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Only days after reports of United States regulatory scrutiny of Paxos and Binance USD (BUSD), cryptocurrency exchange Binance has minted nearly $50 million worth of TrueUSD (TUSD).The transaction took place on Feb. 16, according to data from Etherscan, and also comes two days after Binance CEO Chanpeng 'CZ' Zhao said
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By Marcus Sotiriou, Market Analyst at the publicly listed digital asset broker GlobalBlock (TSXV:BLOK). Bitcoin is currently testing $21,500, a key support level, whilst US regulators hone in on crypto
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The New York Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) has ordered blockchain company Paxos Trust to stop the issuance of dollar-pegged Binance USD (BUSD) stablecoin. The New York regulator’s actions come shortly after the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) issued a wells notice to Paxos — a letter the regulator uses to tell
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The ongoing saga of the South Korean cryptocurrency exchange Bithumb continues, this time with ruling from local courts.On Jan. 13 the South Korean Supreme Court finalized its ruling that the exchange must pay damages to investors over a 1.5-hour service outage on Nov. 12, 2017. According to a local news source,
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The CFTC claimed that the FTX co-founder created a “virtually unlimited” secret line of credit” for Alameda. FTX attorney Andrew Dietderich has dropped a bombshell testimony that Sam Bankman-Fried ordered co-founder Gary Wang to open a credit line for Alameda Research. Alameda Research is the crypto exchange’s crypto company, which was at
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In a new update to the Mango Markets exploit saga, the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico has issued an order of detention to the infamous Mango Markets exploiter Avraham Eisenberg.After holding a detention hearing, United States Magistrate Judge Bruce McGiverin decided that it was necessary
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The Securities Commission of The Bahamas (SCB) said it had ordered the transfer of all digital assets of FTX Digital Markets (FDM) to a digital wallet owned by the commission on Nov. 12. In a Nov. 17 statement, the SCB said it exercised its power as a regulator acting under the
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"Mr. Bankman-Fried, the co-founder, and controlling owner of all of the Debtors and of FTX DM, appears to be supporting efforts by the JPLs to expand the scope of the FTX DM proceeding in the Bahamas, to undermine these Chapter 11 Cases, and to move assets from the Debtors to
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In its order, the FSA cites the fact that FTX Japan halted withdrawals for customers in the country without specifying a date for reinstatement and without stopping the onboarding of new customers to the platform. CoinDesk was told early Thursday by a source that FTX Japan had indeed halted withdrawals.
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Pillay’s interim report will mark the “first time the court will hear from an independent, neutral third party on a number of critical issues in the case,” Dov Kleiner, a partner at law firm Kleinberg Kaplan, told CryptoX in an email. “She is expected to weigh in on, among other
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