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Founder and former CEO of Binance, the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange; pleaded guilty in 2023 to US anti-money-laundering violations.
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Binance listed Hyperliquid's HYPE token for spot trading on September 24 without charging a listing fee, two days before CZ welcomed DEX competition. Binance uses that fee for revenue and screening, and giving it up looks like a price paid to keep HYPE traders on its own order books.
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Roughly 40,000 SafePal customers had names, addresses and payment methods exposed, according to Crypto Briefing; the air-gapped device held, the shipping list did not.
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A White House remark about CFTC Chairman Michael Selig repriced HYPE and a Nasdaq treasury stock. No approval, no registration path and no timeline has been put on the record.
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Manhattan prosecutors are examining whether Binance knowingly allowed trading that breached US sanctions on Iran, and the compliance numbers the exchange offers in response cover four named venues and about $4 million of flow.
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Bloomberg Law and Reuters report that the Manhattan US attorney's office is among the agencies examining Iran-linked trading at Binance. The exchange recorded $11.4 trillion in volume in the first half of 2026.
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A civil forfeiture filed on September 14 names Blessed Trust and Hexa Whale Trading, two Hong Kong entities whose Binance accounts ran about $1.69bn of volume while the exchange sat under a compliance monitor.
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Prosecutors say about $1.5 billion in Iranian oil proceeds moved through a set of interrelated wallets, and one of the two Hong Kong intermediaries had been a Binance business partner selling payment services.
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The nine-year-old exchange is closing on costs while saying its reserves cover more than 100% of customer balances, and it will buy back leftover CET at 0.005 USDT a coin before withdrawals shut on December 22, 2026.
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The memorandum Binance signed with the National Bank of Kazakhstan names no money and no timetable, and the one permission it does name is a Category 1 payment institution licence to be held by a new local company.
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Ondo's share of tokenized equities fell from 75% to 45% while a record month of on-chain spot trading came to a fraction of one day on traditional venues. The volume mix is what sizes this fight.
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The trail Onchain Lens traced is 2.3% of USD1's $4.17bn supply. The bigger question is the 87% of the coin a February snapshot put on Binance, and the rewards keeping it there.
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CZ says the scale of tokenized assets caught him out, and the ratio he concedes is the interesting part, because $13bn of tokenized bills sitting against a $320bn stablecoin float makes this a cash management question.
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MetaMask and Trust Wallet both ship poisoning detection, and both keep it on EVM chains, which leaves Tron users doing the character-by-character checking themselves. The two largest victims paid $2.5M each.
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Agent OS fences autonomous traders behind blocked withdrawals and daily payment caps. The one number Binance does not set is how much an agent can lose.
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The donation to Giggle Academy moves BNB and a memecoin with a $480m to $500m market cap to a nonprofit that sells at month-end. The wallet itself goes inert.
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Reports put roughly $8 billion of Iran-linked trading through the exchange since 2018. The FCA pulled its permissions in 2021, so whether that history is priced in is now a live question.
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