SEC Strikes: Seeks Temporary Restraining Order To Freeze Binance.US Assets

Following the increased regulatory oversight over the crypto industry, the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has filed an emergency motion for a temporary restraining order against Binance Holdings Limited, BAM Trading Services, BAM Management US Holdings, and Changpeng Zhao.

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South Korea proposes real-time monitoring to freeze funds on Binance

South Korea proposes a real-time monitoring system to freeze funds on Binance and other major crypto exchanges. The move aims to enhance oversight and combat cryptocurrency-related crimes.

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Binance Assists US Law Enforcement in Seizing $4.4M Linked to North Korean Organized Crime, Freezes Accounts

In the latest development in the fight against cybercrime, Binance, the world’s leading cryptocurrency exchange, has collaborated with US law enforcement to seize $4. 4 million and freeze accounts connected to North Korean organized crime.

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Binance helped US authorities freeze $4.4M linked to DPRK cybercrime orgs

Following “lawfully served warrants,” Binance worked to flag the accounts and tie up the funds.

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Defunct crypto exchange Globix funds frozen as per Gibraltar court orders

A Gibraltar court has ordered several crypto exchanges to hand over customer information and freeze funds related to Globix. Globix's liquidators got an injunction to stop Binance from transferThe post Defunct crypto exchange Globix funds frozen as per Gibraltar court orders appeared first on AMBCrypto.

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Gibraltar Court Orders Crypto Wallet Freezes as Investigators Probe Failed Trader Globix: FT

A Gibraltar court has ordered Binance, Crypto.com, Bitstamp and Kraken to freeze wallets or identify owners linked to the collapsed crypto trader.

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Binance and Huobi freeze $1.4M in crypto linked to North Korean hackers

The North Korean-based hacker outfit Lazarus Group resorted to different privacy mixers attempting to anonymize the stolen funds, but it didn’t work.

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Aave Community Mulls Freezing Binance Stablecoin Amid SEC Pressure

Members of the Aave community are examining whether to freeze BUSD on the platform and the stablecoin's issuer, Paxos, was sued by the SEC today.

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Binance And Huobi Freeze Funds Linked To $100M Harmony One Hack, 124 BTC Recovered

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Back to Square One? Circle's USDC Market Cap Drops Below $50B for First Time Since Terra's Collapse

USDC's utility has taken a hit in the wake of Binance's decision to consolidate order books and Circle's decision to freeze addresses associated with Tornado Cash.

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Binance clarifies it froze Baking Bad corporate account due to law enforcement request, locked assets in agency custody

Binance said it froze Tezos (XTZ) tool contributor Baking Bad’s corporate account because of a law enforcement request and said that Baking Bad is aware of the issue behind the freeze as it was notified multiple times.

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Binance Hits Back At Reuters, Claims Data Sharing Report With Russia Is ‘Categorically False’

Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, has received extensive media notice in recent months. Reuters stated that in response to the Ukrainian government’s call to freeze all Russian cryptocurrency accounts, Binance would block Russian customer accounts targeted by sanctions but not all of them.

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Crypto exchanges consider Ukraine’s call to freeze Russians’ Bitcoin

As some platforms freeze accounts linked to Russia and Belarus, Binance said it will not block innocent Russians’ crypto assets.

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Binance CEO Zhao Clashes With Elon Musk Over ‘Shady’ Dogecoin Withdrawal Freeze

The world’s richest man and CEO of Tesla, Elon Musk, started a Twitter warfare with Binance’s CZ over the current Dogecoin situation that resulted in the execution of a string of DOGE of transactions from a year ago, and user accounts being completely frozen.

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Here’s Why Dogecoin Withdrawals Are Frozen On Binance

Dogecoin withdrawals have been frozen on the leading crypto exchange Binance. The freeze has led investors to question the exchange’s motives. But it would seem that it was a move that was made out of necessity.

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Crypto Exchanges Ordered to Freeze Hacker’s ‘Wallet’

Coinbase, Kraken, Gemini, Binance US, Bitmax and other exchanges face a motion to freeze a ‘wallet’ belonging to a crypto hacker. Mark Shin sued the ICON Foundation for improperly interfering...

