Binance-Nigeria Brawl Continues As Country Asks Exchange to Submit List of Top 100 Users
Nigeria is also demanding all transaction history spanning the past six months from Binance.
Nigeria is also demanding all transaction history spanning the past six months from Binance.
The exchange must face a lawsuit, an appeals court ruled. The SEC is all over it.
“We are working collaboratively with Nigerian authorities to bring Nadeem and Tigran back home safely to their families,” a Binance spokesperson told CoinDesk.
The ruling doesn’t have any implications on whether certain crypto tokens are securities.
A spokesperson for the president later denied an amount had been set, People’s Gazette reported.
The detentions are not necessarily arrests, a National Security spokesman told Bloomberg.
The country’s facing a crippling foreign exchange crisis and looking for ways to limit capital outflows, including via crypto.
Binance pleaded guilty to violating sanctions and anti-money laundering laws last year.
BNB holders transferred over $400 million worth of BNB tokens in 24 hours to benefit from cross-chain gaming project Portal’s upcoming airdrop, Arkham Intelligence noted.
The largest crypto exchange in the world stopped offering its services to U.K. customers in October after it failed to comply with a rule change made by regulators last year.