Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao stated that the devaluation of FTX will have “cascading effects” during a conference in India. The CEO thinks a catastrophe is approaching, and the imploding cryptocurrency platform is the first domino. The terrible decline of FTX has been front-page news everywhere this week. More recently, it
Genesis Trading, the market maker and lending arm of Digital Currency Group, disclosed that its derivatives division had over $175 million funds stored in an FTX trading account. Also, the trading company confirmed that it has no ongoing business ties with FTX or Alameda Research, the cryptocurrency trading company run
According to a press release on Thursday, Bahamian officials have frozen the assets of FTX Digital Markets and linked parties as a “prudent course of action” to preserve assets and stabilize the company. Brian Sims, a senior partner at Lennox Paton, was chosen by the Securities Commission of the Bahamas
The cold wallet addresses of Binance, the biggest cryptocurrency exchange in the world, have been made public. Binance’s continuous dedication to openness was highlighted as a reason for the change. However, throughout the next weeks, the cryptocurrency exchange will be publishing Merkle tree proof of funds. #Binance published cold wallet
Binance, the top cryptocurrency exchange in the world, declared on Wednesday that it will not proceed with the acquisition of FTX. As a result of corporate due diligence, as well as the latest news reports regarding mishandled customer funds and alleged US agency investigations, we have decided that we will
World’s one of the most prominent cryptocurrency exchanges FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried’s total net worth fell by nearly 94% to $991.5 million in a single day. Also, he has disappeared from the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. Prior to FTX financial crisis, SBF’s personal wealth was estimated to be $15.2 billion, as
Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao confirmed the largest exchange’s move to “fully acquire” its rival FTX on Twitter on Tuesday, putting an end to all the speculations. Binance signing a non-binding letter of intent (LOI) with FTX.com marked the initiation of the bailout. This afternoon, FTX asked for our help. There
The CEO of Binance, Changpeng “CZ” Zhao, announced that his exchange would soon launch a Proof-of-Reserves audit mechanism to enable verification of its holdings of digital assets in the wake of the liquidity issue and the acquisition of cryptocurrency exchange FTX. All crypto exchanges should do merkle-tree proof-of-reserves. Banks run
Changpeng Zhao (CZ), CEO of Binance, said yesterday in a tweet that the exchange is still holding Terra Luna Classic (LUNC) in its inventory. He mentioned this while suggesting that the firm was uninterested in Alameda Research’s offer. To swap its FTT holdings over the counter at a premium price.
Changpeng Zhao, CEO of Binance, reported that as of this morning’s early hours, the BNB platform had ETH worth about $8 billion stored in its cold wallet. He added that they are serving as custodians for the user funds and further clarified that these funds are unrelated to the platform.
