Bitcoin opened October at $83.6K and closed at $77.6K. It is the third red October since 2016, the second in a row after -3.9% in 2025, and the weakest one in a decade.

Over the last 10 Octobers BTC closed green 7 times, with a median of +10.7%. In 2026 BTC is now down 11.5% YTD, giving back part of its +42.6% Q3 rally.

Most "early" plays in your feed have no funding and no product. We filtered for one signal: real capital behind the project. This week that means Pantera, Multicoin, a16z, Dragonfly, Coinbase Ventures and Spark Capital. Six activities open right now, with links and steps.

Jumper Perps · Perps Aggregator

Jumper, the bridge and swap aggregator spun out of LI.FI, launched Jumper Perps on October 26: one interface to trade perps across several venues. Trading earns xPerps, a new points system with a fresh start for every trader. Week one had 500 traders, 14,000 trades and 400K xPerps distributed. The pool for week two grew to 1M xPerps.

Backers: Multicoin and CoinFund (lead, LI.FI) · $29M Series A extension

How to join:

1. Open perps.jumper.xyz and connect a wallet.

2. Trade perps on any venue in the app. Weekly periods run Monday to Monday, 00:00 UTC, and the pool is split by your share of trading activity.

3. Boost your xPerps: Jumper Loyalty Pass holders get a multiplier, selected venues pay extra, and trading every week adds up to 1.25x. Wash trading and sybil farming get excluded. Not available to US persons, and leveraged trading can lose all of your funds.

Arch Prime · Onchain Bank

Arch Network unveiled Arch Prime on October 29: one self-custodial account to hold BTC, dollars and crypto, earn on it, borrow against it and leverage it without selling. It comes with portfolio margining, 1-click leverage looping and in-house vaults (target APY: 6% on BTC, 13.5% on dollars). It's "coming soon", and the waitlist is open now.

Backers: Pantera Capital (lead), Multicoin Capital, Portal Ventures, OKX Ventures · $13M Series A

How to join:

1. Open arch.network and click "Join the waitlist".

2. Fill in the short form.

3. Follow @Arch_Prime for the launch. No points or token are promised for the waitlist, target rates are not guaranteed, and stocks are not available yet.

Bread by Miden · Privacy Wallet

Miden, the privacy chain spun out of Polygon, went live on partner mainnet on October 26. Bread is its new self-custodial wallet for iOS, Android and Chrome, where every payment is private by default. You can send payments, bridge from Ethereum, swap on Miden and earn yield through Aave. New users need an early access code, and codes go out in waves.

Backers: a16z crypto (lead), 1kx, Hack VC · $25M seed

How to join:

1. Open miden.xyz/bread and join the early access list with your name and email (Telegram is optional). You get a ticket number.

2. Install Bread from the App Store, Google Play or the Chrome Web Store.

3. Enter your code during onboarding when it arrives by email. Partner mainnet uses real funds: balances are capped at about $1,232, the wallet is in beta, and you'll need to withdraw before partner mainnet ends. No airdrop is announced.

Hibachi · FX Perp DEX

Hibachi is a perp DEX that passed $10B in volume and is now turning into a stablecoin-native FX exchange: EUR/USD, GBP/USD, JPY/USD and other FX perps are already live, and USDC on Circle's Arc is accepted as collateral. Points end on November 8, so this is the last week to earn them. The team says rewards may be tied to social or trading activity after points end.

Backers: Dragonfly, Electric Capital, Coinbase Ventures, Circle Ventures, Arc Builders Fund · $5M seed

How to join:

1. Open hibachi.xyz and sign up with email or connect a wallet (MetaMask, Phantom, Trust Wallet). Gnosis Safe isn't supported.

2. Deposit USDT on Arbitrum or USDC on Base or Arc. Send only these assets on these networks.

3. Trade perps before November 8. Each weekly epoch splits 1,000,000 points by trading activity, referrals add a boost, and points land every Monday at 03:00 UTC. Wash trading and multi-account farming get disqualified, and leverage can wipe out your collateral.

Fermah · Onchain Markets

Fermah started as a proof market for ZK and now calls itself the "Internet of Onchain Markets". Its ULTRAMINT waitlist opens in phases: the first 10K are already in, and more than 19,000 verified users are in line.

Backers: a16z CSX, Lemniscap · $5.2M seed

How to join:

1. Open joinwaitlist.xyz and connect to verify your account.

2. Join the Fermah Discord server.

3. Get in line. Your referral link moves you up, and the promo code field is optional. The product hasn't been fully explained yet, and no rewards are announced.

Antseed · AI Inference

Antseed is a peer-to-peer market for AI inference, like BitTorrent for AI: 700+ models from independent providers, often below lab prices, paid per request with settlement in USDC on Base. Antseed Points reward the people who use it. Every Thursday the weekly epoch ends and you claim your share of the ANTS pool. Last epoch, 611,900 ANTS went to buyers.

Backers: Spark Capital (lead), DCG, North Island Ventures, Reciprocal Ventures, RockawayX, Collider, Venice.ai · $2.4M token round

How to join:

1. Download the AI VPN desktop app or set up the gateway at antseed.com. No signup needed, and you can top up with a card or Apple Pay.

2. Use paid models through the network. Points scale with your spend times your provider's boost: $10 with a 2x provider earns 20 points, with a 5x provider 50. Free models and 0x providers earn nothing.

3. Claim ANTS at antseedpoints.com every Thursday. One buyer can take up to 5% of the weekly pool. This costs real money, and ANTS already trades, so it's a usage reward, not a pre-launch airdrop.

