Nordic Crypto #6: Binance reports net outflows of 3.64 billion dollars, and North Korea rejects the FBI's attribution

Issue #6 · 8 Nov 2026 · News from 2 Nov to 8 Nov 2026 · 15 stories and 0 events

Hi, and welcome to issue #6 of the Nordic Crypto newsletter, covering 2 to 8 November 2026.

2 Nov–8 Nov 2026

The week’s crypto, bitcoin and blockchain stories from the Nordics that our editor has approved. Each item links to the story on Nordic Crypto.

Norway

Norges Bank sees no current need for retail digital central bank money (original: Norges Bank: Vi er klare om digitale sentralbankpenger blir nødvendig)
Norges Bank sees no current need for retail digital central bank money but wants to be ready if that changes, Torbjørn Hægeland told a conference, according to Kaupr. He said a digital euro would not by itself determine Norway's decision.
Kaupr · 5 Nov 2026

Norges Bank official urges banks to develop a tokenisation strategy (original: Norges Bank-topp ber bankene ha en strategi for tokenisering)
Banks should prepare a tokenisation strategy, Norges Bank's Torbjørn Hægeland said at a conference, according to Kaupr. He said important settlements should use central bank money, including transactions on tokenised platforms.
Kaupr · 5 Nov 2026

Trading at Firi more than doubled the day after the Binance hack, E24 reports (original: Handelsrush hos Firi etter Binance-angrep)
The Norwegian crypto exchange Firi recorded 19.8 million kroner in crypto trading the day after the Binance hack — more than double a typical day — according to figures Firi shared with E24. Activity stayed high over the weekend at 15.4 million kroner, 50 percent above the next-busiest weekend so far this year, chief executive Thuc Hoang told E24. Hoang says it is too early to know whether customers are permanently moving funds from foreign exchanges.
E24 · 4 Nov 2026 · may require a subscription

Hyperliquid's founder wants to reach US traders through regulated partners (original: Kryptoplattformen utfordrer børsene døgnet rundt)
Hyperliquid had revenue of 713 million US dollars over the past 12 months, Investornytt reports, citing Bloomberg Businessweek. Founder Jeff Yan wants to reach US traders through regulated partners, while CME and ICE have pressed regulators about such platforms; ICE has itself invested in Trade.xyz. According to Event Horizon Labs, fewer than one in four accounts on the platform are profitable.
Investornytt · 3 Nov 2026

NBX has raised at least 34 million kroner from LDA Capital, according to Kaupr's count (original: NBX har hentet 34 millioner kroner fra LDA Capital)
The Norwegian crypto exchange NBX has raised at least 34 million Norwegian kroner from the US investor LDA Capital through ten share issues since 2022, according to Kaupr's tally of the company's stock exchange announcements; the latest, closed on 3 November 2026, raised 6.8 million kroner at 0.47 kroner per share. According to NBX's announcements, the money has funded bitcoin purchases and the capital requirements for its e-money licence and its MiCA licence. Under the agreement, NBX decides when to draw on the facility.
Kaupr · 3 Nov 2026

North Korea rejects the FBI's attribution of the Binance hack (original: Nord-Korea avviser at de står bak historiens største kryptotyveri)
North Korea has rejected the FBI's statement that North Korean hackers were behind the theft from Binance, calling it an 'absurd fabrication' in a statement by Kim Yo-jong carried by the state news agency KCNA, according to Yonhap and Bloomberg. The statement calls the attribution a political provocation and suggests it could affect dialogue between North Korea and the United States. The FBI said on 31 October that North Korea's TraderTraitor was responsible and published addresses linked to the stolen funds; the denial is North Korea's position, not a new finding.
Aftenposten · 2 Nov 2026 · may require a subscription

Binance reports net outflows of about 3.64 billion dollars after reopening withdrawals (original: Binance-kunder har tatt ut 3,64 milliarder dollar)
According to Binance, customers withdrew a net of about 3.64 billion US dollars between 07:00 and 16:30 CET on 1 November 2026, after the exchange reopened withdrawals following the hack: about 4.65 billion went out and 1.01 billion came in. Binance says this equals about 2.1 percent of its 171 billion dollars in assets and that withdrawals are levelling off. According to CNBC, the stablecoin issuer Circle has now frozen more than 1.1 billion USDC. The analytics service DefiLlama reports higher outflow figures, which Binance disputes because they do not account for its own transfers to new wallets.
E24 · 2 Nov 2026 · may require a subscription

