In an announcement today, Binance declared that based on recent reviews, it has decided to delist the Mithril (MITH), Tribe (TRIBE), Augur (REP) and Bitcoin Standard Hashrate Token (BTCST) tokens on December 22, 09:00 (UTC) and cease trading on all trading pairs.

When a coin or token no longer meets standard or the industry changes, Binance conducts a review and potentially delists it.

While testifying at a senate hearing on Dec. 14 regarding the FTX scandal, O’Leary accused Binance of putting FTX out of business to become the global monopoly. O’Leary noted that some of the FTX money went to Binance when Sam Bankman-Fried bought out FTX shares from Binance. 

On Dec. 15, cryptocurrency exchange Binance announced that due to not meeting the "high level of standard we expect," four tokens, including Mithril (MITH) Tribe (TRIBE) Augur (REP) Bitcoin Standard Hashrate Token (BTCST), will be delisted from the exchange effective Dec. 22, 2022. 

Shiba Inu (SHIB) price tumbled over 3% in the last 24 hours, with the current price trading at $0.000008894. On-chain data indicates a big whale dumped over 210 billion SHIB tokens, causing the price to fall over 3% in the last 24 hours. The whale has a history of dumping Shiba Inu tokens that it purchased in 2020.

Crypto exchange Binance has announced the integration of its Futures platform with the popular charting tool/website of Tradingview.com.

Shark Tank star Kevin O’Leary, aka Mr. Wonderful, has told U.S. Congress that he believes the collapsed crypto exchange FTX failed because rival Binance intentionally put it out of business. He said former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) told him that Binance, which owned a 20% equity stake in FTX, refused to comply with regulators’ requests whenever FTX applied for a license in different jurisdictions. 

The team behind Binance’s official non-custodial cryptocurrency wallet app, Trust Wallet, has recently announced support for staking Cardano ($ADA) on the network, allowing users to earn with their holdings while helping secure the network.

According to O’Leary, he spoke with the FTX founder <a href="https://coingape.com/tag/sam-bankman-fried/">Sam Bankman-Fried</a> after the business declared bankruptcy. He quoted Bankman-Fried as saying that a large portion of the missing money was used to buy back FTX shares from Binance founder Changpeng “CZ” Zhou.

Binance CEO Changpeng "CZ" Zhao has traveled to the U.S. but hasn't publicized it because the firm cannot market to U.S. customers, the company said.&nbsp; Binance's Chief Strategy Officer and company spokesperson Patrick Hillmann <a href="https://twitter.com/prhillmann/status/1603082952635691009">said</a> that Zhao has been in the United States, after Reuters reported <a href="https://www.theblock.co/post/193988/justice-department-weighs-charging-binance">earlier this week</a> that the U.S. Department of Justice is continuing to weigh charging Binance for possible money laundering and criminal sanctions violations.