🌐 Telegram sees 700,000 new crypto wallets in 48 hours, Durov says 📌 Telegram has recorded more than 700,000 new self-custodial cryptocurrency wallets over the past 48 hours, according to founder Pavel Durov, as the messaging platform continues expanding access to its native Gram Wallet. The figures included 329,952 new wallets created on November 9 alone, indicating a rapid pickup in registrations following the recent expansion of Telegram’s cryptocurrency services. 📣 Durov attributed the growth to the wallet’s automatic activation feature, which allows Telegram users to receive Gram tokens without having to manually create a cryptocurrency wallet beforehand. The Telegram founder described the latest growth as evidence that cryptocurrency adoption was continuing, declaring that “the crypto revolution is going strong.” 🔖 Under the system, users can receive GRAM directly through Telegram, after which the wallet becomes accessible inside the application. The service allows users to hold and transfer the TON blockchain’s native cryptocurrency, alongside purchases involving Telegram gifts and collectible usernames.

🔔 What can we learn from the Binance hack and recovery? 🌐 Binance has begun restoring access after a $6.3 billion theft, drawing on its own reserves to replace customer assets. Its recovery offers lessons about how exchanges approve transactions, communicate during a crisis and demonstrate that customers can get their money back. Binance has expanded withdrawals after reporting that it had replaced approximately 95% of the assets affected by its $6.3 billion October 29 hack. ⚠️ Customers have therefore faced two different recovery processes. Binance has been sourcing replacement cryptocurrency to back their balances, while investigators and industry partners have been trying to recover the assets taken by the attacker. Returning withdrawal access involves a third task: establishing that the systems which send those assets can operate safely. An account balance, a reserve snapshot and a completed withdrawal each answer a different question about the exchange’s condition. 📣 Its published account placed the hot-wallet compromise at approximately 20:05 UTC on October 29. The exchange said it had contained affected infrastructure, revoked authorisations and introduced further controls while investigators worked to establish the sequence of events. The distinction between stealing a key and obtaining permission to use a signing system is central to the investigation. A transaction can carry a cryptographically valid signature even when the business never intended to authorise the transfer.

🌐 Exclusive: Altura investors allege fake bank records in $32M dispute 👀 Investors in the collapsed Altura stablecoin vault have alleged that approximately $32 million remains unaccounted for four months after the protocol began winding down, with a UK legal dispute raising new questions about the location of customer funds. ⚠️ In correspondence sent directly to cryptonews on October 28, a person identifying himself as Leo said affected investors had pursued court proceedings and financial tracing after promised withdrawals failed to materialize. He cited UK case reference BL-2026-001127 and alleged that records obtained during the investigation contradicted explanations previously given by Altura founder Ranveer Arora. 🔔 Consequently, the allegations concerning missing funds, potentially misleading bank documents and asset transfers remain unproven. By late July, the explanation for delayed repayments had changed. Altura said approximately £16.4 million intended for redemptions was held in a bank account undergoing an internal restriction, delaying a planned conversion into USDT.