SomaXBT stated that North Korean hackers laundered approximately $242 million in stolen Binance funds over two days. Meanwhile, the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is pressing platforms including THORChain to block the relevant transactions. SomaXBT added that the stolen funds were transferred via multiple cryptocurrency cross-chain bridges: Relay processed $48 million in outflows, THORChain handled $44 million, Chainflip $32.1 million, and Symbiosis $16 million, totaling around $140 million. The final destination of these funds remains unconfirmed.