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View More NewsBinance, the largest crypto exchange by volume traded, released guidelines placing tighter obligations on token issuers and liquidity providers.The new rules require projects to disclose their market maker’s identity, legal entity and contract terms. They also ban profit-sharing and guaranteed-return arrangements, which the exchange said can create incentives that conflict with fair trading. Token lending agreements must clearly say how borrowed tokens can be used.The rules are “intended to help projects conduct stronger due diligence on their market-maker partners and remind users to be mindful of market conditions,” a Binance spokesperson said in an email. The company is looking to…
Bitcoin (BTC) is testing the $71,500 pivot, a key level across multiple timeframes and analysts noted that price action is tilted toward a possible rally to $80,000.As traders remain split between futures-driven speculation and weak spot demand, Bitcoin has tested the $71,500 inflection point four times in the past seven days. A positive is that the price has held above the 50-period exponential moving average (EMA) on the four-hour chart, but the 50-day EMA on the daily chart continues to act as a level of resistance.Will $80,000 be Bitcoin’s next stop?Crypto trader Skew described the position as a “compression zone,”…
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“Tonight,” said Donald Trump to the people of Iran on 28 February, “bombs will be dropping everywhere. … When we are finished, take over your government.” These words seemed to evoke a single apocalyptic night, after which the Iranian people would emerge from their shelters, blinking in the light of a new day, to discover that the IRGC, the Artesh, the Basij, and the hated morality police were all buried under the rubble, America’s planes had departed, and Iran was free at last.Four weeks was the President’s actual timeline, but that’s looking doubtful now. Trump was warned that the Iranian…
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Bitmine Immersion Technologies (BMNR), the largest ether-focused treasury firm, bought 60,999 ether (ETH) last week as it continues to build up its holdings of…
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