Binance.US, the American branch of global cryptocurrency exchange Binance, has announced that it is eliminating over forty crypto trading pairs currently available on its platform. The total number of trading pairs will be reduced to 226.
Компанијата беше обвинет on June 5 with allegedly violating U.S. securities laws, per the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Binance’s Chief Executive Officer, Changpeng Zhao, is also being targeted by the agency.
Binance.САД also announced that it is pausing its Over-The-Counter (OTC) desk. According to на печатот, these actions will go into effect on the morning of June 8.
Among the cryptocurrencies to be removed, the majority use the стабилен Tether (USDT) as its pair. This list includes notable examples such as Aave, Basic Attention Token (БАТ), Bitcoin Cash (BCH) ZCash (ЗЕЦ) и Сложените (COMP) along with dozens of other tokens.
Bitcoin will see the removal of eight trading pairs, including Cosmos (ATOM), Полкадот (ДОТ), и Тезос (XTZ) меѓу другите.
Binance’s native stablecoin, BUSD, will lose its pair against Hedera Hashgraph (ХБАР) и хармонија (ЕДЕН).
Interestingly, several of the cryptocurrencies that are present in the SEC’s lawsuit as alleged unregulated securities, are missing from this list. For the time being, they will continue to be on offer on the platform. These include Binance coin (БНБ), многуаголник (МАТИК), И Солана (SOL) among others.
Today’s news comes as the company is under swift legal action from financial authorities in the land of Uncle Sam. Yesterday, the SEC праша a U.S. court judge to freeze assets held by Binance.US in an итно движење.
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Source: https://decrypt.co/143741/binance-us-pulls-several-trading-pairs-in-wake-of-sec-lawsuit