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Binance Employees, Volunteers Tell Users How to Bypass China’s Crypto Ban: CNBC

Some employees and support volunteers at crypto exchange Binance are helping customers in China and worldwide subvert Binance's controls to hide their country of residence or origin, according to a CNBC report. "The Hash" panel discusses the potential weaknesses in Binance's know-your-customer and anti-money-laundering efforts and the revelations about the state of crypto in China despite a ban on all crypto transactions.

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Bitcoin Gains Traction as Investors Shrug Off Banking, Fed Concerns

Innovating Capital General Partner Anthony Georgiades discusses how the crypto markets are reacting to Binance's temporary suspension of spot trading and the SEC's Wells Notice on Coinbase.

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Binance Temporarily Pauses Spot Trading

Crypto exchange Binance suspended spot trading amid an issue on the world's most-used trading platform for cryptocurrencies. Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao said in a follow-up tweet that the issue is expected to be resolved in the coming hours and that the trading pause was a safety measure.

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Finance

Binance Suffers Two-Hour Spot Market Outage Due to Software Bug

Exchange CEO Changpeng "CZ" Zhao described the outage as "unlucky."

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Policy

Binance Users in China, Elsewhere, Evade KYC Controls With Help of 'Angels': CNBC

Some Binance employees and volunteers shared tips on forging bank documents, falsifying addresses or hiding the country of origin to secure a Binance debit card, CNBC reported, citing Binance-controlled Chinese-language chatrooms, whose messages it translated.

(Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Markets

Binance Curb on Zero-Fee Trading May Cost Market Share, Boost TrueUSD Stablecoin: Kaiko Research Head

Binance abolished almost all zero fee trading pairs from its platform after nine months, only keeping the promotion for the TUSD-bitcoin pair.

Binance founder and CEO Changpeng Zhao (Antonio Masiello/Getty Images)

Finance

Binance Launchpad for Space ID Tokens Receives Over $2.8B in BNB Commitments

Over 8.4 million bnb tokens have been committed to the Space ID token sale, which was raising $2.5 million from exchange users.

(Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Opinion

Bitcoin Is a Clear Winner of the U.S. Banking Crisis

The narratives around bank failures, stablecoins and interest rate hikes seem strong enough to propel the price of bitcoin, says CoinDesk's George Kaloudis.

(Tuomas A. Lehtinen/Getty Images, modified by CoinDesk)

Finance

Crypto Must Do Better to Be Banked, Say Industry Executives

The downfall of Silvergate, Signature and Silicon Valley banks have wounded digital assets. But crypto might one day work with big banks if the industry can mature, WAX CEO William Quigley and Maicon CEO Alex Liu suggested.

Brevan Howard Digital was among the backers for Puffer's $5.5 million round. (Pixabay)

Markets

In About-Face, Crypto Exchanges Abandon Support for STG Token Reissuance

Stargate Finance’s original STG token is gaining support again after StargateDAO canceled its plans to reissue STG following a dispute with FTX liquidators.

(Billy Huynh/Unsplash)