In the first four days following the Binance hack, attackers utilized roughly 12,000 temporary wallets across 11 blockchains and conducted over 40,000 transactions to obscure funds.

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Elliptic reported on November 2, 2026 that stolen Binance assets were laundered across roughly 12,000 wallets and over 40,000 transactions spanning 11 blockchains, averaging one new wallet every 25 seconds.

Attackers initially swapped 234 million stolen USDT for TRX on SunSwap, using approximately 7,700 TRON network addresses before moving funds off TRON.

The conversion of stolen Solana tokens into Bitcoin marked an expansion of laundering routes after temporary holding wallets on the Tron network were largely emptied.

The Binance attackers converted over 130 stolen altcoins across Ethereum-compatible networks into approximately 123,400 Ether worth $277.26 million and 1.69 million USDC.

On-chain analysts estimated that despite issuer freezes, the Binance attackers retained control of roughly $3.24 billion to $3.5 billion in stolen cryptocurrency.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation, Secret Service, and IRS Criminal Investigation requested cryptocurrency services and operators to block transactions linked to identified Binance attacker wallet addresses.

Centralized cryptocurrency exchange Gate froze two accounts and cooperated with law enforcement after the Binance attackers deposited approximately $250,000 in stolen funds onto the platform.

Asset issuers including Tether and Circle froze approximately $3 billion in stolen cryptocurrency assets shortly after the October 29, 2026 Binance breach.

Binance pledged to cover customer losses using company resources and emergency reserves, having replenished about 95% of affected assets as of November 3, 2026.

Blockchain analytics firm Elliptic identified early signs of bitcoin mixing by the Binance attackers, with approximately 28 bitcoin worth $2.2 million passing through 18 mixing transactions by November 2, 2026.

The Binance attackers moved 486,970 Solana tokens worth roughly $46.4 million within one hour using Relay Protocol to execute cross-chain swaps into Bitcoin.

Blockchain network THORChain halted trading on 10 of its 13 chains over the weekend of October 31 to November 1, 2026, after being used by the Binance attacker to route funds.

North Korean-backed threat group TraderTraitor deployed AI-enabled automated operations to repeatedly rotate stolen cryptocurrency across multiple new addresses and swap venues.

Total global cryptocurrency losses from security hacks reached an annual record of $8.73 billion in 2026.

Blockchain security firm PeckShield estimated total losses from the Premia Labs options vault exploit on Arbitrum at approximately $464,600, equivalent to 131 ETH.

Premia Labs, the developer behind the Kyan derivatives exchange, suffered an exploit on its options vaults on Arbitrum on November 1, 2026.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation requested decentralized finance operators help freeze stolen cryptocurrency funds passing through their infrastructure.

Morpho secured a position among the 20 leading blockchain protocols overall by user-paid fees in 2026, according to a report by 1kx.

Over a 51-hour period ending November 1, 2026 at 05:33 UTC, approximately $147 million left the TRON network via 1,113 transfers, primarily migrating to Ethereum as ETH.

Kim Yo Jong, sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, rejected U.S. allegations linking Pyongyang to the Binance hack, calling the FBI attribution a political provocation.