​Binance will suspend deposits and withdrawals in British pounds sterling in May

Mar 14, 2023

​Binance will suspend deposits and withdrawals in British pounds sterling in May

Operations for new users are available until March 13, for all — until May 22

​Bitcoin rate paired with the USDC reaches $50 000

Mar 13, 2023

​Bitcoin rate paired with the USDC reaches $50 000

Later, the value returned to normal levels at $22 000

​Binance converts Industry Recovery Initiative funds to BTC, ETH, and BNB

Mar 13, 2023

​Binance converts Industry Recovery Initiative funds to BTC, ETH, and BNB

Changpeng Zhao attributed the initiative to “changes in stable coins and banks”

​Users report restrictions on the Binance P2P service for Russians

Mar 9, 2023

​Users report restrictions on the Binance P2P service for Russians

Restrictions were imposed in accordance with the tenth package of EU sanctions

​Binance increases its market share for the fourth month in a row

Mar 8, 2023

​Binance increases its market share for the fourth month in a row

The volume of spot transactions rose to $504 billion, a record for the exchange

​Binance NFT Marketplace adds support for the Polygon blockchain

Mar 8, 2023

​Binance NFT Marketplace adds support for the Polygon blockchain

Currently, only Polygon-based ERC-721 tokens are available on the platform

​Court allows the sale of Voyager Digital’s assets to Binance.US

Mar 8, 2023

​Court allows the sale of Voyager Digital’s assets to Binance.US

The parties have yet to clear regulatory hurdles before closing the deal

​Binance reports reserves for 24 assets

Mar 8, 2023

​Binance reports reserves for 24 assets

The total amount of funds available for verification exceeded $63 billion

​Former SEC employee calls Binance a “shadow bank”

Mar 7, 2023

​Former SEC employee calls Binance a “shadow bank”

John Reed Stark also compared the exchange to the bankrupt FTX trading platform

​SEC calls Binance.US an “unregistered securities Exchange”

Mar 6, 2023

​SEC calls Binance.US an “unregistered securities Exchange”

The representative of the Commission stated this during the consideration of the deal to sell the crypto broker Voyager to the US arm of the exchange

​US senators call Binance “a hotbed of illegal financial activity”

Mar 6, 2023

​US senators call Binance “a hotbed of illegal financial activity”

Senators Elizabeth Warren, Chris Van Hollen, and Roger Marshall said the exchange facilitated payments to criminals and sanctions evaders

​WSJ: Binance tried to hire the SEC chair as adviser in 2018

Mar 6, 2023

​WSJ: Binance tried to hire the SEC chair as adviser in 2018

The exchange’s CEO Changpeng Zhao, commenting on Gary Gensler’s refusal, noted that “he was generous in sharing license strategies”