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Bank of America, Coinbase Ventures Invested in Paxos' $300M Funding Round

The blockchain-based crypto services firm is disclosing more big names from its latest funding round.

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Traders, Unswayed by Axie Infinity Hype, Are Aggressively Shorting AXS

Data underscores that It’s not that easy to win over a crypto trader’s heart.

Axies from the play-to-earn game Axie Infinity.

Finance

FTX Renames Blockfolio Trading App to ... FTX

The trading app, which was acquired by FTX in 2020, now bears its owner's name.

Images of the Blockfolio app from early 2021.

Markets

Binance reduce el límite de apalancamiento a 20x, un día después de que FTX anunciara lo mismo

El exchange de criptomonedas lo impuso para nuevos usuarios y lo extenderá gradualmente a todos sus clientes.

Binance CEO Changpeng "CZ" Zhao

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Binance to Cut Leverage Limit to 20x, a Day After FTX Announces the Same

Binance, the world’s largest crypto exchange by trading volume, is reducing the maximum leverage users can use to trade futures contracts. CEO Changpeng Zhao tweeted Monday the new limit is 20 times leverage, down from 100 times, a day after derivatives exchange FTX announced a similar change. Is this part of a broader effort by Binance to help avoid the worst of a future regulatory storm?

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Binance to Cut Leverage Limit to 20x, a Day After FTX Announces the Same

Binance, the world’s largest crypto exchange by trading volume, is reducing the maximum leverage users can use to trade futures contracts. CEO Changpeng Zhao tweeted Monday the new limit is 20 times leverage, down from 100 times, a day after derivatives exchange FTX announced a similar change.

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Binance Says It's Cutting Leverage Limit to 20x, a Day After FTX Announces the Same

"We didn't want to make this a thingy," Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao posted Monday on Twitter, a week after making the change.

Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao

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FTX Cuts Leverage Limit to 20x From 100x as Criticism of Margin Trading in Crypto Grows

"It's time, we think, to move on from it," CEO Sam Bankman-Fried said in a tweet.

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FTX CEO Says US Is Next Big Target Market

"When you look at FTX US, there's an enormous amount of potential growth in the states," Sam Bankman-Fried said Thursday on CoinDesk TV's "First Mover" program.

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FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried: ‘Huge Expansion Potential For FTX US’

FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried discusses what’s next for his crypto exchange on the heels of a record-breaking $900 million funding round, valuing the firm at $18 billion. “There is huge expansion potential in the States for FTX U.S.,” Bankman-Fried said.

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