On-chain investigator ZachXBT alleged on October 22, 2026, that a CoinDCX-linked address TQKJQ swept user deposits into CoinDCX active hot wallet in April and May 2026, leaving $15.8 million unaccounted for

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CoinDCX experienced operational losses on October 22, 2026, after a routine process to sweep crypto deposits landing on wallet addresses deprecated following CoinDCX's July 2025 hack failed

CoinDCX co-founder Sumit Gupta stated on October 22, 2026, that flagged wallet addresses, including TQKJQ, dated to January 2025 and were compromised during CoinDCX's July 2025 hack, characterizing reports of a new breach involving TQKJQ as a false alarm

Hackers drained approximately $44 million from an internal CoinDCX account in July 2025, prompting the Indian crypto exchange to deprecate compromised wallet addresses and warn users against depositing to them

Tron blockchain records show a CoinDCX-linked wallet address labeled TQKJQ moved 15,819,002 USDT at 11:35 a.m. ET on October 21, 2026, to a newly created address that transferred out all funds by 11:22 p.m. ET

CoinDCX credited user accounts that sent deposits to deprecated wallet addresses following CoinDCX's July 2025 breach and absorbed the resulting operational losses

CoinDCX identified a breakdown in its deposit sweep system on the morning of October 22, 2026, but did not disclose how long the sweep was down or how many users were affected

CoinDCX has not stated whether it will continue to credit user deposits sent to wallet addresses deprecated after CoinDCX's July 2025 breach in the future

CoinDCX co-founder Sumit Gupta assured users on October 22, 2026, that no customer funds would be lost, confirming active customer assets sit in segregated cold wallets

CoinDCX advised users to verify deposit addresses on its official application or website, cautioning that crypto exchanges typically do not assume liability for deposits sent to retired addresses

Blockchain researchers identified approximately $99 million withdrawn from LIBRA liquidity pools through eight digital wallets linked to the cryptocurrency's creator

Webull announced on October 20, 2026, that it will launch Bitcoin and selected crypto perpetual futures to eligible U.S. customers in November 2026

Under the Webull-Kalshi partnership, Webull provides the distribution and customer base while prediction-market operator Kalshi acts as wholesale infrastructure by supplying the Commodity Futures Trading Commission-regulated venue

Webull plans to make crypto perpetual futures available to its broader base of over 6 million clients and expand its product menu beyond cryptocurrency subject to regulatory review

A January 2026 survey by the UK Cryptoasset Business Council found that 40% of transactions to cryptocurrency exchanges are either blocked or delayed by UK banks.

The October 20, 2026 deposits to Tornado Cash from the Drift Protocol exploiter's wallet were made in fixed tranches of 100 Ether and 10 Ether to match mixer pools and obscure the sender's identity

According to Arkham Intelligence data, 71 tracked wallets belonging to the exploiter behind the April 1, 2026 Drift Protocol exploit retain approximately 81,454 Ether, valued between $194 million and $198.58 million

On October 20, 2026, an Ethereum wallet labeled Drift Exploiter 5 deposited 25,700 to 25,710 Ether, valued at $61.5 million to $63.1 million, into Tornado Cash over approximately two hours

On July 23 and 24, 2026, an address labeled Drift Exploiter 4, linked to the Drift Protocol exploit, deposited 23,095 Ether, valued at approximately $44.4 million, into Tornado Cash

Chainalysis reported that on April 1, 2026, the Drift Protocol exploiter moved funds from five initial exploit wallets to a single stopover wallet across 13 transactions before depositing into Tornado Cash

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