Binance.US isn’t answering important questions, the SEC claims, but the crypto exchange says further requests exceeded the regulator’s bounds. Binance’s United States arm, Binance.US, hasn’t been providing answers to key questions relating to customer assets and other core elements of an ongoing investigation, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission claims. BAM Trading Services — doing...Continue Reading

The new zero-knowledge layer-2 chain is the first to be integrated into AggLayer. Astar Network, a blockchain firm based in Japan, launched Astar zxEVM on March 5, becoming the first layer-2 chain to integrate into Polygon’s AggLayer. Astar zkEVM is a zero-knowledge layer-2 chain designed to enable cross-chain transactions between the Astar and Polygon blockchains....Continue Reading

The partnership is aimed at creating a Web3 hub for Lotte, a South Korean multinational conglomerate corporation that oversees roughly 90 business units. South Korean advertising firm Daehong Communications, a subsidiary of Lotte Group, has partnered with Aptos Foundation to undertake Web3-powered strategic global expansion.  The partnership between Daehong and Aptos marks the commencement of...Continue Reading

The team allegedly sold hundreds of millions of tokens into the market and then disappeared from social media. The team behind cross-chain bridging protocol OrdiZK (OZK) has allegedly performed an exit scam, taking off with $1.4 million worth of investors’ cryptocurrency, according to blockchain security platform CertiK. Certik reports that on March 4, the protocol’s...Continue Reading

U.S.-based Bitcoin ETFs saw $10 billion in trading volume on March 5, beating last week’s $7.7 billion record. The United States spot Bitcoin (BTC) exchange-traded funds (ETF) had a record $10 billion in trading volume on March 5 as Bitcoin notched a new all-time high before it plummeted around 12% over the next five hours....Continue Reading