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In February, Canadian Securities Administrators announced enhanced investor protection requirements for crypto asset traders.

OKX investigation discovered accounts holding $157 million in virtual assets owned by FTX and Alameda. 

Peer-to-peer marketplace Paxful will refund its Earn program users impacted by Celsius Network‘s bankruptcy.

Documents reviewed by the Financial Times show that Binance kept staff and operations in China despite announcing its departure in 2017.

The participating banks, however, express their readiness to proceed with the CBDC pilot.

Kraken has inked a partnership deal with Williams Racing marking the first major return to F1 for crypto this year.

OKX will set up two entities in Hong Kong.

According to Santiment’s data, just 10.31% of Ethereum’s supply is held on exchanges.

In addition to the CFTC lawsuit, a U.S. District Court has halted the sale of Voyager Digital.

CZ responded to the CFTC allegations and addressed some of them in a formal blog post.

There was an increase in net withdrawals from Binance on the news of the CFTC’s charges, shortly before and after the filing.

Two lawmakers in one week weighed in against the possibility of a United States central bank digital currency.

Here are the CFTC’s accusations against Binance that CZ is choosing to ignore. 

Binance had previously signed MoU as well as MoC with Georgian institutions earlier this year.

Coinbase explained that it is now “more important than ever” to build an inflation-tracking stablecoin that negates poor monetary policy decisions of central banks.

According to an investigation, a group of Binance employees and “angels” helped users evade the exchange’s KYC and AML controls.

Kaspersky urged people to be more careful when storing their passwords, adding that 14% of investors have not made any efforts to do so.

Jack Dorsey’s payments firm Block Inc has become the latest target of Hindenburg Research.

While the U.S. government opts for “regulation by enforcement,” other countries are fostering “vibrant” crypto ecosystems due to progressive regulation, argues Coinbase’s Daniel Seifert.

The SEC believes PoR “is not as rigorous, or as comprehensive, as a financial statement audit and may not provide any level of assurance.”

Binance announced that spot trading on the platform experienced an issue, and the crypto exchange is working on resolving the problem.

Bitcoin reacted with a sudden price drop that drove it south by almost $700.

The tokenization of vehicle titles could enable fractionalized vehicle ownership, the report said.

Bitcoin slightly dipped as Binance spot trading was suspended.