There has been a fresh wave of token transfers by defunct crypto exchange FTX. Lookonchain reports that the defunct exchange transacted almost $36 million worth of Polygon (MATIC) and Avalanche (AVAX) in the last 24 hours. In the past 24 hours, #FTX transferred a total of ~$36M assets to exchanges.
According to JPMorgan, the latest agreement between Binance and U.S. regulators bodes well. Binance’s protracted legal struggle has finally come to a close, and it’s being hailed as a major victory for the cryptocurrency sector as a whole. For the crypto behemoth and its investors, this means less uncertainty moving
According to a WSJ article, Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao (CZ) has decided to resign ahead of the DOJ’s announcement that it had settled with the cryptocurrency exchange for $4.3 billion. The WSJ reports that CZ plans to enter guilty pleas on many offenses brought by the Department of Justice. The
Just months after its U.S subsidiary was shuttered, crypto exchange Bittrex Global is reportedly closing down operations. Following Bittrex US’s bankruptcy filing in Delaware in May, the duo were sued by the U.S SEC for running a securities exchange without proper authorizations. This ultimately led to the closure. After “all
The U.S SEC has accused Kraken, Coinbase, and Binance of illegally doing business in the United States without registering as securities firms. Kraken traded a lengthy list of tokens that the SEC deems securities; each of these tokens has been the subject of many SEC enforcement cases. Kraken rejects the
According to a report from Bloomberg citing persons involved with the talks on November 20th, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) seeks payment for more than $4 billion from Binance Holdings as part of a possible settlement of a years-long probe. Any decision to the inquiry into the corporation, and
dYdX, a decentralized cryptocurrency exchange, burned up $9 million of its insurance fund on November 17 to cover customer losses, prompting the exchange to announce additional procedures to reduce trading-related risks. The exchange has raised margin requirements for several tokens trading in “less liquid markets,” according to a post on
XREX, a cryptocurrency exchange located in Asia that focuses on global transactions, was granted in-principle approval for a Major Payment Institution (MPI) license in Singapore. The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has awarded preliminary permission to XREX Singapore for a license that would enable the firm to provide digital payment
The National Pension Service (NPS) of South Korea, the third biggest pension fund in the world, has put $19.9 million into Coinbase. For a pension fund that oversees over $755 billion, this transaction represents a substantial venture into the crypto sector. With this purchase, NPS takes its first tentative steps
In early 2024, Binance and Gulf Energy Development, a major energy provider in Thailand, will launch a cryptocurrency exchange in the nation. According to a filing made by Gulf Energy on the Stock Exchange of Thailand on November 15th, the Gulf Binance initiative would launch privately at first and then
