Tagged: binance

January 16, 2020 @ 7:35 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Banxa, an established provider of fiat gateway infrastructure to major digital asset exchanges such as Binance, has reportedly secured $2 million via a Series A investment round. The funding round was led by NGC Ventures, one of the most active investors in the crypto-asset and… Read More

January 5, 2020 @ 6:45 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Malta-based digital asset exchange Binance has announced that it will be supporting euro (EUR) trading against six major cryptocurrencies, as part of the global platform’s latest fiat-focused expansion. According to Binance’s latest blog post, the exchange enabled trading for EUR pairs at 8am on January… Read More

December 31, 2019 @ 8:29 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Binance’s digital asset exchange for US-based traders, Binance.US, has launched beta testing of its iOS application for all platform users. The leading cryptocurrency exchange noted that it had started its beta testing via a December 30 tweet. Binance’s management confirmed the successful private beta test… Read More

December 26, 2019 @ 4:53 pm By Cali Haan  |  

Binance, one the world’s busiest cryptocurrency exchanges that blocked U.S. customers this year and now sits in 33rd place, has enabled cryptocurrency purchases via Visa credit card for its European and UK customers. “Binance will now allow users to bind their Visa cards to their accounts and… Read More

November 25, 2019 @ 11:16 am By JD Alois  |  

Crypto centric digital news site The Block is making some news about itself. Last week, the Block reported on an alleged shutdown of a Binance office located in Shanghai. As most crypto followers know, cryptocurrency trading is illegal in China – even while the Chinese… Read More

November 15, 2019 @ 6:23 pm By Cali Haan  |  

Malta-based Binance, one of the world’s busiest cryptocurrency exchanges, and Tron, the 11th largest blockchain project, have had their accounts blocked on Weibo, a Chinese social media site similar to Twitter, The Block reports. According to the outlet, all content, including the follower count, has… Read More

November 6, 2019 @ 7:18 am By Omar Faridi  |  

California-based blockchain analytics firm CipherTrace recently began supporting crypto exchange Binance’s native digital token, BNB, and its public blockchain platform, Binance Chain. As explained in the release, “Binance Chain is the underlying blockchain layer for Binance’s (decentralized/non-custodial exchange) DEX. Now, with support from CipherTrace, Binance… Read More

October 31, 2019 @ 4:45 am By Cali Haan  |  

Three of the biggest cryptocurrency exchanges in the world are seeking licenses and banking partners to set up in the Ukraine, Andriy Kolodiuk, Chair of the supervisory board of the Ukrainian Venture Capital and Private Equity Association (UVCA), told the Kyiv Post this week. He… Read More

October 24, 2019 @ 10:43 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

New York-based Blockstack, a decentralized computing network where users control their data and login information, announced that its Stacks (STX) token has been listed on digital asset exchanges Binance and HashKey Pro. Hashkey Pro is a Hong Kong based digital asset exchange for institutional investors…. Read More

October 22, 2019 @ 3:02 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Malta-based digital asset exchange Binance is planning to launch its first fiat-to-cryptocurrency trading pairs. While attending the Open Innovations 2019 conference in Moscow this week, Binance CEO Changpeng “CZ” Zhao said that fiat-to-crypto options would be introduced soon, starting with the Russian ruble. Zhao stated:… Read More

October 11, 2019 @ 1:53 am By Cali Haan  |  

Following a confirmation from CEO Changpeng Zhao (CZ) on Twitter yesterday that the Binance cryptocurrency exchange will soon allow customers to their trading accounts using Alipay and WeChat, Alipay has tweeted to deny Zhao’s announcement, stating: “NO, you cannot…There’re several reports about @Alipay being used for… Read More

October 9, 2019 @ 9:35 pm By Cali Haan  |  

Changing Zhao (CZ), CEO of Binance, one of the world’s largest cryptocurrency trading platforms, has confirmed on Twitter that the platform will begin accepting money transfers via Chinese payment giants WeChat and Alipay. The news is very significant because China has been pursuing a progressively… Read More

October 4, 2019 @ 4:53 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Binance, the world’s largest digital asset exchange by adjusted trading volume, has teamed up with crypto analytics company Confirm in order to enhance its anti-money laundering (AML) compliance procedures. Binance’s integration of Coinfirm’s blockchain-agnostic AML platform will improve the Malta-based exchange’s compliance with the relevant… Read More

September 25, 2019 @ 1:41 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Binance, reportedly the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange by adjusted trading volume, revealed that it has been granted an information security accreditation after adhering to standards outlined by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). In order to satisfy the internationally recognized ISO/IEC 27001 standard, Binance’s management… Read More

September 24, 2019 @ 1:00 pm By JD Alois  |  

Prime Trust, a custody and escrow platform providing services to both traditional and digital assets, has announced Binance America (BAM) as a customer. Binance is frequently credited with being the largest crypto exchange in the world. Recently, Binance announced Binance.us to serve US-based customers who… Read More

September 18, 2019 @ 10:02 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Malta-based Binance, the world’s largest crypto asset exchange by adjusted trading volume, has invested in Mars Finance, a Chinese media and data source company. Although the exact amount invested has not been shared publicly, the company is valued at $200 million, according to a press… Read More

September 12, 2019 @ 10:54 pm By Cali Haan  |  

Binance, believed to be one of the world’s largest crypto trading platforms, will begin registering users wanting to trade select “crypto assets” on the company’s “Binance.US” platform next Wednesday. “Binance.US will open account registration and begin accepting deposits of BTC, ETH, XRP, BCH, LTC, and USDT… Read More

September 10, 2019 @ 10:49 pm By Cali Haan  |  

America and Asia’s two largest public-facing crypto trading platforms, Coinbase and Binance, also bear the most exposure to Tethers, a synthetic form of USDs introduced into crypto trading markets to give liquidity. This is the conclusion of CoinMetrics, a blockchain data analysis firm, which recently… Read More

September 3, 2019 @ 8:00 pm By Cali Haan  |  

Binance, a platform reportedly handling 55% of the world’s crypto trading traffic, has acquired a crypto derivatives platform called JEX, Binance has announced: “JEX will join the Binance ecosystem as Binance JEX and focus on further building the cryptoasset derivatives market, providing Binance users with professional… Read More

August 27, 2019 @ 7:08 am By Cali Haan  |  

A problem with Amazon Web Services caused, “some 500 error messages on APIs and affecting some withdrawal processing,” at Binance, the exchange’s CEO claimed on Twitter Friday. Amazon Web Services (AWS)  is a cloud-computing platform and subsidiary of Amazon. Individuals, companies and governments use the… Read More