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Steem is ‘Overly Centralized’ Says CZ While Announcing Support for the Controversial Hard Fork

The leading spot exchange Binance has received a request to upgrade the STEEM network to version 0.23. This controversial hard fork earlier this week aimed to freeze 23.6 million STEEM tokens worth $5 million of 65 accounts and reduce the un-staking time to 4 weeks from 13 weeks. In an attempt to prevent the takeover […]

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Binance Freezes Funds Sent from Address Linked to $49M Upbit Hack

Hackers breached crypto exchange Upbit in November 2019, making off with $49 million in crypto — yesterday they tried to sell stolen Ethereum on Binance With so many exchanges being breached in the past few years, Binance and other major exchanges have resolved to freeze any hack-related funds sent to their platforms.

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Binance Quashes Upbit Hackers’ Attempt to Launder Stolen Funds

Binance managed to see an alert and freeze the stolen funds in little more than half an hour.

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Hackers Keep Moving Ethereum They Got on Upbit - $37.5 mln in ETH Transferred

The culprits who stole slightly over 300,000 ETH from Upbit recently are moving it in small portions, CZ has promised to freeze the crypto, should it end up on Binance

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Huobi US to Rival Binance.US as Huobi Global Planning to Freeze Accounts of U.S. Residents

Coinspeaker Huobi US to Rival Binance. US as Huobi Global Planning to Freeze Accounts of U. S. ResidentsHuobi Global announced on November 4 that it plans to freeze all US user accounts by November 13 advising them to shift to Huobi.

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Binance’s CZ Expects Bitcoin To Break From $8,000 Range: Will It Happen?

For one reason or another, the past few weeks have seen Bitcoin (BTC) and its ilk freeze. The cryptocurrency market has been stuck in an odd holding pattern, whereas volatility has fallen, trading ranges have been established, and volume has begun to diminish.

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Binance Prepares for Trading Freeze on Scheduled Maintenance

The exchange is showing robust activity despite the recent hack and the closing of deposits and withdrawals.

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Bitcoin Stock Slapped with Trading Freeze Amid SEC Probe

By CCN: Shares of Bitcoin Generation (BTGN), a little-known Bitcoin stock, last traded at 9 cents. They will remain there until at least May 10 while the Securities and Exchange Commission launches a probe into the Oklahoma-based company’s finances.

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Binance exchange promises to freeze ‘identify-able stolen funds’ post DragonEx hack

DragonEx, a Singapore-based cryptocurrency exchange, was hacked on 26 March, with many users losing huge sums of their cryptocurrency assets. The exchange claimed that a part of the stolen assets was retrieved and that they were working on recovering the remaining amount.

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Часть похищенных средств с биржи DragonEx попала на Binance

CEO криптовалютной биржи Binance Чангпенг Жао прокомментировал события, связанные со взломом сингапурской криптоплатформы DragonEx, которая ранее призвала Binance заморозить средства, зачисленные на её кошельки.

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Singapore’s DragonEx Reports Hack, Releases Suspected Wallet Addresses

The Singapore-based cryptocurrency exchange DragonEx has announced a security breach to its users via its official Telegram channel. In the message, a company administrator revealed that the hackers stole assets belonging to both the exchange and its users.

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Binance Freezes Funds Stolen by Hackers from Cryptopia

The CEO of Binance, Changpeng Zhao, was made aware via twitter of the presence of funds in the exchange that had been stolen from Cryptopia. CZ, as he is famously known, acknowledged that they identified the funds and had been able to freeze some of them.

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Ethereum, Token Deposits to Binance Reopened after Short Freeze

On Friday, the exchange announced technical problems with Ethereum deposits and ERC-20 tokens, closing its wallets temporarily.

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Binance Adds Controversial Stablecoin Paxos (PAX) Amid Widespread Concerns About Coin Freeze

One of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges in the world, Binance, is home to a huge list of coins trying to make a mark in the cryptocurrency world. However, a recent listing by the exchange has sparked both controversy and concern from some experts.

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Binance Lists Paxos (PAX) Stablecoin as Critics Flag Back Door for Law Enforcement

The PAX digital asset, which is now listed on Binance, has raised concerns of a backdoor allowing for the freeze of tokens.

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Skycoin Freezes Funds After Staff ‘Take CEO Hostage’ And Steal 18 BTC

Allegations of criminal activity continue at Skycoin as executives freeze funds to contain fallout from a theft by the coin’s own marketing team. 18 BTC, Skycoins Stolen In ‘Burglarization’ Skycoin, which describes itself as “the most advanced blockchain platform in the world,” saw massive sell-offs this month after it emerged insider trading had taken place around the time Binance announced it would list the coin in May.

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