Crypto news, 8 November 2026: Binance closes accounts in France and other EU countries, the Keplr incident and a drop in stablecoins
Binance confirms that affected accounts in France and other EU countries will close on 31 December, Keplr reports unauthorised transactions on wallets opened with Google or Apple, Gnosis Pay discloses a data breach on its branded cards and stablecoin supply falls by 6.66 billion in a week.
Sunday, 8 November 2026. Markets remain in a narrow range, while confirmations arrive on Binance in Europe, on an incident affecting Keplr wallets opened with Google or Apple, and on a Gnosis Pay data breach. According to CoinGecko, bitcoin is trading around 75,752 dollars and ether around 2,230 dollars.
Europe: Binance closes accounts in France and other EU countries
CoinDesk on Saturday obtained confirmation from a Binance spokesperson: the platform is "progressively restricting certain services for affected users" after the end of the transitional period under the European Union's Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) rules. "Affected accounts will be closed with effect from 31 December 2026," the spokesperson added, describing "a carefully managed process." Deposits are blocked, withdrawals remain possible and, according to Binance, there is no sudden freeze.
Cryptoast published an email to Binance France customers: if assets have not been withdrawn by 31 December, the account may be treated as inactive, which can lead to conversion or transfer of the crypto-assets. From 29 November a monthly fee of 0.025% of the balance, or 10 USDC, whichever is higher, will apply, with a first charge within three days of that date and a second after 24 December. Anyone who withdraws everything before 29 November pays no fee. CoinDesk reports similar notices in Spain, Italy and Poland and notes that France's Autorité des marchés financiers lists Binance's French registration, in force since May 2022, as having lapsed automatically on 2 July.
Security: unauthorised transactions on Keplr wallets opened with Google or Apple
On 7 November Keplr confirmed reports of unauthorised transactions on some accounts created with Google or Apple login, linked the incident to Web3Auth and suspended those logins. Wallets with a recovery phrase or a hardware device are not affected, Keplr said. Keplr advises against sending new funds to those accounts and to move remaining liquid assets to a recovery-phrase or hardware wallet.
Bitquery, reading transfers through 15:38 UTC on 7 November, counted at least 6.01 million dollars from at least 44,041 wallets on seven Cosmos networks, plus 7,603 addresses on Injective. On 8 November, according to crypto.news, Web3Auth published recovery addresses and said it had transferred assets into secure wallets with Keplr's assistance, noting that some of those operations had been mistaken for attacker activity. The 6.01 million figure therefore describes observed transfers, not a settled theft total.
Personal data: breach on the Gnosis Pay card system
Gnosis Pay says it detected unauthorised access on 3 November to the system powering its branded cards. Containment began within two hours; affected credentials were replaced and the vulnerability was fixed. Customer funds and the enterprise platform were not affected. The company did not say how many customers were involved and emailed each of them the list of exposed information.
The system was already due to be retired on 20 December 2026; until then 3D Secure is mandatory for online card payments. CoinDesk reports that Lefteris Karapetsas, founder of Rotki, published the email he received: the exposed data included his name, home address, card number and the wallets linked to his account. Gnosis Pay urges caution with unexpected messages and says it will never ask for a seed phrase, private keys, PIN or full card number.
Stablecoins: supply falls by 6.66 billion in a week
DefiLlama's daily series, which we checked, shows that overall stablecoin supply fell from 298.96 billion dollars on 31 October to 292.31 billion on 7 November: 6.66 billion less in a week, the steepest drop of 2026 in absolute terms. USDT went from 180.01 to 176.77 billion (−3.24) and USDC from 71.91 to 70.59 billion (−1.32). The 8 November reading is 292.35 billion. On CoinGecko, USDT and USDC remain close to 1 dollar: the decline came through redemptions, without a clear break in the peg.
Sources
- CoinDesk, Binance account closures in some EU countries: https://www.coindesk.com/business/2026/11/07/binance-users-in-some-european-countries-told-to-pull-crypto-before-fees-kick-in-with-accounts-closing-by-year-end
- Cryptoast, Binance France email: https://cryptoast.fr/binance-annonce-cloture-comptes-utilisateurs-francais-31-decembre/
- Cointelegraph, Binance France account closures: https://cointelegraph.com/news/binance-france-emails-announce-closure-of-its-users-accounts-on-dec-31
- Keplr and Web3Auth, as reported by crypto.news: https://crypto.news/keplr-wallet-hack-web3auth-google-apple-login/
- Bitquery, on-chain analysis of Keplr wallets: https://bitquery.io/investigations/keplr-wallet-hack
- Gnosis Pay, data-breach statement: https://gnosispay.com/blog/data-breach-legacy-system-gnosis-pay-branded-cards
- CoinDesk, Gnosis Pay breach: https://www.coindesk.com/business/2026/11/07/gnosis-pay-breach-exposes-card-numbers-home-addresses-and-linked-crypto-wallets
- DefiLlama, stablecoin supply: https://defillama.com/stablecoins
- CoinGecko, bitcoin price: https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/bitcoin
- Blockchain Reporter, weekly stablecoin summary: https://blockchainreporter.net/stablecoin-supply-sharpest-week-2026/