Not financial advice. Points, waitlists and early access don't guarantee a token.

In the first 9.5 hours after withdrawals reopened, Binance posted a $3.64B net outflow: $4.65B out, $1.01B in, or 2.1% of the $171B in its Oct 28 proof-of-reserves.

The next 10 largest exchanges took in just $710M combined. OKX alone got $496M, about 70% of it, while Bitfinex and Gemini saw net outflows.

Wallet trackers show closer to $6.9B leaving Binance over 24 hours, but part of that is likely funds moving to new Binance hot wallets not yet labeled.

Binance has covered 95% of the $6.3B North Korean hackers stole, using SAFU, its insurance fund and treasury. A new zero-knowledge proof-of-reserves is due Tuesday, Nov 3.

On-chain tracker Lookonchain flagged roughly $250,000 in deposits from wallets linked to the Binance attacker into Gate over a 12-hour window. Within hours, the exchange confirmed on X that it had identified and frozen the two related accounts.

Gate said the account details have entered its due diligence process and that it will fully cooperate with law enforcement and the ongoing investigation.

The frozen sum is a small fraction of the $6.3B drained from Binance, the largest crypto hack on record.

The FBI has attributed the attack to North Korea's TraderTraitor group, and US authorities say a large portion of the stolen funds is already frozen. Each exchange deposit by the attacker is a point where funds can be stopped before they are cashed out.

The open-source Bitcoin payment processor posted an emergency alert on Nov. 1 after receiving reports that unauthorized attackers were sweeping funds from hot wallets on self-hosted instances.

Operators were told to run ./btcpay-down.sh and keep their servers offline until the team completes its investigation. The alert named no affected versions, gave no loss figure or count of hit instances, and announced no patch.

The shutdown call applies to every instance, regardless of version.

BTCPay's hot wallet feature keeps the seed on the server to sign transactions, so a compromised host can move funds without an external signing device. The warning follows an August incident in which a flaw in versions before 2.4.2 let attackers steal LND credentials and drain Lightning node funds.

Attackers gained unauthorized access to the dApp Publishing Portal and pushed a malicious third-party app named "SKR Claim" into the Solana dApp Store, Solana Mobile disclosed on X. The App Spotlight and Quests UI were updated to promote it.

The app asked users to enter their seed phrases and stayed live in the dApp Spotlight for one hour before removal.

Solana Mobile is now removing the app from devices where it was installed. The team said it found and patched a bug that allowed linking to apps that were not fully published.

Anyone who entered a seed phrase into the app should treat that wallet as compromised. Solana Mobile stressed it never asks for seed phrases, crypto or wallet connections to claim airdrops.

Three days after the October 29 Binance exploit, the laundering trail has shifted chains. North Korea-linked actors have drained most of their Tron staging wallets and started moving money onto Solana, with no Solana-specific total disclosed yet.

More than $500M passed through Tron, spread across 1,000+ addresses, 3,000+ deposits and multiple DeFi protocols.

Funds left Tron via Chainflip, Relay, THORChain and NEAR into dozens of fresh wallets on Ethereum, Bitcoin and other chains, in transfers ranging from under $5,000 to over $100,000. Separately, a hack wallet swapped 486,970 SOL ($46.4M) for bitcoin through Relay in a single hour.

The FBI attributes the theft of more than $6B to North Korea's TraderTraitor group and has urged exchanges and DeFi services to block the listed addresses. Funds that end up in BTC or ETH sit beyond the reach of stablecoin issuers' freeze controls.

The wallet behind the October 29 Binance exploit has started converting its Solana haul into bitcoin. The address holds 970,522 SOL taken in the attack, worth about $95.9M.

In the past hour alone, the hacker moved 486,970 SOL ($46.4M) and is routing it into BTC through the cross-chain bridge Relay Protocol.

Solana was a small slice of the roughly $6.3B taken from the exchange, the largest crypto heist on record, attributed to the North Korea-linked group TraderTraitor. About $3B in stablecoins has been frozen, while swaps like this one move the remaining assets into coins that are harder to seize.

Three days after the October 29 breach of Binance hot wallets, the attacker is converting stolen tokens into more liquid assets. On EVM chains alone, the hacker has dumped more than 130 different altcoins, swapping them into ETH and USDC.

The sales brought in 123,400 ETH (about $277.26M) and 1.69M USDC, roughly $279M in total.

The tally covers EVM networks only, so the full volume across all chains is likely higher. Swapping long-tail tokens into ETH and stablecoins is a typical step before funds move through bridges and mixers, and it adds selling pressure on the affected altcoins.

The FBI has reportedly attributed the $6B+ Binance hack to North Korea's TraderTraitor group.

Withdrawals on Binance have been frozen since last week's security incident, which the exchange traced to a compromised DevOps engineer's laptop. Its fourth recovery update sets phase one of the restart for November 1 between 06:00 and 09:00 UTC.

The first wave covers 15 networks, including BTC, Ethereum, BNB Chain, Tron, Solana, XRP, Arbitrum, Base and Sui, with USDT and USDC on most of them. Assets were prioritized by user demand over the past week, and more networks will be added once security checks are complete. Deposits were not affected.

Binance says it has now covered about 95% of the hacked amount with company funds, up from 90% a day earlier.

The remaining 5% are less liquid tokens outside the top ten that the exchange is still buying through market and OTC channels. Users may see delays during the rollout, and a full post-incident report is promised once the investigation ends.