Money 💰 Crypto & Finance

🚨 JUST IN: Record $6.3 BILLION Binance hack now linked to North Korea — US Secret Service steps in 🔹 Blockchain analysts tie it to DPRK hackers; over $3B already frozen 🔹 Secret Service working with Circle to trace & recover funds; Binance says user funds are safe 💰 @money

📉 BREAKING: Gold falls 2% to $3,939.65/oz — its lowest level since November 2025 🔹 Silver plunges 5.3% to $49.63, breaking below $50 for the first time since Nov 2025 🔹 Comes as US 10-year Treasury yield drops ~6bps to 4.93% after US data 💰 @money

🚨 BREAKING: Binance hit by suspected $5.7 BILLION hack — potentially the largest in crypto history 🔹 Funds drained across BTC, ETH & TRON; Tether and Circle froze ~$2.37B in USDT/USDC 🔹 CZ: user funds are safe and expected to be fully covered; Binance investigating 💰 @money

🚨 BREAKING: Polymarket halts trading after a third-party provider is compromised 🔹 Users report stolen funds, some claiming losses of hundreds of thousands of dollars 🔹 Polymarket says the issue is fixed and affected users will be made whole 💰 @money

🇦🇪 JUST IN: Dubai royal-backed firm unveils $1.5 billion Bitcoin strategy 🔹 Standard Asset Company pairs BTC with UAE real estate under one mandate 🔹 Coinbase Asset Management named exclusive manager for its Bitcoin holdings 💰 @money

🇺🇸 JUST IN: US Q3 GDP grows 3.4% as PCE inflation hits 3.6% 🔹 Growth beats 3.2% forecast, accelerating from 2.2% in Q2 🔹 Sticky inflation keeps Fed hike bets alive after yesterday's hold 💰 @money

📉 BREAKING: Google stock crashes over 7% after Q3 revenue miss 🔹 Revenue $127.58B missed estimates; Cloud beat but Services & Search missed 🔹 Shares tumble after hours as Big Tech earnings rattle markets 💰 @money

🇺🇸 BREAKING: Fed holds rates at 3.75%–4.00% — Warsh: inflation is "too high" 🔹 Decision 10–2; Cook & Hammack dissented for a 25bp hike 🔹 Traders price an 86% chance of a December hike (CME FedWatch) 💰 @money

🇧🇷 JUST IN: Brazil's largest bank Itaú Unibanco becomes first to offer regulated crypto trading & custody 🔹 Formalized under new central bank rules; offers 15 assets incl. BTC, ETH, SOL 🔹 Opens Bitcoin trading & custody to ~98.5M bank customers 💰 @money

🇹🇭 JUST IN: Thailand's Supreme Court rules Bitcoin is legal property 🔹 Full-bench ruling in a robbery case where a victim was forced to send 2.48 BTC (~$50K) 🔹 Court says BTC has market value and can be owned — property, not legal tender 💰 @money

🇺🇸 JUST IN: US national debt hits a new all-time high of $40.5 TRILLION 🔹 Record lands a week before the Nov. 3 midterms, with affordability a top voter issue 🔹 Markets shrug: Nasdaq 100 +1.3% ahead of the Fed decision, Bitcoin back above $81,000 💰 @money

🇺🇸 BREAKING: The TRUMP administration now holds stakes in 40 companies 🔹 Intel & GlobalFoundries grants were turned into government equity 🔹 Pentagon deal gave Washington warrants for up to 7.5% of Wolfspeed 💰 @money

📉 BREAKING: China's STAR 50 tech index has CRASHED 40% since June 🔹 Reuters reports China's AI bubble has "burst" as the bear market deepens 🔹 Morgan Stanley warns Chinese stocks face further losses before they bottom 💰 @money

🇮🇷 BREAKING: Iran's Supreme Leader calls for meeting conditions to END THE WAR 🔹 Comes after CNN reported US forces could strike within 96 hours of a TRUMP order 🔹 Hormuz still tense: Iran's navy says an "offending" tanker caught fire after hitting mines 💰 @money

🚨 JUST IN: Saylor’s Strategy pauses Bitcoin buys — spends $205M on preferred stock buybacks 🔹 Holdings flat at 848,517 BTC; no buys or sales Oct 19–25 🔹 Repurchased 2.07M STRC shares; still holds $5.1B in USD assets 💰 @money

🇺🇸 BREAKING: US forces ready to launch major strikes on Iran within 96 hours of a TRUMP order, per CNN 🔹 US official warns Iran: change behavior or face "mission completion"; Tehran vows to respond in kind 🔹 Oil on edge: Brent settles at $115.81, WTI at $101.76 💰 @money

🚨 JUST IN: Microsoft offers buyouts to 60,000 workers amid AI spending boom 🔹 Voluntary exits for ~60K staff across US, Canada, India & UK as it reshapes for AI 🔹 Cost cuts while Big Tech redirects billions into AI infrastructure 💰 @money

🇧🇷 BREAKING: Brazil markets crash after Lula wins — Bovespa futures down nearly 20% 🔹 Brazilian real slumps more than 8% in spot trading 🔹 JPMorgan downgrades the real & local bonds to neutral, sovereign bonds to underweight 💰 @money

🚨 BREAKING: Elon Musk confirms SpaceX closed $40 billion in debt to buy AI chips 🔹 GPU deliveries eyed for Q1–Q2 2027; SpaceX Q3 revenue hit $14.58B (+161% YoY) 🔹 Capex nearly tripled to $19.6B as the company races to expand AI infrastructure 💰 @money

📉 JUST IN: Bitcoin and gold are 2026's worst major assets — a historic first 🔹 BTC -7.3% YTD, gold -7.5% through Oct 23 (Charlie Bilello) 🔹 First calendar year both ranked at the bottom together 💰 @money