SoftBank Group’s digital payment provider PayPay has taken a 40% stake in Binance’s Japan unit, seeking to capitalize on the country’s booming crypto market. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/10/09/companies/softbank-paypay-invests-in-binance/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #softbank #paypay #binance #investments #cryptocurrencies
Alex Akselrod
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i'm sure it's just a coincidence that the bitcoin wallet that #OFAC just sanctioned because it was being used by Russian and North Korean weapons programs just so happened to be sending all its bitcoins to crypto exchanges belonging to Trump's Chinese business partners: Justin Sun's #HTX and Changpeng Zhao's #Binance.
* presser: https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/sb0230
* sanctioned entities: https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/sb0230
* wallet: https://intel.arkm.com/explorer/address/1HmqvgSXUVES1jn4TQPzk9dxo1NE8wim2T
#sanctions #russia #putin #ukraine#Ukrainewar#DPRK#NorthKorea#kimJongUn #weapons #armstrafficking #bitcoin #crypto #uspol#corruption #cryptocurrency #bitcoin #trump#WLFI#JustinSun #sanctions #sanctionsEvasion
screenshot of outflows from the sanctioned bitcoin wallet
![Specially Designated Nationals List Update
The following individuals have been added to OFAC's SDN List:
ANDREYEV, Vitaliy Sergeyevich (Cyrillic: АНДРЕЕВ, Виталий Сергеевич), Russia; DOB 29 Sep 1980; POB Vladivostok, Russia; nationality Russia; citizen Russia; Gender Male; Digital Currency Address - XBT 1HmqvgSXUVES1jn4TQPzk9dxo1NE8wim2T; Secondary sanctions risk: North Korea Sanctions Regulations, sections 510.201 and 510.210; Transactions Prohibited For Persons Owned or Controlled By U.S. Financial Institutions: North Korea Sanctions Regulations section 510.214; Tax ID No. 253908966176 (Russia) (individual) [DPRK2] (Linked To: CHINYONG INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY COOPERATION COMPANY).](https://media.universeodon.com/media_attachments/files/115/119/135/933/234/552/original/a025565674c4bcef.png)
Specially Designated Nationals List Update
The following individuals have been added to OFAC's SDN List:
ANDREYEV, Vitaliy Sergeyevich (Cyrillic: АНДРЕЕВ, Виталий Сергеевич), Russia; DOB 29 Sep 1980; POB Vladivostok, Russia; nationality Russia; citizen Russia; Gender Male; Digital Currency Address - XBT 1HmqvgSXUVES1jn4TQPzk9dxo1NE8wim2T; Secondary sanctions risk: North Korea Sanctions Regulations, sections 510.201 and 510.210; Transactions Prohibited For Persons Owned or Controlled By U.S. Financial Institutions: North Korea Sanctions Regulations section 510.214; Tax ID No. 253908966176 (Russia) (individual) [DPRK2] (Linked To: CHINYONG INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY COOPERATION COMPANY).
screenshot of treasury dept presser
i'm sure it's just a coincidence that the bitcoin wallet that #OFAC just sanctioned because it was being used by Russian and North Korean weapons programs just so happened to be sending all its bitcoins to crypto exchanges belonging to Trump's Chinese business partners: Justin Sun's #HTX and Changpeng Zhao's #Binance.
