The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency issued a consent order against Anchorage Digital in 2022 regarding anti-money laundering and compliance issues, which was lifted in 2025 following compliance infrastructure investments

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The Bank of Korea requested that the 31 surveyed financial institutions submit their responses to the cryptocurrency risk survey by November 4, 2026.

The Bank of Korea survey includes South Korea's five major banks—KB Kookmin, Shinhan, Hana, Woori, and NH NongHyup—alongside 13 securities companies and other lenders.

A Bank of Korea official stated that the central bank is conducting the risk survey to establish a baseline understanding of financial institutions' digital asset activities, as regular reporting to the Financial Supervisory Service lacks crypto-specific details.

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.

The Bank of Korea survey requires banks and brokerages to disclose their existing digital asset businesses, planned projects, motives for market entry, and capital invested in domestic and overseas crypto companies.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

South Korea's Financial Services Commission proposed tougher security requirements in October 2026, including more frequent vulnerability assessments and greater executive accountability for financial firms.

According to Chainalysis, North Korea-based threat actors accounted for nearly 90% of cryptocurrency hack losses in 2026, up from 15% in 2021.

Anchorage Digital Bank N.A. became the first crypto-focused firm to obtain a federal national bank charter from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency in January 2021, and also holds a New York BitLicense

U.S. retail customers will access the perpetual futures market through futures commission merchants subject to standard Know Your Customer and Anti-Money Laundering checks

A Binance spokesperson stated that Binance was unaware of conversations between U.S. regulators and banks about the hack but remains in close contact with global regulators regarding the October 29, 2026 Binance security breach

Cybersecurity personnel at a major U.S. bank contacted Binance within hours of the October 29, 2026 hack to prepare an internal report for reviewing the bank's own systems

U.S. banks began running internal diagnostics and devoting resources to patch code to defend against a similar attack following the October 29, 2026 Binance breach

Under the OCC and FDIC rule effective November 2, 2026, cybersecurity flaws that do not pose likely serious financial harm or violate law are classified as unmonitored supervisory observations

THORChain processed approximately 200 million dollars in transaction volume for North Korean hacker addresses within two days of resuming network operations