Binance met institutional investors and increased the maximum leverage from 20x to 125x for users of its crypto derivative platform Binance Futures.
Some analysts believe that these two events are connected and are an attempt to manipulate the market: the Whale Alert tracking service for large bitcoin transactions recorded the transfer of 10,000 bitcoins from an unknown wallet to the Binance exchange's storage, after which the first cryptocurrency began to fall in price.
The G-7 working group on stablecoins believes that cryptocurrencies have failed in the role of a new reliable means of payment and a way to save capital, but stablecoins have a chance to become a new global currency for convenient and fast international transactions subject to full regulation.
The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) demands to stop the circulation of Gram tokens of the TON blockchain project before the end of all litigation regarding the violation of the draft US laws on ICO. Also, the Commission was not satisfied with the conditions for postponing the launch of the TON platform, which the team offered to its investors.
The Babylon 2.0 update was activated on the Tezos blockchain today, which should change the consensus algorithm and network management mechanism, as well as expand the functionality of smart contracts, making their development easier.
Antivirus developer BlackBerry Cylance discovered a program for hidden mining of the Monero cryptocurrency (XMR) in WAV audio files.
Another ESET antivirus developer has discovered that a Trojan version of the anonymous Tor browser has been stealing bitcoins and funds from QIWI wallets from Russian computers since 2017. A fake browser is distributed through tor-browser.org and torproect.org
Roskomnadzor blocked two cryptocurrency news portals: the English-speaking Cointelegraph and the Russian-speaking Coinspot. The blocking was made on the basis of Article 15.1 149 of the Federal Law of July 27, 2006 “On Information, Information Technologies and the Protection of Information”.
Xiangming Liu, president of the FATF Anti-Money Laundering Development Group, warns that unregulated global stablecoins like Facebook's Libra can interfere with international efforts to prevent money laundering and terrorist financing.