Today's main topic.
On the night of October 30, 2026, the largest crypto exchange hack in history took place: hackers withdrew approximately $6.3 billion from the Binance platform. The North Korean hacker group Lazarus (Traderbug), which earlier (in February 2025) similarly robbed the Babbitt exchange for $1.5 billion, is a reasonable suspect in the cyber attack.
We have seen once again that the crypto market is still in a "grey zone" - and such hacks are part of such an "architecture".
The crypto market has emerged as an area of illegal activity, and continues to remain so. For example, Chain estimated at the end of 2024 the volume of funds received to addresses related to illegal activity in the field of cryptocurrencies at $40.9 billion. At the same time, the analysts emphasized that this is only the lower limit of estimates, based on data on transactions to addresses they were able to identify.
Both such statistics and hacker attacks on exchanges are every reason for major countries in the world, from the USA and the European Union to Russia, to take control of the crypto market.
The extreme option is to ban them completely, as in China. But smart government officials understand that outright prohibition is the way to the "black market," so state regulation is more important.