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Rumor vs record: a viral post credited to Musk said Binance holds 80% of crypto. It does not
A viral post credited to Elon Musk said Binance holds about 80% of the crypto market and urged users to leave. We checked each line against CoinGecko's exchange data and DeepSea's wallet tracker. The 80% figure does not hold up.
MEXC's tracked wallets shed $166 million before FinCEN's order. Then MX fell 6%
DeepSea's MEXC wallets fell from $1.08 billion to about $918 million between November 5 and early November 6, before FinCEN moved against the exchange. They have barely moved since, and the data does not show why.
Rumor vs record: what viral posts got right and wrong about the U.S. move against MEXC
Posts about FinCEN's MEXC order spread fast on November 6 and 7, 2026. We checked each claim against FinCEN's own order. Most numbers hold up; two points do not.
FinCEN cuts MEXC off from U.S. banks over $16.7 billion in likely illicit flows
The U.S. Treasury's FinCEN ordered U.S. financial institutions on November 6, 2026, to stop sending funds to or receiving funds from MEXC Global. The ban starts 30 days after the order runs in the Federal Register.
A Nasdaq-listed HYPE holder wants to be a US futures broker. HYPE is down 15% in a week
Nasdaq-listed Hyperliquid Strategies says a subsidiary has applied to become a futures commission merchant, a step toward offering Hyperliquid perps to US customers. It also booked a $620.6 million quarterly profit, nearly all of it paper gains on HYPE.
Exchange wallets lost $11.45 billion in 18 hours. Mostly price, not withdrawals
DeepSea's exchange list shrank 4.7% as bitcoin fell about 6%. Binance's holdings dropped $6.84 billion, and MEXC fell 15.8%, the steepest among large exchanges.
Seized UK government wallets rank seventh on DeepSea's exchange list, at $3.95 billion
DeepSea's exchange rankings mix trading venues with seized and long-silent wallets, including $574.14 million in failed QuadrigaCX's. Bitfinex ranks second at $31.27 billion, and one Coincheck wallet holds $3.42 billion.
Binance's 7-day flow on DeepSea: a $1.55 billion net outflow after last week's $5.04B inflow
Last week's DeepSea report showed money pouring into Binance. Its live seven-day count now shows $4.54 billion leaving and $3.00 billion arriving.
MEXC took in a net $107.6 million in seven days, more than any other exchange
Among the exchanges DeepSea tracks, MEXC topped the seven-day inflow table while OKX, Gate, Bybit and Bitget all saw net outflows.
Robinhood's $14.9 billion ranks third on DeepSea. One cold wallet holds $11.27 billion of it
DeepSea's exchanges list puts Robinhood's labeled wallets behind only Binance and Bitfinex. A single Bitcoin cold wallet holds about three-quarters of the total.
OKX logged three times Binance's transfer count last week and lost a net $241.6 million
DeepSea's exchange data shows 451,046 transfers at OKX from October 26 to November 1, with almost twice as many withdrawals as deposits. Bybit went the other way, with a net $478.2 million coming in.
Asia's local exchanges handled just 1.3% of flows as Binance took in a net $5.04 billion
South Korea led the local markets with $12.5 million net in. Upbit, HashKey, Bitkub and other home-market exchanges together handled about $538 million of deposits and withdrawals from October 26 to November 1, DeepSea's data shows.
PEPE and SHIB flowed into US and European exchanges as $120 million in bitcoin left
DeepSea's weekly data shows Western exchanges nearly flat overall, at minus $54.98 million. Under the surface, memecoins were deposited, bitcoin was withdrawn, Kraken lost 1,526 BTC and one $399.78 million USDC transfer left Coinbase.
$255 million in USDT left Asian exchanges in a week. Gold tokens, USDe and RLUSD moved in
DeepSea's weekly data shows Asian exchanges losing USDT and USDT0 while tokenized gold and smaller dollar tokens arrived. In the last 24 hours, one shark wallet traded $47.8 million of RLUSD on Ethereum.
Binance took in a net 66,386 bitcoin, worth $5.2 billion, in the week it was hacked
DeepSea's data shows a net $5.04 billion flowing into Binance from October 26 to November 1, almost all of Asia's net inflow. Who sent it? The data cannot say.
BNB just burned $1.2 billion of itself. Why is 100 million still years away?
The 37th quarterly auto-burn destroyed 1,646,196 BNB on October 19, the most coins of any burn this year. Supply is now 131.5 million BNB, still 31.5 million above the long-term target.
Binance took in 18,435 BTC in two weeks while $6.81 billion in stablecoins walked out
DeepSea's data shows about $1.5 billion in bitcoin flowing into Binance in early October, just as billions in USDT left. Kraken saw the opposite, and the price fell anyway.
Asian exchanges lost $11.95 billion in three weeks, most of it USDT leaving Binance
DeepSea's data shows a steady stablecoin exodus from Asian exchanges starting September 28, weeks before Binance was hacked. Western exchanges barely moved, while smaller dollar tokens began to swing.
OKX's 48th reserve report shows $29.4 billion, up 27% in three months, with BTC at 110%
OKX marked four years of monthly proof-of-reserves reports on October 30. Its primary assets rose from $23.1 billion in July to $29.4 billion, and every listed coin is backed at least 1:1. Here is what the report proves and what it leaves out.
Coinbase made $719 million in Q3. Almost all of it came from its own crypto pile
Coinbase swung from a $359 million loss to a $719 million profit, but $715 million of that was a paper gain on crypto it holds. Retail spot trading volume fell 59% in a year, while prediction markets passed $200 million a year in revenue.
Galaxy earned $323 million in Q3, mostly on its own holdings. Trading still lost money
Mike Novogratz's Galaxy turned an $85 million Q2 loss into a $323 million Q3 profit and approved another $200 million buyback. Most of the gain came from its own investments, while data centers became a steady earner.
Robinhood's crypto revenue fell 55%. Prediction markets now earn it more
Robinhood posted record revenue of $1.42 billion in Q3 2026, but crypto revenue sank to $120 million. Bets on events brought in $173 million, and its new blockchain says it collected more than $50 million in fees in its first quarter.
Why is Bitget buying a Thai exchange that lost 74 million baht last year?
Bitget wants GMO-Z.com Cryptonomics, a tiny Bangkok platform with 11 million baht in yearly sales but a Thai license. The price is secret, and GMO filed the sale on the same day Bitget was hacked.
Kraken's owner is buying a bank in Lithuania. What does that unlock in the EU?
Payward agreed to buy Saldo Bank, a digital lender licensed in Lithuania and active in four EU markets. If regulators approve, Kraken's parent could offer Europeans deposits, loans and cards from its own bank.
Korea's crypto exchanges lost a third of their market in six months. Profits fell 78%
Official KoFIU data for the first half of 2026 shows market value, trading and won deposits all collapsing, with a 69% peak-to-trough drop that was worse than the stock market's. Exchange profits took the biggest hit.
Nasdaq will put $100 million into Kraken's parent, with tokenized stocks due in 2027
Nasdaq's venture arm is backing Payward, and the two plan to link Nasdaq Equity Tokens, due in the second quarter of 2027, with Kraken's xStocks. Payward will also adopt Nasdaq's market surveillance technology.
Kraken's parent plugs into SoFi: 24/7 dollar settlement and a bank-issued stablecoin
SoFi will route some crypto trades for its 15.8 million members through Kraken Prime, and Kraken will list SoFiUSD, a stablecoin issued by SoFi Bank. Kraken's institutional clients also get dollars that settle at any hour, weekends included.