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Binance wallets see up to $5.6B outflow in suspected hack; Tether, Circle freeze $2.3B

On-chain estimates show about $5.8 billion moved out of Binance wallets in a suspected hack, with marked wallet outflows at roughly $5.64 billion as of 5:22 a.m. Beijing time — $3.528 billion on Ethereum, $1.449 billion on Bitcoin, $628 million on Tron, and $38 million combined on Arbitrum, Optimism and Base. Tether and Circle have frozen at least $2.316 billion in stablecoins. Binance has not confirmed a hack and says user funds are fully safe.

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The scale here is the story: a suspected outflow in the billions across Ethereum, Bitcoin and Tron, with stablecoin issuers freezing a large share of it, points to a coordinated response rather than a routine wallet movement. The gap between on-chain estimates and Binance's insistence that user funds are safe is the central tension, and it matters most for traders and institutions whose confidence in exchange custody rests on that claim. Whether the freezes meaningfully constrain the movement of funds, and whether Binance substantiates its assurances with verifiable data, is the open question.

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