Tag #Binance
21 stories26.09
Binance already owned CoinMarketCap. Now it owns CoinGlass too
Binance now indirectly owns one of crypto's most widely used sources for tracking the exchanges competing with it.
24.09
Binance took 664 days to list HYPE. A rival backed by CZ's investment firm waited just 19
HYPE is finally getting Binance spot trading, 664 days after launch and months after a public fight over the exchange Binance couldn't copy.
22.09
Binance buys $100M Circle stake as US prosecutors probe its Iran controls
Circle once paid Binance $60 million to push USDC. Less than two years later, the crypto exchange has put $100 million back into Circle itself.
21.08
Binance-backed BounceBit is shutting its chain after an exploit matching a vulnerability patched two years ago
BounceBit is abandoning its blockchain after an attacker exploited a flaw strikingly similar to one its underlying Evmos stack patched in 2024.
17.08
Reuters: Binance said it left Russia. It still sent Moscow customer files
Binance supplied Russia with extensive personal data that later became evidence in a terrorism-financing case, documents reviewed by Reuters show.
16.08
SafePal reveals data breach affecting nearly 40,000 customers after months of phishing reports
Nearly 40,000 SafePal customers had their personal data accessed through a flaw the crypto wallet provider confirmed months after the first warning.
02.08
Binance-backed blockchain data provider Bitquery sues ex-CEO for diverting more than $5M
Bitquery is suing ex-CEO Dionysios Karakitsos for allegedly diverting more than $5 million and deleting 194 accounting records.
29.07
Binance.US must tell CFTC who owns it before prediction market comeback
Binance.US plans an August prediction market filing that would require it to identify every owner with a stake of at least 10% to the CFTC.
28.07
Binance used to publish police response times. Its latest report does not
Binance once said it answered law-enforcement requests within three days on average, but its latest tally of 313,653 requests omits response times.
27.07
Binance's co-CEO says the exchange is hiring. Her video opens in Moscow City, where three sanctioned crypto exchanges once operated
Binance says it left Russia for compliance reasons, yet its latest recruitment post opens with Moscow City, where sanctioned crypto exchanges once kept offices.
23.07
Coinbase fight over vanished Gensler texts will cost the SEC $150,000
The SEC will pay $150,000 in legal fees to settle a Coinbase-backed records lawsuit, although nearly a year of Gary Gensler's texts remains permanently missing.
03.07
Binance says 10/10 crypto crash wasn't its fault. Its former CFO says otherwise
Binance's former chief financial officer says crypto is still stuck partly because of a "lack of transparency" from the exchange.
17.06
Aster tokenomics change turns 99% of fees into ASTER buyback
ASTER buyback now uses 99% of daily platform fees, with Aster matching each buyback by burning the same amount from reserves.
16.06
Binance's European future in doubt as MiCA deadline nears: report
Binance faces fresh uncertainty in Europe as the bloc's licensing deadline approaches.
15.06
Binance-linked Aster takes on Hyperliquid with prediction markets
Aster is moving beyond spot and perpetual futures with a new prediction market product.
13.06
SpaceX stock token sale blows up after xStocks failed to deliver shares
Users who subscribed for SpaceX stock exposure via Bybit, Binance and Bitget will get refunds as xStocks couldn't deliver the underlying assets.
03.06
Binance to replace some NFTs with PDFs as exchange drops support
Binance once promoted NFTs as a no-compromise experience, but now some non-transferable Binance Academy NFTs will be replaced with PDF certificates.
31.05
Hyperliquid flips Dogecoin, HYPE becomes top 10 crypto by market cap
Hyperliquid has entered crypto's top 10 by market cap after HYPE overtook DOGE.
29.05
VanEck BNB ETF starts with one of the smallest crypto ETF debuts
VanEck BNB ETF was supposed to bring Binance-linked exposure to Wall Street, but its first day looked tiny even by smaller crypto ETF standards.
20.05
Bitfinex shows 100% of its labeled BTC exposed to future quantum key risk
Glassnode says Bitfinex has 100% of its labeled BTC in addresses with visible public keys, leaving those coins more exposed if the quantum threat to Bitcoin signatures becomes real.
12.05
Ex-Binance CIS head gets five years in fraud case
A Moscow court sentenced Vladimir Smerkis, a former Binance CIS head and Blum co-founder, to five years in prison for large-scale fraud.
