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Binance Provided Customer Data to Russian Authorities, Later Used in Terror Financing Case

Odaily News Cryptocurrency exchange Binance provided Russian authorities with customer transaction records and identity information, which were subsequently used in a terror financing case against IT specialist Yuri Belenkiy. Yuri Belenkiy was detained in September 2025 and is currently awaiting trial in Russia. The Russian Investigative Committee accused Yuri Belenkiy of donating more than $700 in cryptocurrency to the Ukrainian military and banned organizations between January 2023 and March 2024. The data obtained by Russian authorities included his transaction history, date of birth, address, phone number, Russian passport, and Bulgarian residence permit. Binance announced its full exit from Russia in September 2023, selling its local business to CommEX. Binance stated that the company is not responsible for formulating or enforcing laws in any jurisdiction, nor does it determine the content of charges or how governments use information in legal proceedings. The company cooperates with legitimate information requests from global law enforcement agencies, subject to applicable laws, privacy, and regulatory requirements. (Cointelegraph)

Binance previously provided customer information to Moscow authorities for use in accusing Russian citizens of donating to Ukraine.

According to Reuters, Binance provided Russian authorities with a customer's transaction records and identity information, which were subsequently used in a terrorist financing case. Russian investigators stated that IT expert Yuri Belenky donated over $700 via cryptocurrency to fundraising activities related to the Ukrainian military and a banned organization between January 2023 and March 2024.

Binance Futures Will List USDT-Margined TradFi Perpetual Contracts for Zhongji Innolight and Multiple Others

Binance will launch 6 USDT-quoted perpetual contracts on traditional financial assets on August 14, with underlying assets covering Hong Kong stocks, Korean stocks, and the South Korea KODEX 200 ETF, including Zhongji Innolight (3308.HK), Samsung Electro-Mechanics (009150.KS), Hanmi Semiconductor (042700.KS), LG Electronics (066570.KS), NAVER (035420.KS), and KODEX 200 ETF (069500.KS).

WonderFi Founder Criticizes Canada's Innovation Environment: Struggling to Grow, Forced into Sale to Robinhood

Odaily News - Karia Samaroo, founder and former CEO of Canadian crypto company WonderFi, recently stated that the company's acquisition by US trading platform Robinhood Markets for CAD 250 million was not due to a lack of growth potential, but rather because Canada's market environment has restricted local tech companies from continuing to scale.Samaroo said that WonderFi was founded in 2021. After several years of development, the company consolidated Canada's fragmented crypto market, built a nationwide brand, and survived the QuadrigaCX collapse, the FTX crash, and Canada's strict crypto regulatory environment. By 2023, WonderFi had become a leading crypto platform in the Canadian market.However, he believes that succeeding in Canada was not the company's ultimate goal. WonderFi had originally hoped to grow into a global enterprise, and Robinhood saw WonderFi as a strategic gateway into the Canadian market, which led to the CAD 250 million acquisition. Samaroo pointed out that Canada has long faced structural issues that limit companies' ability to scale, including insufficient venture capital, weak public markets, regulatory fragmentation, and declining attractiveness of entrepreneurial returns.For the crypto industry, the challenges are even more pronounced. Samaroo noted that after the QuadrigaCX incident, Canadian regulators established one of the world's strictest crypto regulatory frameworks. While the original intent was to protect investors, it also increased operational costs for businesses. International trading platforms including Binance, OKX, Bybit, and Gemini all entered the Canadian market previously and then exited. He believes that Canada's crypto regulations are not only strict but also compounded by fragmented securities regulatory systems, leading to higher financing costs, increased operational complexity, and diminished interest from overseas investors.Samaroo said that WonderFi is not an isolated case—many Canadian tech companies have followed a similar trajectory: growing domestically until hitting market ceilings, then ultimately seeking overseas capital or strategic buyers. Shopify founder Tobi Lütke has also previously criticized Canada for repeatedly "nurturing important companies only to send them abroad." Restricting corporate sales can easily become a political statement, but the real key to solving the problem lies in building a business environment that supports companies in financing, expansion, and competing globally.Robinhood previously announced the acquisition of WonderFi for approximately CAD 250 million. This deal also reflects the accelerating consolidation in the North American crypto industry, as US platforms expand into other markets through M&A. (Fortune)

Polymarket probability of "GRVT FDV above $350M one day after launch" drops to 6%, down 25% in 24 hours

PPP Prediction Market Tool monitoring shows that on Polymarket, the probability of "GRVT FDV above $350M one day after launch" has dropped to 6%, down 25% in the past 24 hours.This event will be settled on day 1 after the GRVT governance token goes live, based on whether its fully diluted valuation (FDV) is higher than the specified value in the title.If the FDV on day 1 after the GRVT token listing is higher than the specified value, the event settles as "Yes"; otherwise, it settles as "No".For the token listing, it must meet the conditions of being publicly transferable and tradeable. FDV will be calculated by multiplying the total token supply by the token price."Day 1 after listing" is defined as 16:00 (ET) on the next calendar day after the listing date. The settlement price will reference the most liquid price source.Previously reported, Binance Futures has listed the GRVTUSDT perpetual contract with up to 10x leverage.Join the PPP Signal Push Community to stay ahead and seize the opportunity.