* presser: https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/sb0230
* sanctioned entities: https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/sb0230
* wallet: https://intel.arkm.com/explorer/address/1HmqvgSXUVES1jn4TQPzk9dxo1NE8wim2T
#sanctions #russia #putin #ukraine#Ukrainewar#DPRK#NorthKorea#kimJongUn #weapons #armstrafficking #bitcoin #crypto #uspol#corruption #cryptocurrency #bitcoin #trump#WLFI#JustinSun #sanctions #sanctionsEvasion
screenshot of outflows from the sanctioned bitcoin wallet
Specially Designated Nationals List Update
The following individuals have been added to OFAC's SDN List:
ANDREYEV, Vitaliy Sergeyevich (Cyrillic: АНДРЕЕВ, Виталий Сергеевич), Russia; DOB 29 Sep 1980; POB Vladivostok, Russia; nationality Russia; citizen Russia; Gender Male; Digital Currency Address - XBT 1HmqvgSXUVES1jn4TQPzk9dxo1NE8wim2T; Secondary sanctions risk: North Korea Sanctions Regulations, sections 510.201 and 510.210; Transactions Prohibited For Persons Owned or Controlled By U.S. Financial Institutions: North Korea Sanctions Regulations section 510.214; Tax ID No. 253908966176 (Russia) (individual) [DPRK2] (Linked To: CHINYONG INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY COOPERATION COMPANY).
screenshot of treasury dept presser
@JamesBaker
#Persona (#WithPersona) has also been used by #Kraken: https://mastodon.acm.org/@nobody/114507189542698748
#Onfido, used by #Revolut and #Binance, similarly hosts EEA customers' data on MS servers: https://www.entrust.com/legal-compliance/data-privacy/sub-processors. They claim the "data ... transferred outside of the EEA benefits from an adequate level of protection by requiring sub-processors to enter into the EC approved Standard Contractual Clauses". Ironic, considering Microsoft admits they can't comply
Alex Akselrod
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NYT article about Changpeng Zhao’s quest for a presidential pardon. Worth remembering that Trump’s World Liberty Financial has already launched its #stablecoin#USD1 mostly on the Binance blockchain (BNB) and USD1’s usage in decentralized finance is 99% happening on Binance fake decentralized exchanges (PancakeSwap).
* NYT: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/09/us/politics/changpeng-zhao-pardon-trump.html
* Chart of USD1 DEX usage: https://x.com/Cryptadamist/status/1953550895268212945
#CZ#Binance#BNB#BNBChain#WLFI #worldlibertyfinancial #trump #uspol #uspolitics #pardon#corruption #pardons #stablecoins #crypto #cryptocurrency
NYT article about Changpeng Zhao’s quest for a presidential pardon. Worth remembering that Trump’s World Liberty Financial has already launched its #stablecoin#USD1 mostly on the Binance blockchain (BNB) and USD1’s usage in decentralized finance is 99% happening on Binance fake decentralized exchanges (PancakeSwap).
* NYT: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/09/us/politics/changpeng-zhao-pardon-trump.html
* Chart of USD1 DEX usage: https://x.com/Cryptadamist/status/1953550895268212945
#CZ#Binance#BNB#BNBChain#WLFI #worldlibertyfinancial #trump #uspol #uspolitics #pardon#corruption #pardons #stablecoins #crypto #cryptocurrency
Binance plans to keep hundreds of remote workers in Singapore despite a crackdown on unlicensed cryptocurrency outfits in the city-state. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/07/02/tech/binance-staff-singapore-crackdown/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #tech #binance#richardteng #singapore #cryptocurrencies
Alex Akselrod
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the trump and witkoff families' #stablecoin#USD1 has existed for like 4 weeks and it's already seeing more reported trading volume than the coinbase aligned Circle's stablecoin #USDC, which i'm sure is because of entirely legitimate financial activity and not because chinese crypto exchanges like #Binance and #OKX are wash trading and/or reporting fake volumes
#corruption #trump #stablecoins#geniusAct #uspol #uspolitics #crypto #cryptocurrency#WLFI #worldlibertyfinancial #stevewitkoff#CRCL#Circle
the trump and witkoff families' #stablecoin#USD1 has existed for like 4 weeks and it's already seeing more reported trading volume than the coinbase aligned Circle's stablecoin #USDC, which i'm sure is because of entirely legitimate financial activity and not because chinese crypto exchanges like #Binance and #OKX are wash trading and/or reporting fake volumes
#corruption #trump #stablecoins#geniusAct #uspol #uspolitics #crypto #cryptocurrency#WLFI #worldlibertyfinancial #stevewitkoff#CRCL#Circle