Changes in US stocks | Cryptocurrency concept stocks weaken Strategy (MSTR.US) falls more than 6%

The Zhitong Finance App learned that on Friday, cryptocurrency concept stocks weakened. As of press release, Strategy (MSTR.US) had fallen more than 6%, Coinbase (COIN.US) had plummeted by more than 12%, and Circle (CRCL.US) had fallen 8%. According to the news, Binance, the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange, was suspected to be the largest cryptocurrency hacker attack in history on Thursday. The amount stolen is estimated to range from 1.7 billion US dollars to 5.7 billion US dollars. The incident shook the entire crypto market. In the cryptocurrency market, Bitcoin plummeted by more than 4%, falling below 80,000 US dollars to 77,815 US dollars; Ethereum also plummeted by more than 4% to 2,246 US dollars.

According to media reports, this large-scale capital change has raised a high level of alarm in the market. The founder of Binance confirmed in a post on social networking platform X that “it really looks like a hacking attack against Binance,” but at the same time emphasized the safety of users' funds. Stablecoin issuers Tether and Circle immediately took urgent action to freeze a total of over $1.5 billion in assets related to this incident to limit the spread of potential losses. Binance recently announced that, after verification, it has frozen a total of about 3 billion US dollars of funds.