Binance, the world's leading blockchain and cryptocurrency infrastructure provider, and Mastercard announce the launch of Binance Card in Brazil. Brazil is among the top 10 markets for Binance globally and becomes the second country in Latin America to have the product, following its release last year in Argentina. The prepaid card is part of the ongoing efforts toward evolving the bridge between existing financial services and the growing crypto

DOWNLOAD THE FULL REPORT HEREOverall, 2022 served as a wake-up call and juxtaposed the highs of 2021. Nonetheless, volatility is part and parcel of market cycles. This is not something new for the crypto industry, and we remain cautiously optimistic looking into 2023.L1s had an eventful year. Ethereum transitioned to Proof-of-Stake, BNB Chain and Polygon gained market share in the vacuum left by Terra’s collapse, and new L1s such as Aptos and Sui

Main TakeawaysBinance granted registration by the Swedish Financial Supervisory Authority on January 10, 2023.Binance now authorised in seven EU Member States and fifteen jurisdictions worldwide.Binance is pleased to announce that Binance Nordics AB has been granted registration as a financial institution for management and trading in virtual currency by the Swedish Financial Supervisory Authority (Swedish FSA). This follows months of constructiv

Happy New Year! The Weekly Market Highlights is an initiative from the Binance Research team to round up the week, summarizing key market events and views from the team. 🔎 Macro / TradFiIn a signal that higher rates are here to stay, minutes from the latest Federal Open Market Committee (“FOMC”) meeting made it clear that the Fed’s “restrictive policy stance would need to be maintained” until there is “substantially more evidence of progress” to

Voyager Digital, the bankrupt crypto lender, said Binance.US has agreed to buy its assets for $1.022 billion, the firm said on Monday.The bid represents the fair market value of Voyager's cryptocurrency portfolio, which has a current market value of around $1.002 billion, and an additional consideration of $20 million in incremental value."The Binance.US bid aims to return crypto to customers in kind, in accordance with court-approved disbursemen

There has been a lot of FUD in the crypto world lately. Some of it is justified. Some of it is not. Some of it is genuinely just confused.I’ve been asked at least 5+ times today what is going on with BUSD, why USDC withdrawals were halted, what wrapped/pegged/bridged BUSD is, why [insert stablecoin here] is going to zero, and other increasingly hysterical questions.This is my attempt to answer most of them. If you have more after reading it, ask.

 News Roundup Binance To Give NFT-based Certificates As It Launches Free Crypto Courses - On Nov 17, Binance published free courses for its millions of users to educate on cryptocurrency, blockchain, Web3, and the metaverse. Once the learners complete all these courses, the platform will reward them with an NFT certificate. Mattel Is Launching a Hot Wheels NFT Collection in its Brand New Marketplace - The NFT marketplace, “Mattel Creations,” will

Altcoin performance has been skewed this week, many are still down double digits despite BTC bouncing. LTC has unexpectedly outperformed the market, as volume increased 29.15% on our convert portal followed by a subsequent price increase of over 34% in the last 7 days. DOT has seen a further price drop of 6.1% this week. However the project continues to expand as t3rn, a Polkadot-based blockchain interoperability protocol, raised $6,5m in a strat

Binance, the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange, on Friday released its proof-of-reserves system, intended to show evidence for the exchange's ability to cover its users' assets one for one.By way of explanation, Binance said that when a user buys one bitcoin token, Binance buys one bitcoin token and holds that specific token until the user decides to sell or swap it for another asset. "What this means in actual terms is that Binance holds a

Binance, the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange, on Thursday announced the launch of a recovery initiative for the crypto industry, through which the exchange and other participants will evaluate investment opportunities in companies and projects that are facing significant short-term difficulties.Officially called the "Industry Recovery Initiative", the programme will allow Binance and other interested parties - with pre-existing capital co