According to DL News citing data from OpenSecrets, a platform that tracks political donations, Binance spent over $1 million on lobbying in the first six months of 2023, which is almost equivalent to its spending for the entire year of 2022. During the same period, Coinbase spent $1.4 million, and paid $3.4 million to lobbyists in 2022.

According to data from OpenSecrets, an organization that tracks political donations, Coinbase and Binance spent a total of $2.4 million on lobbying in the first half of 2023. Binance spent over $1 million to influence lawmakers on Capitol Hill, Coinbase spent $1.4 million during the same period. Other companies with significant lobbying expenditures include Ripple, Crypto.com, and the Blockchain Association.

Golden Finance reported that Binance announced that in order to improve the trading experience of spot API users, Binance Spot API will optimize the request weight limit rules for each IP address. Starting from 00:00 (UTC) on August 25, 2023, the request weight limit for each IP address will be increased to 6,000 times per minute.

On August 17th, according to an official announcement, Binance will automatically liquidate LTCBUSD and DOGEBUSD U perpetual contracts at 17:00 on August 24th Beijing time, and delist the LTCBUSD and DOGEBUSD U perpetual contract trading pairs after the liquidation is completed. In addition, the leverage and margin ladder for LTCBUSD and DOGEBUSD U perpetual contracts will be updated at 20:30 on August 17th.

Binance officially announced a partnership with Ferencváros, the most award-winning football club in Hungary. Ferencváros fans can immerse themselves in the world of Web3 and support the club through free NFT drops and educational activities.

According to blockchain analyst Yu Jin's monitoring, a whale purchased 10.684 billion PEPE with 711 ETH (approximately $1.28 million). The address transferred the 711 ETH to Binance 2 hours ago and withdrew the 10.684 billion PEPE from Binance 65 minutes later, resulting in an average purchase price of $0.0000012 per token.

Binance has opened the asset refund for the "Rug Pull project XIRTAM" damaged users. Eligible users can now enter the refund contract to check their qualifications and apply for the damaged funds. On May 3rd, Binance assisted the community in temporarily freezing the 1909 ETH funds deposited in the Rug Pull project XIRTAM, and victims need to contact Binance customer service and submit the relevant transaction hash of the transaction loss. 

According to an official announcement, Binance added ATA and SEI as borrowable assets for its margin trading feature in its secure wallet, while SEI assets were added for isolated margin trading. New margin trading pairs for cross margin: ATA/USDT, SEI/USDT; new margin trading pairs for isolated margin: SEI/USDT.

A publicly released document from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) shows that law enforcement agencies seized digital assets worth about $1.7 million from March to May. The confiscated encrypted assets include Bitcoin, Ethereum, Tether (USDT), Monero, and DAI.

According to an official announcement, Binance will remove and stop trading the following spot trading pairs at 11:00 on August 18, 2023 (UTC+8): CKB/BUSD, FARM/BUSD, ORN/BUSD, REN/BUSD, SKL/BUSD, UFT/BUSD, ZEN/BUSD, and ZRX/BUSD. Note: - Users can still trade the above-mentioned coins in other trading pairs available on the Binance platform. - Binance will terminate the trading bot service for the above spot trading pairs, where applicable, at 11:00 on August 18, 2023 (UTC+8). It is strongly recommended that users update and/or cancel their trading bots before the above-mentioned trading bot service is stopped to avoid any potential losses.