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The new development comes a day after CommEX officially launched on September 26, 2023. Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, has exited the Russian market, selling its business operations to CommEX, a digital assets trading platform. While Binance did not disclose the financial terms of the deal, the company assured its Russian users that all their assets are safe and will be securely protected during the transition process, which is expected to span up to a year....

Earlier this summer, Binance was required to wind down operations in Belgium due to a warning from the FMSA, the country’s principal financial regulator. Previous Dispute With Regulator The FMSA’s warning was, according to the regulator, wholly unrelated to the legal dispute currently underway across the pond. Instead, the watchdog expressed concern over Binance’s practice of offering exchange services and hosting wallets in non-EEA countries – which opens the door to money...

The platform’s usage is not limited to individual users but also extends to educational organizations. Global crypto exchange Binance’s open-access blockchain and crypto education platform Binance Academy has reported a 62% increase in the number of users.  According to platform data, from September 2022 to August 2023 there was a marked increase in individuals seeking crypto education. This brings the total number of individuals to use the platform to further their knowledge of blockchain...

This partnership is also a significant stride in the Japanese government’s endeavor to embrace blockchain technology and cryptocurrencies, fostering their broader adoption within the country and beyond. Binance Japan is partnering with Mitsubishi UFJ (MUFG) Trust Bank, a move squarely aligned with the Japanese government’s new Web3 policy. This collaboration aims to birth a new stablecoin, and the chosen platform for its development is the Progmat coin platform, a proprietary asset of...

Binance and El Salvador are joining hands to boost the nation’s long-running bitcoin agenda. The digital currency exchange – the biggest and most popular in the world – is garnering two separate licenses to operate in the Central American nation, thus bringing its total world licenses to 18. Binance Gains Ground in El Salvador The documentation was provided by the Central Bank of El Salvador, which is now permitting Binance to serve as a bitcoin services provider...

Binance has seen immense activity on one of its Ethereum hot wallets in recent weeks. However, things got heated up on September 21st as a result of high on-chain activity by the Binance 14 wallet. The hot wallet, in question, spent an astonishing 530 Ether in gas fees, worth around $840k, in a span of just 24 hours. High Gas Fees Data from Dune Analytics’ dashboard suggested that the address processed 146,582 transactions during the same period. As a result, the gas fees on...

Binance – the largest and most popular digital currency exchange in the world – has hired a new deputy chief compliance officer (CCO) and global money laundering reporting officer. The positions will be taken over by Kristen Hecht, who according to a recent blog post, has more than 17 years of experience fighting both financial terrorism and illicit monetary activity. Binance Now Has Kristen Hecht Aboard Hecht expressed her excitement about the job in a recent...

Aditya Baradwaj, a former engineer at the bankrupt cryptocurrency trading firm Alameda Research, has revealed that the company was behind bitcoin’s 87% plunge in 2021. Baradwaj explained the events that led to the sudden drop, saying the incident was a result of a work philosophy established by Alameda’s co-founder Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF), which maintained that the utility gained by moving fast outweighed the occasional costs paid due to a poor risk management system. Alameda...

The price of the native token of the layer-2 scaling solution Immutable X – IMX – has skyrocketed by over 35% in the past 24 hours. The reason behind the impressive increase remains unknown. However, Lookonchain observed that some investors had accumulated substantial amounts of the asset. IMX has recently jumped above $0.76, a valuation last seen at the beginning of August. The coin slightly retraced in the past few hours and currently stands at around $0.71 (per CoinGecko’s...

It is safe to say that Binance US – the American subsidiary of the world’s leading cryptocurrency exchange – has passed through turbulent times, witnessing considerable customer withdrawals and diminished trading volume in the past several months. According to the market data provider Kaiko, weekly trade volumes on the platform have recently plunged to a mere $40 million (a 99% decrease compared to the nearly $5 billion registered in March when the crypto industry showed...