DeAgentAI Completes $5 Million AIA Buyback Program, Second Batch Burn Executed

: DeAgentAI, a decentralized AI infrastructure project on the SUI and BNB ecosystems, announced that its total buyback program of $5 million worth of AIA tokens has been fully executed. The first batch, involving the burning of 1 million AIA tokens, was completed earlier. This second batch burn of 10 million AIA tokens has now been completed, bringing the cumulative total burned to 11 million tokens, accounting for 23.1% of the total repurchased amount. All tokens have been sent to a black hole address for permanent destruction.Furthermore, DeAgentAI announced the official launch of a quarterly burning mechanism. Going forward, the AIA burn plan will be executed on a quarterly basis, marking the deflation mechanism's entry into a normalized phase. The funds for the buyback come from the project's protocol revenue and profits from its proprietary AI trading models, and are unrelated to external financing or token inflation.

GoPlus and Salus Officially Join TermiX Agent.family, Launching On-Chain Security Audit Provider Agent Services

: BNB Chain Agent commercial clearing layer TermiX announced that Web3 security infrastructure GoPlus and smart contract security auditing firm Salus have officially become Provider Agents on the Agent.family platform. They have launched two production-grade security audit services, promoting the autonomous invocation and settlement of "security capability as a service" for AI Agents in on-chain commercial scenarios.GoPlus has packaged its verified token contract deep scanning capability as a standard Provider Agent service. DeepScan conducts comprehensive security checks on token contracts, identifying risk patterns such as Rug Pulls, honeypot scams, contract permission abuse, and trading restrictions, and generates structured audit reports.Salus has launched smart contract auditing and penetration testing services, encompassing formal verification, fuzz testing, machine learning-based vulnerability detection, and manual expert auditing. It covers high-risk vulnerability categories such as reentrancy attacks, access control issues, integer overflows, and DoS attacks. Salus, a seed-stage investment from Binance Labs, is a core security partner within the BNB Chain ecosystem.

Binance Quanto Perpetual Contracts Launch Tencent and Xiaomi Hong Kong Stock Trading

on July 22 that Binance has officially launched the HK0700 USDT (Tencent) and HK1810 USDT (Xiaomi) Hong Kong stock trading pairs on its Quanto perpetual contracts.Binance Quanto perpetual contracts allow users to trade non-USD-denominated stocks using local currencies without the need for foreign exchange conversion, lowering the barrier to entry while enhancing trading convenience. Binance TradFi products now support 140 trading pairs, and the trading volume of its TradFi perpetual contracts over the past week has approached $100 billion, continuously expanding users' one-stop experience in trading traditional financial assets.

TokenInsight: Binance, Bitget, and OKX Form the Core Tier of Stock Contracts, Accounting for 82% Market Share

according to the latest report data from TokenInsight, the TradFi perpetual contract market continued its rapid growth trend in Q2 2026, with the competitive landscape further concentrating. Binance ranked first with a trading volume of approximately $380 billion, holding a market share of about 59.96%; Bitget ranked second with approximately 11.01%, and OKX ranked third with approximately 10.97%. The two platforms each had a quarterly trading volume of around $69 billion, forming the core tier of the market alongside Binance.From the perspective of platform penetration rates, the proportion of TradFi perpetual contracts in the derivatives business of different exchanges still shows significant variation. Among them, Binance leads with a penetration rate of 8.65%, closely followed by Bitget at 8.61%, indicating that top-tier platforms are accelerating the integration of traditional financial assets into the crypto derivatives market.

Binance Futures Launches 7 TradFi USDT Perpetual Contracts

According to the official announcement, Binance Futures will sequentially list a total of 7 USDT perpetual contracts based on traditional financial assets on July 9, 2026, including BOTUSDT, WENUSDT, INTWUSDT, SNXXUSDT, XBIUSDT, BNCUSDT, and FWDIUSDT. The underlying assets cover US individual stocks and ETFs, with maximum leverage of 25x, funding rates settled every 8 hours, and support for 24/7 trading.

