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A whale heavily shorted ETH and BTC after the Binance hack incident, currently sitting on a floating profit of $2.29 million

Odaily reports: According to Lookonchain monitoring, after the Binance attack incident, a whale address 0x8add immediately shorted 22,047 ETH (approximately $48.89 million) and 620.7 BTC (approximately $47.89 million) at maximum leverage, with the two short positions totaling approximately $96.78 million in notional value. Currently, the trader's unrealized profit on these positions has reached $2.29 million.

EIP-7702 Developer: EIP-7702 Itself Has No Vulnerability, But It Did Help the Hacker in the Binance Incident

Odaily Report: Derek Chiang, founder of ZeroDev and a developer involved with EIP-7702, posted on X stating that first, to be clear — EIP-7702 itself has no vulnerability. If you are using a wallet that supports EIP-7702 (MetaMask, Uniswap, Ambire, etc.), please do not panic.EIP-7702 is an Account Abstraction improvement proposal that allows externally owned accounts (EOAs) to sign a special message called a "7702 authorization," thereby embedding a smart contract into that account. This enables accounts to achieve powerful functionality, such as transaction batching — combining "authorization" and "transfer" into a single transaction, allowing you to complete a swap on Uniswap with just one click.Unfortunately, the same feature also allows hackers to efficiently transfer all your tokens in a single transaction. In the Binance hack incident, the hacker moved ETH, USDT, and 62 other tokens in one transaction, whereas without EIP-7702, they would have needed to send a separate transaction for each token. In this particular incident, many such transactions would have failed anyway, because Binance was still using the compromised wallet for withdrawals at the time, so all transactions sent by the hacker had to compete with legitimate transactions for Nonce (transaction sequence number). Therefore, using EIP-7702 did help the hacker steal funds as quickly and as extensively as possible.However, for the hacker to use EIP-7702, one of the following conditions must have been met: first, they obtained the private key; second, they tricked Binance into signing a 7702 authorization — the latter is highly unlikely, as it is hard to imagine Binance exposing an endpoint used for signing 7702 authorizations (or worse, signing raw messages that could be repackaged by the hacker for 7702 authorization). But until the official postmortem report is released, this possibility cannot be completely ruled out.Derek Chiang added: "As one of the contributors to account abstraction, I feel somewhat responsible for this hack incident, because while giving accounts more powerful functionality, we have indeed also given hackers stronger capabilities."

Unrealized profit narrows to $2.45 million, UXLINK hacker-linked address holds 30,282.4 ETH long position

Odaily reports: According to monitoring by on-chain analyst Ai Yi, the UXLINK hacker-linked address (0xde8...9524) opened a 30,282.4 ETH long position on Hyperliquid. Its unrealized profit reached $7.422 million in the early hours of today, but has now narrowed to $2.45 million. The original post stated that ETH came under pressure and pulled back due to the recent Binance hack incident.

Binance hacker has completed the sell-off of 7 tokens including UNI and ENA, cumulatively converting to 70,480 ETH, worth $158 million

Odaily reports: According to Lookonchain monitoring, the Binance attacker has completed the sell-off of 7 tokens including UNI, ENA, PEPE, LINK, AAVE, ONDO, and WLD, cumulatively converting to 70,480 ETH, valued at approximately $158.25 million based on current quoted prices. Among them:UNI: sold 7.02 million tokens, worth $39.63 million, at an average price of $5.65;ENA: sold 217.5 million tokens, worth $33.93 million, at an average price of $0.16;PEPE: sold 7.77 trillion tokens, worth $31.66 million, at an average price of $0.0000041;LINK: sold 2.57 million tokens, worth $26.05 million, at an average price of $10.14;AAVE: sold 127,953 tokens, worth $14.27 million, at an average price of $111.55;ONDO: sold 21.85 million tokens, worth $6.62 million, at an average price of $0.30;WLD: sold 17.32 million tokens, worth $6.09 million, at an average price of $0.35.

Stolen BTC Short-Term Selling Pressure Nearly Zero, Benson Sun Says ETH More Likely to Form Selling Pressure

