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An independent record of the October 2026 Binance hack
People. Co-CEO of Binance
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Binance co-CEO Yi He said in a post on X that $3 billion represented only about 2% of the company's total user assets and public reserves.
Reviewer note: Event time is a date only. The 00:00 UTC time shown is a placeholder, the source gives no time of day.
Binance co-CEO Yi He said Ripple helped stop about USD 200 million from moving; TRM has confirmed the 40.5 million RLUSD freeze onchain.
Reviewer note: Yi He's figure is Binance's side of a disagreement: TRM confirmed 40.5 million RLUSD frozen on-chain.
Binance is buying altcoins in quantities matching those stolen in the hack as it prepares updated proof of reserves,
Reviewer note: Event time is the time Cointelegraph stamped its live-blog entry (11:07 am UTC), not a time stated by the speaker.
Ripple "promptly" froze roughly $200 million in associated funds, co-CEO Yi He [said]
Reviewer note: TRM, by contrast, confirmed a 40.5 million RLUSD freeze on-chain.
that the exchange’s revenue for the year was sufficient to cover the hack losses and that the company did not need to sell its stake in SpaceX.