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”
Bitcoin trading on DBS Digital Exchange (DDEx), the cryptocurrency exchange arm of Singapore’s DBS Group Holdings, increased exponentially in 2022 despite the winter’s wipeout of billions of dollars in market value. Bloomberg claims that Bitcoin trading volume on the exchange increased by 80% year over year. Bitcoins held in DDEx’s
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
Executives of cryptocurrency exchange CEX.IO have received a letter from the United States Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC). Notifying them that they may have broken federal law by making false and misleading claims regarding the exchange’s insurance status. The regulatory body has given the exchange 15 days to make the
Crypto lender Celsius Network has been seeking all options to increase the value of its assets and restructure its business since filing for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy on July 2023. Today the cryptocurrency lender announced that it agreed to partner with asset management NovaWulf Digital Management to recover from bankruptcy. Celsius
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
Despite regulatory uncertainties in the crypto industry, Ark Invest CEO Cathie Wood continues to acquire equities of cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase at cheap prices. As Coinbase’s share price fell below $58 on February 14, investment firm Ark Invest bought 14,636 shares of Coinbase (COIN). According to the records, Ark Invest, run
Prominent centralized cryptocurrency exchange KuCoin is listed leading memecoin FLOKI in its trading list with trading pairs FLOKI/USDT and FLOKI/USDC. The trading will be open from 17th February 2023 at 9.00 UTC. And KuCoin users can withdraw the token from 18th February. Also, Elon Musk’s sting of tweets that featured
On Monday, crypto trading was made available in Hong Kong via Interactive Brokers, an automated worldwide electronic broker. Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH) trading are now available to professional investors on the Interactive Brokers platform, according to a press release. In order to be considered a Professional Investor in the
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,
