As per the crypto whale alert, 97,858,390 #BUSD (97,868,345 USD) have been burned at Paxos Treasury following the recent crackdown of authorities. Previously, in the second week of this month, Paxos, the issuer of the $16 billion Binance USD (BUSD) stablecoin, burned more than $700 million of BUSD tokens. That
The New York and Federal financial regulators have rejected the largest crypto exchange Binance’s $1.2 billion assets acquisition of bankruptcy cryptocurrency lender Voyager Digital. According to a 22nd February document, regulators believed it might be discriminatory and illegal. Binance U.S resubmitted its bid on Voyager after FTX filed for Chapter
The arrival of Binance, a major cryptocurrency exchange, into the South Korean market has caused concern among the country’s financial regulators. Binance, the biggest cryptocurrency exchange in the world, returned to South Korea on February 3. After a two-year absence by acquiring a controlling stake in the fifth-largest cryptocurrency exchange
Binance, a cryptocurrency exchange, and Ingenico, a payments company located in France, have announced strategic cooperation to facilitate cryptocurrency payments in the country of France. On February 22nd, Binance announced that it has teamed with Ingenico, a global payment solutions organization, to make using Binance Pay a breeze. The company
The quantity of USD Coin (USDC) held on Binance has been increasing this week, as reported by Martin Lee, a data journalist for Nansen. Lee said on Tuesday through Twitter, that it is interesting to watch the number of USDC on Binance climb so much after the BUSD event. According
The CEO of Binance, Changpeng Zhao, called a Bloomberg report that the cryptocurrency exchange was contemplating delisting all U.S.-based cryptocurrencies “false” on Friday. Citing a source with knowledge of the situation, the report claims that Binance is contemplating severing connections with its U.S. business partners after experiencing difficulties in its
Binance, a cryptocurrency exchange, has minted roughly $50 million worth of TrueUSD in only a few days after news surfaced that US regulators were looking into Paxos and Binance USD. According to Etherscan, the transaction occurred on February 16 and came only two days after Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao “CZ”
Binance, the world’s biggest crypto trading platform, has released a Mastercard debit card in the country of Brazil. Binance now offers its customers a debit card that can be used at any location that accepts Mastercard to make purchases using their cryptocurrency holdings. In addition to the many places where
Binance and Huobi, two major cryptocurrency exchanges, have once again frozen accounts. This time its related to the June 2022 $100 million Harmony Horizon bridge attack. The trading platforms blocked almost $1.4 million in cryptocurrency that was traced to accounts associated with the infamous Lazarus Group in North Korea. Based
The largest cryptocurrency exchange Binance onboarded Noah Perlman, crypto exchange Gemini’s former C-suite executive, as its new Chief Compliance Officer. Evidently, Binance is reinforcing its compliance team through significant hiring to insulate itself from growing regulatory scrutiny. The news about this prominent hiring was first reported by Bloomberg on Monday,
