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Binance Invests a Lot of Money into Curve’s Stable Asset

Binance Labs – the investment side of the world’s largest and most popular digital currency exchange – has placed $5 million into the new Curve DAO token that powers the Curve blockchain network. Binance Puts a Lot of Dough into Curve At the time of writing, Curve is valued at roughly $2.4 billion and witnesses a daily trading volume of more than $215 million on its investment platform, which seeks to help fans of decentralized finance (defi) trade assets for the...

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Attorney: The SEC Will Not Go Easy on Binance

Not long ago, Bittrex – a popular digital currency exchange – settled the lawsuit that had been filed against it by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The financial agency has had it in for the firm (like it has with many others), and the company is now looking to get things done quickly and silently so it can continue its operations without interruption, but a former special trial counsel is saying that the same easy route to ending things likely won’t...

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Will Binance Exit Europe? Analysts Weigh In

Binance – the world’s largest and most popular digital currency exchange – may not remain in Europe, according to various analysts. What Will Happen with Binance in Europe? Right now, Binance is being hit from both sides. In the U.S., for example, regulations are coming down hard. The company is the victim of a lawsuit filed against it by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), and it has stated that it may shut down its America-based unit as a means of...

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Former Crypto Exec Sam Bankman-Fried Heading to Prison

Sam Bankman-Fried – the now disgraced former executive of the fallen crypto exchange FTX – is heading to jail. The judge overseeing his case has stated he is guilty of violating the terms of his bail too often. It’s also believed that Bankman-Fried has attempted to tamper with witnesses while away from prison. It’s Jail Time for Sam Bankman-Fried The judge in question is District Judge Lewis Kaplan. At a hearing in New York, he commented that Sam Bankman-Fried has...

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Binance Brings New Compliance Executive Onboard

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...

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Base, the Layer-2 Network from Coinbase, Has Already Seen Tons of Action

Base – the highly anticipated layer-2 network of popular digital currency exchange Coinbase – is now live and has been available for public trading since August 9. Coinbase Allows Base to Go Live Jesse Pollak – the lead for Base and the head of protocols at Coinbase – explained in a recent podcast that the network underwent a lengthy period on the test net between February and July of this year. He commented: We’ve reached a point where we felt there was a...

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Jack Dorsey to Give Coinbase Some Help in Implementing Lightning

Brian Armstrong – the CEO of Coinbase – and Jack Dorsey, who now runs Block Inc. and is the former head of social media giant Twitter, are teaming up in the name of bitcoin and the Lightning Network. Jack Dorsey and Coinbase: The Perfect Match? The Lightning Network was initially created to aid bitcoin with its unending array of transactions. Traffic has become so common and heavy atop the BTC ledger that things have really slowed down in recent years, and fees...

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Coinbase Layer-2 Network Sees Heavy Meme Token Action

Base – the new layer-2 blockchain trading platform from Coinbase – has gotten quite big over the past few months thanks to several new meme tokens. In fact, it appears Base garnered as much as $68 million in ether over the past few weeks alone, and the network isn’t even live yet. Coinbase Layer-2 Network Sees Heavy Revenue Jumps The new meme currency that everyone seems so attracted to is called BALD, which was built atop the Base network. The asset really...

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One Charge Against Former Crypto Head Sam Bankman-Fried Has Been Dropped

There’s a rumor swirling around that the Department of Justice (DOJ) has dropped all charges against Sam Bankman-Fried, the former (disgraced) head of the now defunct crypto exchange FTX, but the agency has put out a statement saying this is not correct. Sam Bankman-Fried Will Have One Charge Against Him Dropped At press time, it appears only one charge has been dropped against Sam Bankman-Fried, and that’s count eight, which details an alleged campaign finance...

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The SEC Requested that Coinbase Delist All Assets Other Than BTC

Brian Armstrong – the CEO of Coinbase, the largest and most popular digital currency exchange in the U.S. – says that members of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) approached him and his fellow crypto executives to see about the platform delisting all assets other than bitcoin prior to filing their suit against the company. Coinbase was Given an Odd Choice Coinbase is facing several charges from the SEC, which alleges that the digital currency firm...

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