Tag Archives: Exchange News

Alex Saunders, an Australian crypto/finance influencer and founder of Facebook group Nugget’s News, is revealed to have collected AU$17.5 million (US$13.2 million) in loans from FTX. The now-defunct exchange wanted to evade bad press because of the scheme it was involved in with Saunders. Saunders had lured innocent investors into providing him with funds by sending it to his crypto wallets. He claimed that he would direct toward developing multiple crypto protocols. In return, he would...

Kraken insiders anonymously spoke to Bloomberg, revealing that the leading crypto exchange plans to go public next year through an initial public offering (IPO). It is looking to raise $100 million from investors in pre-IPO investment rounds and is also on the hunt for a ‘marquee’ company on its board for assistance with the IPO. The exchange has planned for an IPO in previous years. The offering has failed to transpire due to bad market conditions, regulatory tussles, or both. It has been...

Binance has reintegrated Visa and Mastercard into its platform, according to its post on X. This move will also include SEPA payments for EU customers who want to use bank transfers to acquire crypto on the exchange platform. Binance stopped its Visa-related services in December and was dropped by Mastercard in multiple countries in September. Its Visa integration previously allowed customers to spend their crypto holdings on Binance as they would fiat in brick-and-mortar and online stores...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...