Odaily Report: According to monitoring by Benson Sun, Coinkarma founder Benson Sun posted that in Binance's recent theft incident, the exchange has confirmed the freezing of approximately $2.5 billion in assets, accounting for about half of the total stolen amount, with the remaining assets primarily consisting of Bitcoin and ETH. The stolen Bitcoin is worth approximately over $1 billion, but Bitcoin lacks deep mixing pools similar to Tornado Cash, and the relevant addresses will be flagged by trading platforms and on-chain analytics firms, making it far more difficult to liquidate than ETH. Reviewing cases such as the 2016 Bitfinex stolen Bitcoin that remained untouched for years, and the approximately 1,800 BTC stolen from Coldcard in July this year with 90% still unmoved as of early September, Benson Sun stated that this theft is larger in scale, and splitting addresses, mixing coins, and then discounting through OTC trading could take years, with short-term selling pressure nearly zero. If Binance uses SAFU to compensate and replenish Bitcoin, it could instead create buying pressure. In contrast, large amounts of ERC-20 tokens converted into ETH and then deposited into Tornado Cash are harder to trace, and the amount that could genuinely translate into market selling pressure may be in the range of over $1 billion. Benson Sun believes that market confidence will be impacted, but the direct selling pressure on Bitcoin is not as large as imagined, and called on the industry to seriously address security arrangements for hot wallet management, signature authorization, and quantum resistance in the post-AI era.

Arbitrum: Transferred 74.5598 million ARB and 8,425 ETH related to the Binance attack to a frozen wallet

Arbitrum officially announced that the Arbitrum Security Council has taken emergency action to transfer 74,559,805 ARB tokens and 8,425 ETH held by addresses associated with the Binance attack incident on Arbitrum One. Following technical assessment and review, the Security Council transferred the funds to an intermediate frozen wallet via a specific technical solution, without impacting other network states, users, or applications on Arbitrum.

Hacker dumps 7.77 trillion PEPE from Binance hot wallet, token price falls 12.33%

Odaily reports: According to on-chain analyst Aunt Ai, a hacker has sold off all 7.77 trillion PEPE tokens from Binance's hot wallet, exchanging them for 14,049 ETH worth over $31.9 million, at an average selling price of approximately $0.0000041, causing PEPE's price to drop 12.33%. Currently, the unrealized profit on the 11.8 trillion PEPE transferred out by Brother Sun since October 17 has shrunk to $4.45 million, with an average withdrawal price of approximately $0.000004114; last night, his unrealized profit had once reached $18.55 million.

Analyst: Hacker Has Not Yet Moved the Bitcoin Stolen from Binance

Odaily reports: According to monitoring by on-chain analyst Yu Zhan, Binance appears to have suffered a large-scale security incident in the early hours of today, with approximately $3.43 billion in assets stolen. This figure excludes about $2.43 billion in stablecoins that stablecoin issuers helped freeze.Among the stolen assets, the largest single item was 18,270 BTC, worth approximately $1.44 billion, and the relevant BTC has not yet been moved. Meanwhile, the hacker is converting other altcoins into ETH, and the ETH held has now reached approximately 467,000, worth about $1.06 billion.

Binance hacker suspected of making a mistake, possibly locatable via MetaMask Gas Station IP

Odaily reports: Smart contract developer Justin Kalland posted on X that the Binance hacker appears to have made a potential mistake, and MetaMask should retain as much of any Web2 logs as they can obtain.Specifically, the hacker sent 175 million USDT to a new wallet, and about 2.5 minutes later, that wallet also received 2 ETH. This was likely used to pay for Gas fees, consistent with the pattern used by their other attack wallets.Exactly two minutes after that, the wallet used MetaMask's Gas Station service, even though it already had Gas fees at the time. Three consecutive transactions landed in the same block — an ETH top-up from Gas Station, an infinite USDT approval to the Kyber Network router, and a payment of 127.67 USDT to Gas Station. The amount of the ETH top-up exactly matched the combined maximum Gas budget of the Kyber approval and the USDT payment. Accurate down to wei (the smallest Ethereum unit).But the problem is that the ETH they had at the time was already fully sufficient to cover both fees, so a reasonable speculation is that they were using a MetaMask wallet at the time and, due to haste, mistakenly selected USDT to pay for Gas fees. For convenience, MetaMask sometimes defaults to this method, and the order of top-ups within the same block also matches how its implementation mechanism works.To use Gas Station in MetaMask, users must use MetaMask Sentinel. This means the transactions were broadcast through them, rather than through a regular RPC. This interaction likely left off-chain records at MetaMask, which may include IP metadata.Among all the attacker's wallets that have been checked, this is the only wallet showing use of Gas Station, and the wallet address is: 0xAa246BF639586a6Ba46762D378CE50cA4fc654a0.

