Binance CEO Changpeng “CZ” Zhao&nbsp;again denied that Sam Bankman-Fried was ever <a href="https://decrypt.co/114974/cz-says-sam-bankman-fried-was-badmouthing-binance-in-dc-but-they-werent-in-a-battle" target="_blank">a rival</a>, previously calling SBF a “<a href="https://decrypt.co/114923/only-a-psychopath-can-write-that-tweet-binance-ceo-cz-sbf" target="_blank">psychopath</a>” for even suggesting such a dynamic existed between the two crypto executives.

Binance is reportedly weighing a potential acquisition of Tokocrypto to expand its presence in the Indonesian market.

Tea, an open source unified package manager for software developers, today announced it has added another $8.9 million in seed funding to its coffer as it builds on recent momentum that has seen some 16,000 developers authenticate their software packages with Tea.

Over the last three weeks, Binance joined forces with law enforcement agencies in Singapore, Malaysia, and Thailand to deliver practical cryptocurrency training and workshops for investigators and prosecutors.

Wemade Co. Ltd. announced on Sunday that Binance Institutional Services will take custody of its native cryptocurrency, WEMIX, amid the South Korean blockchain game maker’s ongoing legal dispute against local cryptocurrency exchanges. Last week, Wemade filed injunctions against the exchanges to invalidate the decision to delist WEMIX. The Seoul Central District Court is expected to finalize its decision on the injunction on Dec. 7, a day before the planned delisting. (forkast)

The BinaryX BNX token has fallen by over 50% in the last 24 hours following rumors of its developers selling treasury tokens.

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Weeks after the collapse of Sam Bankman-Fried’s crypto exchange FTX, Binance has appointed accounting firm Mazars to verify its proof of reserves (PoR). Binance chose Mazars—the accounting firm that worked for former U.S. President Donald Trump—as its official auditor to carry out a ‘third party financial verification.’

Binance has intercepted some of the cryptocurrencies stolen from Ankr Protocol in what appears to be a multi-million dollar hack.

Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao revealed on Dec. 2 that the exchange froze around $3 million of the funds from Ankr’s hack.