Cryptocurrency commentator Yazan claimed on social media X (formerly Twitter) that Binance, OKX, Kucoin, and Bybit have received 16 trillion PEPE coins from the multi-signature wallet of PEPE at address 0xa34B091932D9c9ffcFF254c9Aa1B4210C81F2EA0. Among them, 6.7 trillion PEPE coins were transferred to Binance, 8.5 trillion PEPE coins to OKX, 445 billion PEPE coins to ByBit, and 400 billion PEPE coins to Kucoin. Yazan claimed that these PEPE coins were originally intended to provide funds for listing on exchanges, rather than being dumped on the free market.

Binance is reducing its card partnerships, as Mastercard terminates its collaboration and the crypto exchange temporarily halts new applications for its Visa-supported European card. The card pilot programs with Mastercard in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, and Bahrain will end on September 22, affecting only a small portion of users. Binance's co-branded card with Visa has also paused new applications for the EEA since July, but existing cardholders can continue to use and reorder their cards. <br>

Following the Wall Street Journal's report that Binance assisted Russian people in transferring funds overseas, the cryptocurrency giant has stopped offering options for customers to make peer-to-peer payments through sanctioned Russian banks. Binance's peer-to-peer service website no longer lists the five sanctioned Russian banks as a method for users to transfer rubles between each other. A Binance spokesperson said that when someone points out a problem, they will solve and remedy it as soon as possible. <br>

Binance announced that it will support the network upgrade and hard fork of Decred (DCR) and MultiversX (EGLD). The specific arrangements are as follows: Binance is expected to suspend DCR token deposit and withdrawal services at 22:00 on August 29, 2023, Beijing time, to support the network upgrade and hard fork of Decred (DCR) at Decred block height 794,368. Binance is expected to suspend EGLD token deposit and withdrawal services at 22:45 on August 30, 2023, Beijing time, to support the network upgrade of MultiversX (EGLD) at MultiversX epoch 1,126 (expected to be at 23:45 on August 30, 2023, Beijing time).

Data analyst Yu Jin reported that a small whale transferred assets worth $2.51 million, including 934,000 ARB, 172,000 UNI, and 514,000 LDO, to Binance one hour ago. If sold, it could result in a loss of $460,000.

August 25th, Spot On Chain monitoring reported that a certain whale address "0x53e" (possibly a SAND investor) transferred 3.6 million SAND to Binance 16 hours ago, worth about 1.16 million US dollars. It is understood that this whale has already transferred 34 million SAND to the trading platform, accounting for 90% of its holdings, and still holds 3.6 million SAND.

According to an official announcement, Binance's lending platform for current borrowings has added SEI and CYBER as available assets. Binance's VIP platform for borrowings has added SEI, CYBER, WAXP, LTO, and STPT as available assets.

August 25th, according to an official announcement, Binance will support the network upgrade and hard fork of Decred (DCR) and MultiversX (EGLD), with the following specific arrangements: Binance is expected to temporarily suspend DCR token deposit and withdrawal services at 22:00 on August 29th, 2023 to support the network upgrade and hard fork of Decred (DCR) at Decred block height 794,368.

Lookonchain monitoring shows that CMS Holdings withdrew 354,579 DYDX tokens from Binance 9 hours ago. Since July 21st, CMS Holdings has withdrawn a total of 1.64 million DYDX tokens from Bitget and Binance.

The United States Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) lost $55,000 in seized Tether earlier this year due to a scammer's "address poisoning" tactic. The DEA had seized over $500,000 worth of USDT from two Binance accounts suspected of laundering drug money.