Fifteen major cryptocurrency attack incidents occurred in November, resulting in combined losses of approximately $194.27 million, PeckShield data show. The top five affected platforms were Balancer, Upbit, yearn, HLP (bad debt), and GANA Payment.

Yearn's yETH stable pool suffered an $8.9 million loss on Nov. 30 at 21:11 UTC through mass minting via a custom contract, Yearn said Dec. 1. The attack drained approximately $8 million from the stable pool and $900,000 from the yETH-WETH pool on Curve. The compromised code was isolated to the yETH product, with V2 and V3 Vaults unaffected. Yearn noted the attack's complexity resembles a previous Balancer incident and is working with SEAL911 and auditor ChainSecurity on the investigation.

Japan's two-year government bond yield hit 1% on Dec. 1, its highest level since 2008, The Japan Times reports. Five-year and ten-year yields climbed to 1.35% and 1.845% respectively, while the yen strengthened 0.4% against the dollar to 155.49. BOJ Governor Kazuo Ueda said the central bank will assess rate increases before deciding at appropriate times. Markets are pricing in a 76% probability of a BOJ rate hike at the Dec. 19 meeting, rising above 90% for the January meeting.

Stocks and cryptocurrencies associated with President Donald Trump have declined significantly since his inauguration, the Wall Street Journal reports. DJT shares fell 75% since the swearing-in, while digital tokens named after Trump and First Lady Melania dropped 86% and 99% respectively from inauguration day levels. World Liberty Financial, a crypto project linked to the Trump family launched in September, declined approximately 40%. Alpine Macro chief equity strategist Nick Giorgi described the movement as "a healthy pullback after speculative frenzy," noting the broader correction reflects shifts across high-valuation, speculative markets including Bitcoin and AI stocks as investors focus on actual company performance.

The cryptocurrency market recorded $435 million in total liquidations during a 4-hour window on December 1, with long positions accounting for $424 million and short positions for $11.43 million, Coinglass data show. Over the past 24 hours, 179,416 traders were liquidated with total losses reaching $535 million. The largest single liquidation order occurred on Binance's ETHUSDC pair, valued at $14.48 million.

A critical CME Group data center in Aurora, Illinois experienced a service outage exceeding 10 hours from the evening of Nov. 27 to the morning of Nov. 28, JinShi reports. Temperatures at the facility reached nearly 49 degrees Celsius after cooling equipment failed, approximately 48% above the U.S. industry-standard maximum. The exchange did not activate its backup data center in the New York area, with sources familiar with the matter suggesting major trading firms may have lacked sufficient technical infrastructure at the backup facility and preferred to await restoration of the Aurora site.

CME Group suspended futures and options trading on November 28 due to a data center failure, affecting markets encompassing trillions of dollars in contracts including S&P 500 index futures, U.S. Treasuries, crude oil, gasoline, and palm oil, Bloomberg reports. The foreign exchange platform EBS resumed service at 12:00 p.m. London time after hours of downtime. Gerald Gan, deputy chief investment officer at Singapore's Reed Capital Partners, described the outage as "very annoying" and noted that alternative platforms may lack CME's liquidity depth. The disruption occurred the day after Thanksgiving during a half-day trading session in U.S. markets and exceeded the duration of a 2019 technical-error-related outage lasting several hours.