ZachXBT: LAB Plunges 85% in 24 Hours, Advises Against Trading the Token

on-chain investigator ZachXBT stated that the LAB token has fallen from $14 to under $2 in the past 24 hours, a drop of approximately 85%, with its fully diluted valuation (FDV) shrinking sharply from around $14 billion.ZachXBT expressed disappointment that Binance, Bitget, and Gate did not take proactive measures to prevent price manipulation. He stated that if centralized exchanges truly valued user interests, they should at least return profits from accounts suspected of market manipulation to users.He also pointed out that LAB investors were originally scheduled to begin unlocking tokens later this month, but the vesting schedule has been repeatedly modified. Insiders have long controlled nearly the entire circulating supply and have used market makers to carry out extreme price manipulation on centralized exchanges. Therefore, he "does not recommend trading LAB under any circumstances."

加密支付公司 Mesh 正进行由币安领投的新一轮融资,估值最高达 20 亿美元

According to Axios, crypto payment and settlement company Mesh is raising a new round of financing led by Binance, with the company's valuation expected to reach up to $2 billion after the financing is completed.

AI Economy Infrastructure Astarter Announces Strategic Support from Vega Ventures, UZ Capital, and Other Institutions

: According to official sources, Astarter, an autonomous AI Economy infrastructure on the BNB Chain ecosystem, has announced strategic support from institutions including Vega Ventures, UZ Capital, Go2Mars, and BitBT Ventures, further strengthening its AI ecosystem layout. Astarter had previously received lead investment from EMURGO, along with strategic support from other institutions such as MH Ventures, Avstar Capital, 316VC, CRT Labs, and Megala Ventures.It is reported that Astarter aims to build a full-stack infrastructure on the BNB Chain for AI agents, providing on-chain AI agents with dedicated computing power, runtime execution, on-chain settlement, and identity capabilities. Its products encompass the AI computing power node ABox, a decentralized exchange (DEX), a Launchpad, and the CORE agent layer, with the native token being AST. The Astarter mainnet and TGE are planned for launch in the third quarter of 2026. This strategic partnership is expected to further advance Astarter's development in computing power networks, products, and ecosystem.

Data: Binance, Bitget, and OKX Account for Approximately 83% of SK Hynix's Total Open Interest Across the Network

previously, multiple political parties in South Korea discussed including unrealized stock gains in comprehensive taxation, raising concerns about high-valuation tech stocks and triggering a circuit breaker on KOSPI. Affected by this news, SK Hynix's stock price fell over 8%, leading to increased trading attention in related contract markets.According to CoinGlass data, the total open interest for SK HYNIX contracts across the network is currently $184 million. The liquidity for this underlying asset is primarily concentrated on leading trading platforms, with Binance, Bitget, and OKX ranking in the top three for open interest. Their respective shares of open interest are 56.58% ($104 million), 15.81% ($29.05 million), and 11.4% ($20.96 million), collectively accounting for approximately 83% of the market share.

Polymarket's "Arcium FDV Above $300M One Day After Launch" probability rises to 93%, up 58% in 24 hours

Odaily Seer Prophecy Channel monitoring shows that the Polymarket "Arcium FDV Above $300M One Day After Launch" probability has risen to 93%, up 58% in 24 hours.According to the rules, if the fully diluted valuation of Arcium's officially issued token exceeds the target value at 4:00 PM Eastern Time on the day after its launch, the event will be settled as "Yes"; otherwise, it will be settled as "No."FDV is calculated as the total token supply multiplied by the token price. Only tokens officially issued by Arcium that are publicly tradable are valid. Stablecoins, Meme coins, liquid staking tokens (LSTs), and synthetic assets are excluded from the calculation. If Arcium has not issued a token by 23:59 Eastern Time on December 31, 2027, the event will be settled as "No."Previous news: Binance Futures will list the ARXUSDT perpetual contract.Odaily Seer Prophecy Channel continues to monitor the prediction market, spotting changes before prices are set.

Renaiss, an RWA infrastructure protocol for collectibles, has closed a $1.5 million seed funding round led by YZi Labs.

