On Thursday, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) said that it would be revoking Binance’s Australian financial services (AFS) licence, which had been issued to the company under the name Oztures Trading Pty Ltd. In response to Binance’s request for cancellation, ASIC confirmed that the termination of the licence
Santiment, the on-chain, social, and financial analyzer, reported that there was theft in their protocol by an unknown hacker. The firm is investigating the indictable extraction of funds from the Santiment Protocol. It has taken steps to find the root cause of the exploit and prevent further protocol misuse. They
Dubai and the UAE have officially requested further information from Binance on the company’s auditing procedures and ownership structure. More crypto regulation has prompted the request, Bloomberg reports, from firms looking to get a crypto license. As per sources, the requests are due to the massive FTX collapse that occurred
Even after the demise of Sam Bankman Fried’s FTX, for whom Kevin O’Leary was a paid spokesman, he continues to invest in the cryptocurrency market. O’Leary has not changed his mind on the asset class despite the FTX crash, which has been called one of the worst times for the
Paxful, the world’s largest peer-to-peer crypto exchange platform, announced on its official website that the company was going to suspend its marketplace. Ray Youssef, the founder and CEO of Paxful, stated that the decision was made because of key staff members leaving the company as well as the regularity problem
Evan Luthra, a prominent figure in the cryptocurrency industry, alleges he lost over $200,000 on the Chinese cryptocurrency exchange Bitget and now accuses the exchange of defrauding its customers. Bitget reportedly sold coins worth millions the following day after Luthra’s Twitter thread claimed that Bitget had frozen his assets and
One of the most comprehensive cryptocurrency trading platforms in the world may soon be a joint venture of three Canadian cryptocurrency exchanges: WonderFi, Coinsquare, and CoinSmart. The newest crypto news pertaining to the merger is that the three companies will serve 1.65 million consumers and have over $600 million in
On Twitter, people are sharing what seems to be a doctored picture. A picture of Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao (CZ) on Interpol’s red notice webpage suggests the cryptocurrency company is in deep legal danger. CZ claims the photo was doctored with Photoshop. This is a photoshopped image. 4 https://t.co/vE5XlvvuQt —
Binance, a popular cryptocurrency exchange, has been the target of regulatory scrutiny and a lawsuit from the US Commodities and Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) in the last month on allegations that it violated the CFTC’s derivatives rules. As a result, Binance saw a significant reduction in its market share of
Japan’s Financial Services Agency (FSA) has warned and classified four cryptocurrency exchanges – Bybit, MEXC Global, Bitforex, and Bitget – as “unregistered crypto asset exchange business operators.” The regulator confirmed that the listed crypto exchanges violated the “Fund Settlement Act” and conducted their operations without registration “at the time of
