Exchanges
Crypto Market Conditions That Fueled FTX, Bankman-Fried, No Longer Hold: Galaxy Digital
U.S. investors now have access to regulated bitcoin ETFs that provide the same protections as buying stocks and reduce the incentive to move to unregulated offshore exchanges, the report said.

Thai Crypto Exchange Bitkub Plans 2025 IPO: Bloomberg
The exchange's owner signaled its intention to sell shares to the public in a 2023 letter that didn't give a timeframe.

OKX’s Global Compliance Chief Left After Six Months
Patrick Donegan, whose LinkedIn profile says he managed a team of 300 people around the world, was at OKX from August 2023 to January 2024.

KuCoin Withdrawals Spike to $1B in Crypto Amid U.S. Regulatory Clampdown
The surge occurred as U.S. federal prosecutors charged the exchange and two of its founders with violating anti-money laundering laws on Tuesday.

OKX Quietly Settled Regulatory 'Failings' With Malta Financial Services Authority
The 304,000 euro ($329,000) “goodwill” settlement with MFSA related to OKX’s Okcoin Europe subsidiary.

Coinbase Upgraded to Neutral as Goldman Sachs Ends Bearish Stance
The bank lifted its rating on the stock after bitcoin hit record highs and the crypto exchange’s trading volume reached levels not seen since 2021.

Bankrupt Cryptopia Exchange to Return Crypto to Some Creditors
The New Zealand exchange went offline in 2019 following a cyber attack that saw millions of dollars worth of tokens stolen.

Bitcoin Rally May Slow as Order-Book Imbalance Hints at Profit Taking
The gap between liquidity on the ask and bid sides of the order book within 2% of the market price has widened to nearly five times is usual value, according to data tracked by Kaiko.

Nigeria Detains Binance Executives as It Investigates the Crypto Exchange: Reports
The detentions are not necessarily arrests, a National Security spokesman told Bloomberg.

Mt. Gox: What We Still Don’t Know 10 Years After the Collapse
To commemorate the 10th anniversary of the collapse of bitcoin exchange MtGox, Mark Hunter, author of “Ultimate Catastrophe: How MtGox Lost Half a Billion Dollars and Nearly Killed Bitcoin,” tackles the questions that still remain unanswered ten years later.

