# The $6.3bn Binance hack exposes crypto’s growing centralisation

https://mins.news/en/item/125681

- Financial Times, 2026-11-02 15:02 UTC
- Economy
- Original: https://www.ft.com/content/aee842a2-2949-4746-8742-03c0397f0391

> The $6.3bn Binance hack highlights how centralised crypto has become. Blockchains are not the problem; technological vulnerabilities have been introduced by the ecosystem around them.

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