The Cryptopia cryptocurrency exchange out of New Zealand became the most recent target of hackers. By the time the attack was discovered, thieves had reportedly been able to get away with Ether and Centrality tokens amounting to as much as $3.65 million.
Over the course of the past three months, the balances of cryptocurrency wallets held by exchanges has declined. Most notably, exchange-held Bitcoin Core (BTC) and Ether (ETH) assets dropped 6%, while the holdings of once-prominent stablecoin Tether were reduced by 40%.
Binance, the world’s leading cryptocurrency exchange, will hold the first Binance SAFU Hackathon in Singapore on 19 and 20 January, 2019.
Binance has announced the launch of a sub-account feature that brings improved managerial control and asset audit tools for institutional account holders.
Binance has frozen accounts belonging to another cryptocurrency exchange, Wex, after users claimed the latter was involved in money laundering activities.
Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange by daily trading volumes, is the latest company to secure the backing of Vertex Ventures, a group of investment companies indirectly owned by the government of Singapore.
International crypto exchange Binance announced on October 15 the launch of its fiat-to-crypto service in Uganda.
Binance has procured the services of cryptocurrency compliance solutions firm Chainalysis, to better ensure meeting AML and KYC requirements.
In an effort to protect its users, cryptocurrency exchange Binance announced that it would delisting four cryptocurrency tokens from its platform, effective Oct. 12.
After coming under fire for what some have viewed as exorbitant listing fees, crypto exchange Binance announced that all of the fees it collects for listing new cryptocurrencies will be donated to charity.
Binance, through Binance Labs, has made a “multi-million dollar” investment in Contentos, a content monetization firm.
Binance, Kraken and Gate.io have been referred to the state’s Department of Financial Services, after claiming to not be operating in the state as reason for declining participation in the survey sent out last April to 13 cryptoexchanges.