Renaiss, a real-world collectibles liquidity infrastructure, announced the successful completion of a $1.5 million seed funding round, led by YZi Labs, with participation from Gate Ventures, Hash Global, XIN Family, and Redline Labs. Angel investors include Mask Network, Far East Group, Logoman, Hoopi, and Legit App. Built on BNB Chain, Renaiss aims to connect third-party vaults, card shops, and custodial nodes via its Renaiss Vault OS, while Renaiss.XYZ serves as the application layer enabling users to access the on-chain collectibles market. Renaiss provides verifiable custody, standardized settlement, and on-chain liquidity for physical collectibles—eliminating friction in verification, custody, pricing, and cross-border transactions. This allows custodially verified collectibles to undergo ownership transfers on-chain and circulate globally in a trustless, permissionless manner. The funds will be used to expand the vault network, strengthen product development and integration with the Renaiss SDK ecosystem, broaden the range of supported collectible categories, drive global market expansion, and support infrastructure development for DeFi integration and AI Agents. Notably, Renaiss has been selected as a project in the third cohort of YZi Labs’ EASY Residency incubation program.

Polychain and Coinbase-backed Satori Finance Announces Shutdown

Odaily报道: Satori Finance, a multi-chain decentralized exchange backed by investors including Polychain Capital and Coinbase Ventures, has announced it will cease operations and begin the closure process. The platform stated that due to "prolonged unfavorable market conditions," its revenue is insufficient to support continued operations, leading to the decision to gradually wind down. Users must withdraw their assets before 23:59 UTC on July 16, after which the platform will no longer be accessible.In 2022, Satori Finance completed a $10 million seed funding round led by Polychain Capital, with participation from Coinbase Ventures and Jump Crypto. The platform was deployed across multiple networks including Arbitrum, Optimism, and BNB Chain, and initially featured 25x leverage and an "points mining" incentive model. (The Block)

SPCX Pre-Market Contract Prices to Shrink by 10%, TradeXYZ Announces No Adjustments

on-chain analyst Ai Yi posted on platform X, stating that SPCX is about to launch, and the total share capital of SpaceX has been adjusted to 13.08 billion shares, an increase of 10%. Under the same total valuation, the pre-market contract prices will shrink by 10%, affecting platforms that have previously listed this asset and their users. Exchanges such as Binance have followed up with a rebase, and the perpetual DEX Aster has also chosen to proactively adjust to prevent user losses. TradeXYZ has announced that it will not make any adjustments, adhering to its stance as a "price-based perpetual contract," leading to long positions suffering losses. It stated that stock splits are not uncommon in US stocks, where large-cap tech stocks undergo forward stock splits due to excessively high single-share values to facilitate trading. The TradeXYZ team indicated that a solution will be provided.

Binance Wallet Launches SpaceX Tokenized Stock Subscription Campaign, Users with 200 Alpha Points Can Get 500,000 Staking Quota

that, according to an official announcement, Binance Wallet will launch the SPCXx IPO Campaign, offering eligible users the opportunity to subscribe to tokenized SpaceX shares through xStocks. The subscription window is from 16:30 to 12:00 (UTC+8) on June 11 to June 12.The announcement indicates that the subscription target is the SpaceX tokenized stock SPCXx, with an indicative price of 135 USDC per share, corresponding to an implied valuation of approximately $1.75 trillion. Subscriptions are supported in USDC, with a minimum subscription amount of 100 USDC, and a 5% underwriting service fee will be charged.This event employs a Binance Wallet Alpha Points interval quota mechanism, where users with Alpha Points greater than 0, 40, 100, and 200 can obtain corresponding staking quotas of 20,000, 100,000, 200,000, and 500,000, respectively. Users with successful subscriptions will receive the SPCXx token after the issuance is completed.Binance stated that SPCXx does not represent direct ownership of SpaceX shares. Holders do not have shareholder rights such as voting rights or dividend rights, and a subscription application does not guarantee final allocation.

SpaceX IPO Could Become Short-Term Pressure Source for Bitcoin

Odaily News Analysts believe that SpaceX's upcoming IPO could become a new source of short-term pressure for Bitcoin and the crypto market. As the company is reportedly set to open up to 30% of its IPO shares to retail investors, some investors may sell high-risk assets like Bitcoin and Ethereum to free up capital to participate in this high-profile offering.SpaceX plans to issue shares at $135 each, aiming to raise $75 billion, with a valuation of approximately $1.77 trillion. A GSR trading executive noted that crypto assets could become one of the funding sources for some investors looking to raise capital for the IPO.Recently, there have been views suggesting that hot IPOs like SpaceX, and potentially future ones such as OpenAI and Anthropic, could drive capital outflows from the crypto market, putting pressure on Bitcoin and Ethereum prices.However, SpaceX's listing could also conversely boost on-chain trading activity. Currently, platforms like Hyperliquid and Binance already offer SpaceX-related perpetual contracts and tokenized stock products, and trading activity for these assets may increase further with the IPO.