Sources: French regulator ACPR is carrying out anti-money laundering checks on Binance and others, as it seeks to determine eligibility for EU MiCA licenses (Claudia Cohen/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
"As trading activity spiked on [#Crypto] exchanges and prices whipsawed, multiple centralized platforms suffered glitches. Binance’s site went completely down at one point, and customers reported unexplained account freezes, unsuccessful trades, and automated protections like stop-losses failing to trigger"
Again, of course. People build crypto exchanges because they want to get ric…
Sources: Binance nears a deal with the US DOJ to remove the outside compliance monitor imposed under its $4.3B 2023 settlement over money laundering failures (Sabrina Willmer/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
Faced with blowback over his pardon of Binance founder Changpeng Zhao,
Donald Trump has offered a curious defense:
he doesn’t even know the guy.
Why Trump thinks this would somehow assuage fears that the pardon is improper is anyone’s guess.
https://www.citationneeded.news/trump-bi…
Investigation: $28B in crypto tied to illicit activity flowed into crypto exchanges like Binance over the last two years, as President Trump embraces crypto (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/technology/crypto-exchanges-dirty-money.html
Better Payment Network, a BNB Chain-based cross-border stablecoin payments network, raised a $50M seed led by YZi Labs, formerly known as Binance Labs (Timmy Shen/The Block)
https://www.theblock.co/post/374874/yzi-labs-leads-50-million-round-better-…
YZi Labs, formerly Binance Labs, announces a $1B Builder Fund to support long-term founders developing on BNB Chain in areas like trading, AI, and DeFi (Logan Hitchcock/Decrypt)
https://decrypt.co/343392/cz-family-office-kickstarts-1-billion-fund-bnb
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SoftBank-owned PayPay takes a 40% stake in Binance Japan for an undisclosed sum, to capitalize on Japan's crypto boom; PayPay filed for a US IPO in August (Mayumi Negishi/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
When asked about Changpeng Zhao's pardon on 60 Minutes, President Trump says "I don't know who he is" and "I heard it was a Biden witch hunt" (Vince Dioquino/Decrypt)
https://decrypt.co/347140/trump-downplays-knowledge-binan…