Wallet Linked to Binance Hackers Holds About 253,000 ETH, Worth Approximately $570 Million

Odaily report: A wallet suspected to be associated with the Binance hack incident received tens of thousands of ETH through a Uniswap contract and borrowed 19,762 ETH on Aave using approximately $60 million in USDT as collateral. On-chain records do not show any vulnerabilities in Uniswap or Aave.As of 22:07 UTC, the two wallets held approximately 253,000 ETH, worth about $570 million, with no outgoing transfers recorded. Aave has paused the Ethereum mainnet V3 market, and Kamino has also paused borrowing in the SOL/BTC market; Ripple has frozen approximately $200 million in RLUSD, and more than $2 billion in USDT and USDC has been frozen by stablecoin issuers. (Decrypt)

Binance hacker is dumping PEPE, UNI, LINK and other tokens on-chain in exchange for ETH, and still holds multiple altcoins

According to Lookonchain monitoring, the Binance hacker is currently dumping PEPE, UNI, LINK and other tokens on-chain in exchange for ETH. Lookonchain states that the hacker still holds a large amount of altcoins that may face significant selling pressure, including 217.497 million ENA (worth $39.51 million), 7.579 trillion PEPE (worth $34.41 million), 2.575 million LINK (worth $28.07 million), 128,034 AAVE (worth $15.9 million), 74.56 million ARB (worth $11.54 million), 1.938 million UNI (worth $12.62 million), 21.852 million ONDO (worth $8.52 million), 17.318 million WLD (worth $6.73 million), 714.911 million FUN (worth $6.29 million), 87.853 million ZAMA (worth $6.02 million), 3.602 million ZRO (worth $5.69 million), and 3.382 billion RSR (worth $5.02 million).

Binance-linked Bitcoin hot wallet reportedly transfers out approximately 17,500 BTC

According to monitoring by Bitcoin News, a Bitcoin address labeled as a hot wallet in Binance's own transparency disclosures reportedly had approximately 17,500 BTC transferred out. The transfer occurred amid reports of a major security incident involving a Binance-linked Ethereum wallet. It is currently unclear whether this Bitcoin transfer was unauthorized or a movement made for security reasons.

Addresses related to the suspected Binance theft transfer out 57,900 ETH

According to Whale Alert, at 05:41 Beijing Time, the address tagged "Binance Hack 2026" transferred 57,891 ETH (approximately $133 million) to a new wallet.

EIP-7702 authorization exploited to move Binance wallet assets, with an additional $780M USDC transferred out

Odaily reports: According to Bitcoin News monitoring, on-chain analysis shows that attackers appear to have exploited the Ethereum EIP-7702 mechanism to obtain signature authorization, installing malicious code without directly accessing the private keys of Binance-associated wallets. The attackers then called a function named "sweep" to transfer ETH and dozens of tokens into wallets under their control; the same delegation permission was reportedly also used to transfer $780 million USDC out of another Binance hot wallet. The attackers' transaction relayer received funding through Tornado Cash, and nearly 195,460 ETH was subsequently transferred to a newly created wallet. How the attackers obtained the relevant authorization remains unclear. Binance stated that user funds are safe and that an investigation is currently underway.

Binance Suspected of Being Hacked for at Least $5.57 Billion Across Three Public Blockchains

According to on-chain statistics cited by Decrypt, at least $5.57 billion in assets have been transferred from wallets associated with Binance, involving Ethereum, Bitcoin, and TRON; if confirmed as a hack, it would become the largest cryptocurrency heist in history. Binance stated that it is still investigating.

Binance-labeled wallets saw over $5.6 billion in outflows amid suspected attack

Odaily reports: On-chain monitoring shows that the total assets flowing out of Binance-labeled wallets amounted to approximately $5.643 billion. The breakdown includes: $3.528 billion on Ethereum, $1.449 billion on Bitcoin, $628 million on Tron, and $38 million combined across Arbitrum, Optimism, and Base networks. The tally excludes change outputs and avoids double-counting subsequent transfers and swaps. Tether and USDC issuer Circle have frozen at least $2.316 billion in stablecoins, including approximately $1.493 billion in USDT and $823 million in USDC.

195,000 ETH transferred between unknown wallets, worth approximately $449 million

According to Whale Alert, at 04:40 Beijing Time, 195,460 ETH (approximately $449 million) were transferred from an unknown wallet to a new wallet.

28,000 ETH transferred from Binance to unknown wallet

According to Whale Alert, at 04:26 Beijing Time, 28,005 ETH (worth approximately $64.86 million) were transferred from Binance to an unknown wallet.

Bitcoin ETF records $135 million in single-day net inflows, while Ethereum ETF remains in net outflow.

According to Lookonchain data, Bitcoin spot ETFs recorded a daily net inflow of 1,684 BTC (approximately $135 million), while Ethereum spot ETFs saw a daily net outflow of 9,081 ETH (approximately $21.11 million), with both averaging net outflows over the past seven days.

With a position value of $45.34 million, a trader with a 100% win rate went long on 19,491 ETH with 25x leverage

according to Lookonchain monitoring, a trader with a 100% win rate (0xe813...6d74) went long on 19,491 ETH with 25x leverage one hour ago, with the position value at $45.34 million and current unrealized profit of $315,000. This trader has completed 5 trades, all of which were profitable, with cumulative profits of $4.6 million.