Latest / Panic Drop Podcast / Fr 30/10 | Daily Crypto & Macro News
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- 0:02SPEAKER_01: Happy Friday all, and wow, what a night it has been.
- 0:05SPEAKER_01: The headline everyone is talking about is Binance,
- 0:08SPEAKER_01: the biggest crypto exchange in the world,
- 0:10SPEAKER_01: getting hacked,
- 0:11SPEAKER_01: with Chainalysis estimating close to $6 billion stolen,
- 0:16SPEAKER_01: nearly four times bigger than the previous record heist.
- 0:20SPEAKER_01: Binance says around $6.3 billion in crypto was impacted.
- 0:25SPEAKER_01: Roughly $3 billion is already frozen.
- 0:29SPEAKER_01: User funds remain safe and it will cover all losses.
- 0:33SPEAKER_01: Tether froze more than one $1.5 billion in USDT,
- 0:37SPEAKER_01: Circle froze $823 million in USDC,
- 0:42SPEAKER_01: and Aave and Camino hit the pause button on parts of their lending markets just
- 0:47SPEAKER_01: to be safe.
- 0:49SPEAKER_01: The market did not Bitcoin does not love it with more than $1.3 billion
- 0:53SPEAKER_01: in leverage longs wiped out in 5 hours and Bitcoin now sits around $78,200 down
- 0:59SPEAKER_01: about 2%.
- 0:59SPEAKER_01: Coinbase boss Brian Armstrong
- 1:05SPEAKER_01: We've reminded everyone that crypto always comes out stronger after tough times
- 1:09SPEAKER_01: and honestly the bigger picture still looks solid with Spot Bitcoin ETFs pulling
- 1:15SPEAKER_01: in 423 million over 3 sessions and Fidelity saying Bitcoin Over in stocks,
- 1:24SPEAKER_01: earnings season got brutal.
- 1:26SPEAKER_01: Alphabet crashed more than 13% at the open.
- 1:28SPEAKER_01: Heading for its worst day in over 20 years
- 1:31SPEAKER_01: as AI spending pushed free cash flow negative, Amazon slid 11%.
- 1:35SPEAKER_01: The U.S. economy grew 3.4% last quarter.
- 1:50SPEAKER_01: The inflation climbed to 3.6%,
- 1:52SPEAKER_01: so the Fed's headache is not going anywhere and over in Europe,
- 1:56SPEAKER_01: Christine Lagarde will step down from the ECB in February.
- 2:00SPEAKER_01: Ethereum is trading near 2,240, down about 3%,
- 2:05SPEAKER_01: While the real winner of the day was Hyperliquid,
- 2:08SPEAKER_01: jumping almost 17% to around $92 after the owner of
- 2:12SPEAKER_01: the New York Stock Exchange said it will bring Hyperliquid perpetual futures
- 2:17SPEAKER_01: to regulated US markets and even Elon Musk called the news interesting.
- 2:23SPEAKER_01: Polymarket also paused trading after a third-party provider was compromised,
- 2:28SPEAKER_01: promising to make users whole,
- 2:31SPEAKER_01: and Chainlink launched always on market data for tokenized stocks and commodities.
- 2:36SPEAKER_01: Solana sits near $97 and XRP around $1.25.
- 2:43SPEAKER_01: That is your recap for today.
- 2:45SPEAKER_01: If you enjoyed it, make sure to follow me, stay safe out there, and I will see you tomorrow.
- 2:53SPEAKER_00: Listen to the Panic Drop.
- 2:55[music]