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An independent record of the October 2026 Binance hack
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we have taken a new Proof of Reserve (PoR) snapshot at 2026-10-31 00:00 (UTC), and this has already been updated on the PoR website.
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SAFU is an emergency reserve fund established by Binance in July 2018 to protect user assets in extreme cases, such as security breaches or platform-level incidents. Binance allocated a percentage of trading fees to grow the fund to a substantial level over time. The SAFU fund is held and managed by Nest Clearing and Custody Limited, a Recognized Clearing House regulated by the Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM) Financial Services Regulatory Authority. A portion of the funds serves as capital reserves as part of Binance regulatory obligations in the ADGM.
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Our last update explained that Binance had set aside more than $6.34B in company funds to cover hacked losses, and we had already covered approximately 80% of the impacted amount of the hacked loss at that time.
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Binance is committing to replenishing the SAFU to return the fund size to approximately US$1 billion.
We remain on track to reopen withdrawals within our previously stated timeframe (on Sunday, 2026-11-01) and will provide a further update as soon as details are confirmed.
The full zero-knowledge proof takes approximately 40 to 50 hours to generate due to the computational workload, so users holding any of these ten tokens can independently verify that their assets are at a minimum 1:1 backed once the full proof is generated, estimated to be by Tuesday, 2026-11-03 (UTC).