Sweden

Safello reports a third-quarter operating profit of SEK 0.8 million (original: Safello tilbake i pluss for første gang siden 2024)
Safello reported third-quarter operating profit of SEK 0.8 million, according to its figures reported by Kaupr. Revenue fell 41 percent to SEK 98.4 million; the company reported a gross margin of 8.8 percent.
Kaupr · 6 Nov 2026

Newspaper reports cryptocurrency transfers in a romance scam (original: Så utnyttjades kändisarna i kryptobluff kopplad till Ulricehamn)
Ulricehamns Tidning reports that SEK 1.5 million in cryptocurrency was transferred through an intermediary in a romance scam. The publicly accessible excerpt does not establish whether anyone has been charged or convicted.
Ulricehamns Tidning · 5 Nov 2026 · may require a subscription

Virtune lists an AI crypto index ETP on Nasdaq Stockholm and Xetra (original: Virtune lanserer AI-indeks for krypto i agentøkonomien)
Nordic ETP issuer Virtune listed its Virtune AI Crypto Index ETP on 3 November 2026 under the tickers VIRAI on Nasdaq Stockholm and VRTI on Deutsche Börse Xetra, according to Kaupr. The product tracks an index of 13 crypto assets linked to what the industry calls the agent economy. In an interview with Kaupr, Virtune chief sales officer Andreas Severin said the listing reflects the company's view that software agents using blockchain services are becoming a growth driver alongside tokenisation.
Kaupr · 4 Nov 2026

Objections to OKXICE's tokenised shares rise to 56 companies, including Tesla and SpaceX (original: Elon Musk stoppar Tesla och SpaceX från tokeniserade aktier)
Tesla, SpaceX, Amazon, Netflix, SoFi and Lam Research are among the companies that have objected to their shares being offered as tokens on OKXICE. According to CoinDesk, Decrypt and CoinMarketCap, the number of disclosed objections rose from 50 in a notice on 30 October to 56 in a notice on 2 November. By CoinDesk's tally, 49 of 62 companies have objected.
Kryptovalutaguiden · 3 Nov 2026

Firi extends lay-offs to March 2027 and hires a new chief product officer (original: Firi permitterer til 2027 – og henter ny produktdirektør)
The Norwegian crypto exchange Firi says the temporary lay-offs it announced in August will last until the end of March 2027, the maximum of 26 weeks allowed under Norwegian rules, chief executive Thuc Hoang told Kaupr. Hoang says trading activity in 2026 has been lower than the company had planned for. Firi has hired Dino Cehajic, previously at Eika, as chief product officer, and according to Kaupr three key employees have left for other jobs since September.
Kaupr · 3 Nov 2026

Two former Valuno executives charged with aggravated insider trading (original: To tidligere Valuno-ledere tiltalt for grov innsidehandel)
Sweden's Economic Crime Authority has charged Valuno Group's former chief executive and a former finance director with aggravated insider trading, according to Kaupr and Kryptovalutaguiden. According to the prosecutor, the two learned on 3 July 2025 that Finansinspektionen had refused the subsidiary QB Europe a MiCA licence and sold large parts of their shares before the decision was made public on 4 July, after which the share price fell about 33 percent. Valuno says it is assisting the legal process as needed; no one has been convicted. The charged former chief executive is also a former leader of Medborgerlig Samling and denies wrongdoing, according to SvD; the case is Stockholm District Court B 16085-26.
Kaupr · 3 Nov 2026

Goobit signs agreement with Kvarn Metals for gold in its Futureproof platform (original: Goobit sikrer gull til spareplattformen Futureproof)
Goobit has signed an agreement with Kvarn Metals, which will be the counterparty for gold in its Futureproof savings platform, the company told Kaupr. According to Goobit, the gold is backed 1:1 by physical gold, while bitcoin comes from Kvarn Capital under an agreement made in September. Goobit says both asset classes it needs for launch are now in place.
Kaupr · 2 Nov 2026

Denmark

Binance says hackers used fake job interviews and an internal AI tool (original: Verdens største kryptobørs: Hackere brugte falske jobsamtaler til milliardtyveri)
According to a Binance post on X on 3 November, the attackers behind the recent theft approached an engineer in September with a fake job interview and got him to download a "task" containing malware. Binance says the attackers then used his laptop and misused an internal AI tool to take over the computers of two other engineers. DR reports that Binance has covered 98 percent of the losses; on 31 October Binance said about 90 percent had been replaced.
DR · 3 Nov 2026

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