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Finance

Crypto Exchange Bybit Announces $100M Fund to Support Institutional Clients

The exchange will offer as much as $10 million to institutional clients and market makers.

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Finance

Binance.US to Bid for Crypto Lender Voyager, Binance CEO Confirms

CoinDesk reported last week that Binance.US would be preparing a bid for the bankrupt lending platform.

Changpeng “CZ” Zhao, CEO de Binance, en el evento Consensus Singapore 2018. (CoinDesk)

Finance

Binance Targets $1B Recovery Fund for Distressed Crypto Assets: Bloomberg

The Binance fund will be open to contributions from other industry players.

Changpeng Zhao, CEO of Binance, at Consensus Singapore 2018 (CoinDesk)

Videos

Sam Bankman-Fried Scrutiny Ramps Up; Bitcoin Wallet of Failed BTC-e Exchange Wakes Up

Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) said in a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland they want Sam Bankman-Fried and others investigated for FTX's collapse. Plus, a crypto wallet linked to the failed BTC-e exchange sent a total of 10,000 bitcoins to two unidentified recipients, its largest transaction since August 2017.

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Litecoin Surges to 6-Month High Ahead of Mining Reward Halving

Litecoin (LTC) is surging eight months ahead of its third mining reward halving, which will cut LTC's pace of supply expansion by 50%. "The Hash" panel discusses what this means for LTC and the wider crypto markets amid the FTX gloom.

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Videos

Binance.US Leans Into National Politics With New Campaign PAC

Binance.US is stepping into national politics with its own political action committee (PAC), the Binance.US Innovation PAC. CoinDesk Global Policy & Regulation Managing Editor Nikhilesh De discusses what this means for crypto's role in politics as FTX and its former CEO Sam Bankman-Fried vanish from U.S. policy circles.

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Videos

FTX Fallout: Incoming Kraken CEO on Trust for Centralized Exchanges

Following the downfall of the FTX empire, why should retail investors trust other centralized exchanges? "Our security team is larger than the entirety of FTX," says Dave Ripley, incoming CEO of Kraken. He discusses the "silver lining" coming out of the FTX "tragedy."

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Opinion

What Is a Crypto Exchange Token and How Did It Help Blow up FTX?

Exchange tokens do not represent a claim on a centralized crypto businesses, but they can have utility.

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Videos

FTX Fallout: One Bad Apple?

Host Joel Flynn discusses who is to blame for the FTX fallout. That story and other news shaping the cryptocurrency world in this episode of "The Daily Forkast."

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