Central banks added a net 321 tonnes of gold in the third quarter, the most since late 2024, the World Gold Council says.

The company behind Cash App is set to pay $764 million to end a federal investigation into its anti-money laundering program. Jack Dorsey’s Block disclosed the deal in its latest quarterly filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).

Binance CEO said an attack on October 29 affected about $6.34 billion in assets. He said 98% of the affected tokens have been replenished. The remaining 2% is being processed.

Mercado Bitcoin says about $49 million in assets were involved and $11. 2 million has been blocked.

North Korean hackers behind last week’s record-setting $6. 4 billion Binance heist are laundering crypto assets through a new wallet roughly every 25 seconds, per the blockchain analytics firm Elliptic.

A court granted final approval to a $210 million settlement. It also awarded $63 million in attorneys' fees.

The Bitcoin treasury firm Strategy (MSTR) has now stacked BTC for five weeks in a row, adding $22 million worth of the top crypto asset in the past seven days. Strategy says it accumulated 267 Bitcoin at an average purchase price of $82,900 per BTC, stretching its total holdings to 848,517 BTC.

Hedge funds' net exposure to Magnificent 7 stocks has climbed to 22% of their total US exposure, according to Goldman Sachs data. That is above the peak recorded in June 2024. Net exposure to semiconductor stocks has risen to 12%, just below the 14% record high. US semiconductor imports hit a record $15.4 billion in August.