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Bitcoin Price Flash Crash on Binance.US Attributed to Trader Algorithm Bug

It all happened in a blip, and an exchange official says the institutional trading customer has since fixed the issue.

Bitcoin’s 1-minute price chart shows drop to $8,200 at 11:34 UTC. (TradingView/CoinDesk)

Videos

CoinDesk Report: A Black Market Is Flourishing for Fraudulent ‘Verified’ Accounts on Major Crypto Exchanges

A CoinDesk investigation found a black market is flourishing for fake “verified” accounts on major exchanges, including Coinbase Pro and Binance U.S. CoinDesk Reporter Anna Baydakova learned that for $200, users were able to trade crypto with a fake ID. Anna discusses the findings of her investigation.

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Markets

Demand Spike on Binance Played Key Role in Bitcoin Rally: Kaiko

Bitcoin whales on Binance once again acted ahead of another price rally.

Whale (James Wainscoat/Unsplash)

Finance

Associated Press Launches NFT Collection on Binance Marketplace

The news agency is selling digitized versions of photos and articles.

The AP is auctioning an NFT of this image.

Finance

Binance Appoints Its First Chief Regulatory Liaison Officer

Mark McGinness joins the exchange from the Dubai Financial Services Authority, where he spent 16 years as head of international relations.

Binance CEO Changpeng "CZ" Zhao

Videos

Coinbase and Binance Move to Diversify, Stablecoins Under Scrutiny

Coinbase announces NFT platform. Binance launches US$1 billion growth fund. Stablecoins are under greater scrutiny. We’ll have more on those stories and other news shaping the cryptocurrency and blockchain world in this episode of “The Daily Forkast.”

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Finance

Binance Becomes New Shirt Sponsor of Italian Soccer Club Lazio

The world’s largest crypto exchange is also introducing a platform for the trading of tokens linked to soccer clubs.

Flag of Italian soccer club SS Lazio

Policy

Binance to Delist Chinese Yuan Trading From C2C Platform

The crypto exchange will also run “inventory” to make sure none of its users are from mainland China.

People's Bank of China headquarters in Beijing. (Max12Max/Wikimedia Commons)

Finance

Binance Dedicates Another $1B to Smart Chain Project

Binance’s latest move came as a number of other new Ethereum-alternative projects are also dedicating hundreds of millions of dollars in incentives.

Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao. (Akio Kon/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Finance

Binance.US Bumps Brian Shroder to CEO; CFO Departs

The U.S. arm of the cryptocurrency exchange giant named Eric Segal as its interim CFO.

(Jason Alden/Bloomberg via Getty Images)