In his first interview after FTX crashed in November, Binance chief Changpeng Zhao (CZ) insisted that Binance is a clean exchange — that it matches trades but doesn’t trade futures or act like a trading shop.

However, yesterday’s complaint filed by the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission against Binance, CZ, and chief compliance officer, Samuel Lim, suggests that the firm most definitely is a trading shop. According to the suit filed in Chicago federal court, Binance has its own unregistered trading operation through its “quant desk.” 

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The former Chinese billionaire behind the ill-fated Himalaya exchange and stablecoin reportedly pulled the strings at right-wing media outlet Gettr, using the platform to promote cryptocurrencies and conservative propaganda, according to former Gettr employees who spoke to The Washington Post.

Guo Wengui was a known Gettr investor but, as of last Sunday, it’s now apparent how big a role he had to play in financing, hiring, and making content decisions for the platform.

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Terraform Labs founder Do Kwon registered a consultancy company in Serbia just three weeks after Interpol issued an international warrant for his arrest, according to business registry officials speaking to DL News.

Official records obtained by the outlet show a company called Codokoj22 was registered in the old town of Belgrade by Kwon and his business associate Han Chang-joon. The pair were arrested together in Montenegro for document forgery and traveling on a fake passport, after attempting to board a private jet to Dubai last week. Both deny the charges.

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Political consultant and cryptocurrency advocate Samuel Armes announced last week that he is planning “a war-gaming session in Miami” to coincide with the Bitcoin 2023 conference. Armes was questioned last year by the House select committee for his alleged connections to the Proud Boy conspiracy and the January 6 insurrection.

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The serial entrepreneur, tech bigwig, and singer Jeffrey Huang, better known in the crypto world as Machi Big Brother, has suffered realized losses of up to 2,400 ETH ($4.2 million) thanks to his attempts to farm tokens from the Blur NFT exchange.

Traders on Blur have been involved in so-called ‘farming wars,’ buying up and selling large amounts of NFTs to collect Blur tokens awarded against the user’s activity on the exchange.

But some traders like Huang have taken this farming to a very serious level, buying and selling mainly blue-chip NFTs such as Bored Ape Yacht Club and CryptoPunks in very large volumes.

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Two years ago, billionaire entrepreneur Peter Thiel suggested that, during a cryptography conference 23 years ago, he met the person or group calling themselves Satoshi Nakamoto. He even came close to admitting he knew Satoshi’s precise identity. Now, following Thiel’s colleague Balaji Srinivasan predicting that bitcoin will be worth $1 million, these rumours have come to the surface again.

It’s possible that Thiel did know Satoshi as he did run in the same circles as them — from being a member of the PayPal Mafia to befriending Srinivasan and the founder of the first Bitcoin magazine, Vitalik Buterin.

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A report by CNBC claims to have revealed how Binance employees and volunteers are helping Binance users to avoid KYC checks.

CNBC translated a Chinese language Binance Discord server and Telegram group and found that Binance staff are showing customers how to bypass Binance KYC checks.

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It’s been an extraordinarily difficult week for crypto companies and scammers, from a Wells Notice for Coinbase and crypto getting slammed by the White House, to Do Kwon getting apprehended with fake identification documents in Montenegro, there seems to be no escaping the long arm of the law.

But the strangest behavior from anyone currently being eviscerated by law enforcement has to be that of Justin Sun, founder of the Tron blockchain and owner of several cryptocurrency exchanges.

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Interpol has confirmed that Terraform Labs founder Do Kwon has been arrested in Montenegro’s capital city airport attempting to board a plane to Dubai with falsified Costa Rican and Belgium passports. The United States has subsequently filed eight counts of criminal charges against Kwon.

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Following “constructive negotiations,” Sam Bankman-Fried’s bankrupt FTX has inked a deal to pull back more than $460 million in assets from Modulo Capital, the Bahamas-based hedge fund that received $475 million from Alameda Research back in 2022.

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