A Very Bad 24 Hours for Crypto

This is an edition of Over/Under, a newsletter on the latest in prediction markets, gambling, and the evolution of everyday risk. Sign up here. Last night, hackers stole approximately $6.3 billion from Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange. The whole thing reportedly took about 20 minutes. It was the biggest theft in the history of the sector, and also probably the biggest financial heist of all time, topping the $1.5 billion ByBit hack of 2025 and Sadam Hussein’s $1 billion robbe

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