‘Binance has transactions in banned China market’


The transactions made China Binance’s biggest market by far, accounting for 20% of volume worldwide, excluding trades made by a subset of very large traders, the WSJ said. — Reuters

BEIJING: Binance users traded US$90bil (RM406bil) of cryptocurrency-related assets in a single month in China, where cryptocurrency trading has been illegal since 2021, says the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) citing internal figures and current and former employees of the exchange.

The transactions made China Binance’s biggest market by far, accounting for 20% of volume worldwide, excluding trades made by a subset of very large traders, the WSJ said.

Binance’s origins lie in China, though the world’s largest crypto exchange withdrew from mainland China in 2017 during a regulatory crackdown. It did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for a comment on the Journal report.

“The Binance.com website is blocked in China and is not accessible to China-based users,” a company spokesman told the WSJ. The exchange has also been under the scrutiny of US regulators like the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and the Securities and Exchange Commission.

The CFTC sued Binance for operating what it said were an “illegal” exchange and a “sham” compliance programme. — Reuters

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