Trump's $100 million crypto mystery manA venture calling itself Aqua 1 Foundation and saying it is based in the United Arab Emirates announced in late June it had bought $100 mil...
11 Jul, 2025, 04.42 PM IST
How two allies wrestled over a crypto giant and a prisonerTigran Gambaryan, a compliance officer for Binance, had been held on money laundering charges as part of a sweeping Nigerian government cas...
25 Oct, 2024, 10.50 AM IST
Who's afraid of cryptocurrency?The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has approved 11 exchange-traded funds (ETFs) on the spot price of bitcoin. While many hoped...
24 Jan, 2024, 11.29 PM IST
Binance withdraws Abu Dhabi licence bid as crypto giant weighs structureThe Binance unit, called BV Investment Management, pulled the application with Abu Dhabi's financial regulator, a spokesperson for Binance ...
08 Dec, 2023, 12.08 AM IST
Binance to sell Russia business to crypto exchange CommEXBinance will have no ongoing revenue split from the sale, nor does it maintain any option to buy back shares in the business, the world's l...
27 Sep, 2023, 02.45 PM IST
Binance says to sell Russia business to CommEXBinance will have no ongoing revenue split from the sale, nor does it maintain any option to buy back shares in the business, the world's l...
27 Sep, 2023, 01.54 PM IST
Crypto detectives are cleaning up by cracking downWhen cryptocurrencies hit the mainstream in the 2010s, the technology was widely viewed as a perfect vehicle for crime. A drug dealer or sc...
22 Apr, 2023, 05.00 PM IST
Phishing attacks up 50%, education sector most targeted: ReportPhishing is a technique that attempts to acquire sensitive data, such as bank account numbers, through a fraudulent solicitation in email o...
18 Apr, 2023, 04.09 PM IST
Binance moved $346 million for seized crypto exchange Bitzlato, data showBinance, the world's largest crypto exchange, was among Bitzlato's top three counterparties by the amount of bitcoin received between May 2...
24 Jan, 2023, 05.23 PM IST
ED probing at least 10 crypto exchanges; fintech firms want clarity on new lending rulesThe Enforcement Directorate (ED) is probing at least 10 crypto currency exchanges for allegedly laundering more than Rs 1,000 crore identif...
11 Aug, 2022, 08.54 AM IST
Binance served crypto traders in Iran for years despite U.S. sanctions, reportsThe Iranian trading on Binance could draw interest from U.S. regulators, seven lawyers and sanctions experts told Reuters.
11 Jul, 2022, 05.49 PM IST
How crypto giant Binance became a hub for hackers, fraudsters and drug traffickersIn as little as nine minutes, using only encrypted email addresses as identification, the Lazarus hackers created Binance accounts and trad...
07 Jun, 2022, 08.18 PM IST
GoTo sizzles on debut, sets tone for booming Indonesia tech sectorGoTo soared as much as 23% in its stock market debut on Monday after Indonesia's largest tech company raised $1.1 billion in a widely antic...
11 Apr, 2022, 10.11 AM IST
Russians liquidating crypto in the UAE as they seek safe havensOne crypto firm has received lots of queries in the past 10 days from Swiss brokers asking to liquidate billions of dollars of bitcoin beca...
11 Mar, 2022, 10.39 PM IST
Crypto breaks ranks on Russia; Rajeev Misra to oversee SoftBank’s Latin American teamLarge crypto companies such as Coinbase and Binance are breaking ranks with mainstream finance, saying they don’t plan on “preemptively” ba...
04 Mar, 2022, 06.51 PM IST
Crypto exchanges won't bar Russians, raising fears of sanctions backdoorBut many of the world's largest crypto exchanges - including Binance and U.S.-based Kraken and Coinbase - have stopped short of a blanket b...
02 Mar, 2022, 08.31 PM IST
IMF asks El Salvador to drop bitcoin, more countries clamp downThe International Monetary Fund (IMF) has urged El Salvador to drop bitcoin as a legal tender, citing risks to the nation's financial stabi...
26 Jan, 2022, 04.04 PM IST