Cointime update: SignalPlus said on Nov. 5 that a cyberattack in the early hours of Nov. 4 caused total losses of less than $82,000, with affected users to be fully reimbursed. The attackers took over a third-party vendor contact’s Telegram account, sent a fake Microsoft Teams meeting invite and infected an engineer’s device to breach the internal network. SignalPlus said it blocked the attack, had partner exchanges disable all associated API keys and paused services for a security review, expecting a phased restoration within days.
Cointime update: Polygon governance proposal PIP-93 would consolidate its existing security council and multisig structure and let Polygon Labs propose bridge and staking contract upgrades through a separate multisig, subject to a 7-day delay. The new security council would have 11 signers from 10 institutions with an 8-of-11 threshold, able to cancel queued transactions and propose and immediately execute changes. A Polygon Labs operations multisig with a 5-of-9 threshold could not bypass the upgrade delay. The proposal remains a draft, with details due at a November 5 governance call.
Cointime update: Samsung Wallet has rolled out USDC stablecoin accounts for eligible US Galaxy users, letting them buy, hold, send and receive USDC directly on Solana without a separate crypto wallet or private-key management. The service, backed by custodian Bastion and Coinbase, is expected to reach about 82 million compatible Galaxy devices in the US. Transfers to other Samsung Wallet users and compatible external wallets are free, credit-card top-ups carry a 4% fee, and New York residents are excluded for now.
Cointime reports: DeFi blogger Ignas (@DefiIgnas) said Polymarket’s trading volume has been roughly flat all year despite the recent midterm elections, while active wallets, open interest and trade counts are all declining. Election-related volume is tiny compared with sports and crypto markets and users are mostly speculators, making perpetual futures attractive to Polymarket, he said, adding he would rather the platform improve its prediction-market product and leave perps to HL, Lighter and Variational. Kalshi was excluded from his data due to anomalous wash-trading figures.
Cointime reports: The attacker behind the CryptoBilis Ledger exploit deposited a total of about 885 ETH, worth roughly $2.14 million, into Tornado Cash, on-chain tracker Lookonchain reported on Nov. 5. The transfers route the exploit proceeds through the sanctioned mixing service, obscuring the trail of the funds.
Cointime update: Backpack founder and CEO Armani Ferrante said on the Rollup podcast on Nov. 5 that rebuilding ETFs like SPY with onchain smart contracts could cut fees to 1 basis point or even zero, versus the roughly 7-9 basis points such funds charge on assets under management. He said Wall Street becoming an API for developers would lower the barrier to launching brokerage and financial applications, and cited efforts to split SpaceX equity into exposure to revenue streams such as Starlink or space data centers.
Cointime reports: A Hyperliquid trader closed a crude oil long position worth about $56.6 million on November 5, taking a $5.82 million loss. The same address still holds a leveraged Brent crude long of roughly $95.7 million, with an unrealized loss of about $7.06 million and a liquidation price of $82.33. The account’s cumulative profit and loss stands at a loss of $13.79 million.
Cointime reports: Robinhood Chain’s total value locked surpassed $1.07 billion as of November 3, 2026, with cumulative DEX volume reaching $120.46 billion. The chain crossed $100 billion in Uniswap volume in just 125 days of mainnet operation. Top TVL protocols are Morpho at $582 million, Uniswap at $280 million and Lighter at $112 million. Robinhood and Arbitrum also opened a $1.8 million developer grant pool, with applications due December 6, 2026.
Cointime reports: Jupiter ranked first among cross-chain DEX aggregators by trading volume in the third quarter of 2026, holding the top spot for an eighth consecutive quarter despite operating only on Solana. DefiLlama rankings placed DFlow second, followed by 0x Protocol, KyberSwap, OKX DEX, LiquidMesh, Uniswap, CoWSwap, 1inch and Binance Wallet.
Cointime update: Digital asset insurance specialist Soter Insure has added Standard Chartered’s SC Ventures and Japan’s SBI Group as strategic investors in its Galaxy-led Series B, with Token Bay Capital also increasing its investment. The second closing follows a first close in July that included Coinbase Ventures, Franklin Templeton and Brevan Howard Digital. No funding amount was disclosed.
Cointime update: Binance will adjust the dividend on its SAMSUNGUSDT USD-margined perpetual contract at 14:00 Beijing time on Nov. 6, 2026, at 1,001 Korean won per share, equivalent to -0.037336%, the exchange said. The adjustment, expected to take about 30 minutes, applies only to users holding net positions on the ex-dividend date of 07:00 Beijing time on Sept. 29, 2026. Eligible users can view the amount under “Special Funding Fee” in their funding records.
Cointime update: Payward, the parent company of crypto exchange Kraken, and its asset-management clients have purchased an undisclosed amount of AAVE tokens on the secondary market through affiliated fund Digital Asset Special Investments I, LP. Payward said it may add to its AAVE position and is exploring future collaboration with Aave. The purchase was made on the secondary market rather than directly from Aave, a person familiar said, a structure the parties see as aligning interests.
Cointime update: Lido has launched a Swap feature allowing users to trade tokens across Ethereum, Arbitrum and Base directly from its interface, powered by CoW Swap. For larger trades, the Lido Swap widget automatically adds an extra layer of price protection and integrates Chainlink price oracles to help users avoid abnormally unfavorable exchange rates.
Cointime update: Loopscale said it paused protocol activity after a sustained, targeted attack over the past week in which its API received more than 30,000 malicious requests per day. The attacker focused on the SOL and USDC Genesis Vaults, which have been replenished, and no user deposits were lost. The protocol will stay offline until the full scope of the attack is established and security is strengthened.
Cointime reports: An address linked to X account polypol87446165 redeemed tokens from Aave and sold $6.357 million worth of ETH and stETH on-chain over the past 10 hours, at an average price of $2,428, on November 5. The address had been dormant for a year before selling into the rebound.
Cointime update: Schroders has tokenized an emerging markets debt strategy with Centrifuge in its Solana debut. Centrifuge said the product offers a different source of risk and return than the cash and short-term government debt that dominate onchain fixed income.
Cointime update: ZetaChain has opened a governance vote on shutting down its Layer 1 network around Dec. 9. Under the proposal, staked and unbonding ZETA would count toward claims, while exchanges would set their own conversion windows. The vote puts the timing and mechanics of a wind-down to token holders.
Cointime reports: A whale who built a $148 million long position in crude oil has begun cutting losses after the trade fell $15.08 million underwater, on-chain analyst Yu Jin monitored on Nov. 5. In the past 10 minutes the trader closed $44.04 million of CL longs, realizing a $4.9 million loss. The position was accumulated over roughly two weeks before crude prices plunged 14% this week. The whale still holds $94.79 million in BRENTOIL, with an unrealized loss of $8.35 million.
Cointime update: Binance and Polymarket are seeking a Polygon hard fork to recover $6.8 million in stolen crypto. Polygon block producers have already frozen the stolen tokens, but the proposed hard fork would allow the funds to be recovered and returned to their owners.
Cointime update: Polygon community members have proposed a Polygon PoS mainnet hard fork to zero out roughly 70.49 million native POL tokens held in blocklisted attacker addresses and transfer them to a designated recovery address. About 23.86 million tokens are tied to Polymarket and 46.63 million to Binance, with total supply unchanged. The proposal is set to be presented at a protocol governance call at 22:30 Beijing time on Nov. 5; the activation block and client version remain undetermined.