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Here’s how an Ethereum upgrade helped drain part of Binance’s $6 billion loss

CoinDeskFriday, October 30, 2026 at 11:35 AM

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Here’s how an Ethereum upgrade helped drain part of Binance’s $6 billion loss
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On Ethereum, the attacker used a 2025 upgrade built to make ordinary wallets smarter, armed with 50 signatures from Binance's own wallet.

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Impact
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Category
Crypto
Market relevance
High
Why it matters
Crypto moves are a live stress test of liquidity, regulation, and narrative risk. On Ethereum, the attacker used a 2025 upgrade built to make ordinary wallets smarter, armed with 50 signatures from Binance's own wallet. Watch liquidity and volatility around Ethereum and Here — crypto markets reprice narrative risk quickly.
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What happened

On Ethereum, the attacker used a 2025 upgrade built to make ordinary wallets smarter, armed with 50 signatures from Binance's own wallet.

Why it matters

Crypto moves are a live stress test of liquidity, regulation, and narrative risk.

Background

CoinDesk reported on this under crypto. RedScroll surfaces the signal with an extractive brief — not a reprint of the original article. Read the source for full reporting.

Timeline

  1. CoinDesk published: Here’s how an Ethereum upgrade helped drain part of Binance’s $6 billion loss

  2. Story is in today’s RedScroll edition. Follow the original source for updates.

Economic impact

Watch liquidity and volatility around Ethereum and Here — crypto markets reprice narrative risk quickly.

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