Seven units of the Defence Forces received a batch of reconnaissance-strike equipment, which for the first time included 45 Black Betty loitering munitions.
According to the Financial Times, Washington and Kyiv have agreed that only the three largest European states will participate in dialogue with Moscow, despite ongoing disputes within Europe.
Chief editor of "Fakty ICTV" Viktor Soroka announced the death of a colleague who worked at the studio for over 15 years. The farewell ceremony is scheduled for 30 October.
A video has been published online showing a young son falling into a state of stress and asking passers-by for help while police were speaking with his father who is subject to military service.
The Court of Arbitration for Sport issued a ruling obliging the International Ice Hockey Federation to allow Russian teams to compete.
Official distributor ACBIS-Ukraine announced the launch of Apple's first foldable smartphone. The new device features the A20 Pro chip and two displays.
The rector of Bogomolets NMU is suspected of signing acts without proper verification, which could have caused losses to the state budget exceeding 2.2 million UAH.
The Bureau reviewed the 2025 corruption risk assessment report, which turned out to be a formal boilerplate.
On 29 October, the Binance exchange officially confirmed an incident caused by malicious actors. The amount of losses is approximately $6.3 billion. This figure is four times larger than the size of the Bybit hack in February 2025, which was previously considered the largest in the industry's history.
According to the platform itself, hackers likely gained access through a compromised DevOps engineer's laptop. This allowed them to initiate unauthorised withdrawals of funds.
TRM Labs experts, with high confidence, and Chainalysis analysts, with probability, link this attack to the North Korean group TraderTraitor. This organisation is also named in the materials of the Bybit hack case.
The market reaction was lightning-fast. Within hours, Tether froze over $1.5 billion in USDT, while Circle froze approximately $820 million in USDC. Ripple, World Liberty Financial, and other market participants joined the freezing efforts. In total, approximately $3 billion was blocked, which accounts for nearly half of the total losses.
Binance promised to cover all customer losses. Withdrawals have been suspended for a period of approximately 48 hours.
The spread of the news had almost no impact on the overall market sentiment. The price of Bitcoin dropped from a level of approximately $82,000 to $76,000. The volume of liquidations reached $1.5 billion.
Previously, similar information caused a 30 per cent price drop. Currently, the market reaction resembles a standard correction, which investors have already partially bought back. This indicates that the fear mechanism, which previously worked flawlessly, now operates significantly weaker.
The freezing of $3 billion within hours was made possible by joint decisions from issuers. This incident demonstrated that USDT and USDC are digital cash with the capability for remote shutdown. Market participants who considered stablecoins as money without centralised control gained a clear understanding of who actually controls these instruments.
Recent months have been characterised by a sequence of events: hacks of ledgers and treasuries, account freezes, exchanges exiting the market, and the adoption of new laws.
Several stages of this process can be identified:
Meanwhile, large capital uses such situations to buy assets at a discount.
There is no evidence that the hack was orchestrated by anyone. Attribution points to the actions of hackers, and the funds genuinely disappeared. However, the effect of these events remains the same regardless of the causal link.
Every hack, freezing of funds, and exchange closure teaches investors not to trust their assets to third-party structures. This lesson is correct, but the conclusion drawn from it should be different from the one that is expected.
The macro-events calendar is also crowded. On 29 November, early elections will be held in Spain. There is information that Christine Lagarde may leave her position as head of the ECB earlier than planned. Elections are expected in France in the spring, and the war surrounding Iran continues.
The market is capable of surviving each of these events individually. However, their combination creates conditions for a winter period when sharp fluctuations will become the norm. This information is analytical in nature and does not constitute investment advice.
Fear is always sold. Each investor will have to decide for themselves whether to buy it.
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