Crypto shares tumble as Binance SEC lawsuit ripples through industry
Binance, another blow to the industry. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission sued Binance and its CEO Changpeng Zhao for secretly controlling Binance.US as part of a «web of deception» to evade U.S. laws, among other charges. Reuters earlier reported that Binance controlled its US affiliate's bank accounts, despite claiming it was independent. The SEC also said Binance artificially inflated trading volumes on the platform, diverted customer funds and failed to restrict U.S. customers from its platform and misled investors about market surveillance controls. Bitcoin, the world's biggest cryptocurrency was down 5.45% after falling to its lowest level since mid-March following the news. Binance's cryptocurrency fell 9.72%.
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View Details »The charges filed in a federal court in Washington, D.C., are the latest in a string of enforcement actions brought by the agency in a bid to curtail the cryptocurrency industry, which SEC Chair Gary Gensler has described as «the wild West.» The SEC crackdown has prompted some crypto companies to increase compliance, spike products, and expand overseas, moves that some marketwatchers said would likely be accelerated by this latest action against the world's largest crypto exchange. «This is yet another targeted attack that is devastating in the crypto ecosystem. Pretty soon, the SEC won't have anyone left to sue,» said John Reed Stark, a former chief of the SEC's Office of
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