With the support of the nonprofit Superhumans Foundation, Binance Charity, the charitable arm of the premier global blockchain ecosystem Binance, is pleased to announce the beginning of educational programs aimed at helping Ukrainian residents affected by the conflict. These initiatives seek to provide these people fresh perspectives and provide them
Hong Kong’s Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) has seen a surge in crypto license applications from both local and global players in the past two months. On Feb. 20, Huobi HK, the Hong Kong arm of crypto exchange Huobi, became the 18th applicant for a virtual asset trading platform license.
The Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) issued non-compliance notices to several major foreign crypto exchanges in December 2023, demanding adherence to KYC and AML regulations. This was followed by app store bans and URL blocking, effectively shutting down access for Indian users. The foreign crypto exchanges are Binance, HTX, Kraken, Gate.io,
Galaxy Digital, an investment firm founded by Mike Novogratz, has purchased a huge quantity of Ethereum (ETH) from two major crypto exchanges, Coinbase Prime and Binance. The transaction, worth about $76 million, shows Galaxy Digital’s bullish outlook on Ethereum and its future potential. Galaxy Digital withdrew around 26,000 ETH from
For a digital asset on- and off-ramp solution, crypto exchange Backpack teamed up with Banxa, a worldwide crypto on-ramp provider. Banxa announced on twitter on February 19 that the new on-ramp solution would be available to backpack users in more than 130 countries. The developers of Solana’s executable collection of
Coinbase Global (COIN), the Nasdaq-listed cryptocurrency exchange, saw one of its largest institutional supporters, ARK Invest, sell about $90 million worth of its shares on Friday. This happened after the exchange posted strong fourth-quarter earnings that led to several analyst upgrades. Coinbase shares surged nearly 27% to $180.31 last week,
FixedFloat, a decentralized crypto exchange, has confirmed a hack that resulted in the theft of at least $26 million worth of Bitcoin and Ether. Since February 17, a number of users have complained on the exchange’s X page about stalled transactions and funds being lost. Shortly after it was originally
Creditors of the defunct FTX exchange have taken legal action by suing the law firm managing the bankruptcy case in a class-action lawsuit. Creditors of FTX claimed in a court document dated February 16 that Sullivan & Cromwell, or S&C, “actively” took part in the “FTX Group’s multibillion dollar fraud,”
The biggest and most liquid cryptocurrency derivatives platform, Binance Futures, today unveiled the Futures Ultimate Challenge, in which users can contend for bitcoin token prizes by correctly forecasting the daily price of bitcoin and compete to win a Tesla Model Y in four weekly challenges. The four-week Binance Futures Ultimate
Mocaverse, the Animoca Brands membership network and metaverse project, KuCoin, a cryptocurrency exchange, and Halo Wallet, a Web3 wallet, have partnered to improve user navigation across numerous sectors, such as crypto trading, social finance, gaming, and decentralized finance (DeFi). A collaboration statement was made on February 15th, stating that the
