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Regulation

Binance France says accounts close on 31 December. That entity is not Binance.com.

An email to Binance France customers, reported on 6 November, says those accounts close from 31 December 2026. From 29 November an account that still holds assets pays a fee. Deposits are already blocked. Withdrawals still work.EasyCryptoGuides · 6 Nov 2026, 17:00 UTC · 3 min read

Security

Binance puts the hot-wallet loss near $6.3 billion. Covering it is a company promise.

Binance reopened HYPE and APT withdrawals on 8 November, and Alpha withdrawals on four networks on 9 November. INJ, PLASMA, NEAR, and LTC were not in that post. The 98% figure did not move.EasyCryptoGuides · 30 Oct 2026, 02:00 UTC · 19 min read

Companies

CZ’s four-month sentence is about a person, not Binance the chain

The founder of Binance was sentenced in Seattle after a Bank Secrecy Act plea. A person went to prison. A token did not get a patch.EasyCryptoGuides · 30 Apr 2024, 20:00 UTC · 1 min read

Companies

Binance pleaded guilty. BNB’s chain did not.

DOJ, FinCEN and OFAC took admissions and a multi-billion-dollar bill. Zhao pleaded to a Bank Secrecy Act failure. The token’s rules of consensus were not in the plea.EasyCryptoGuides · 21 Nov 2023, 21:00 UTC · 2 min read

Crypto Basics

What is BNB?

BNB started in 2017 as a token Binance sold for fee discounts. It is the gas on BNB Smart Chain, an EVM chain with a small validator set. A bnb1 address is a retired chain.EasyCryptoGuides · 28 Apr 2020 · 4 min read

Security

Binance’s 7,000 BTC theft is why SAFU existed

Phishing and malware against users, then one withdrawal that passed existing checks. Roughly $41 million at the day’s print. Bitcoin confirmed a signature. It did not fail.EasyCryptoGuides · 7 May 2019, 20:00 UTC · 1 min read