The feud between the CEOs of crypto exchanges FTX and Binance — Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) and Changpeng “CZ” Zhao — not solely crashed cryptocurrency costs but additionally reminded regulators to step in and keep away from comparable fallouts sooner or later.
Ever since CZ publicly introduced Binance’s intent to liquidate its FTX Token (FTT) holdings, traders anticipating a worth dump started promoting off their FTT holdings as a method to attenuate their losses. What adopted was a steep 86% drop in FTT’s market worth, down from the $22 vary to $3 in a matter of hours.
Nevertheless, the eventful day concluded with CZ asserting Binance’s intent to amass FTX, and SBF sufficed the transfer citing shopper safety. Reacting to this improvement, United States Senator Cynthia Lummis — recognized locally for her robust perception in crypto — highlighted the necessity for clearer crypto laws:
“The latest occasions which have transpired between FTX and Binance are the clearest instance but of why we’d like clear guidelines of the highway for digital asset exchanges in the US.”
She identified the significance of the Lummis-Gillibrand Accountable Monetary Innovation Act, a invoice sponsored by Sen. Lummis that seeks to carry digital belongings inside the regulatory perimeter.
Given the evident affect of crypto entrepreneurs in swaying the cryptocurrency costs with only a few tweets, Lummis highlighted:
“Market manipulation, lending exercise, and whether or not buyer funds and belongings had been appropriately safeguarded are only a few of the various points my colleagues and I would like to think about within the coming days.”
Whereas SBF selected to stay silent during the last 16 hours on the time of writing, CZ revealed topping Binance’s SAFE insurance coverage fund with cryptocurrencies price $1 billion to regulate to latest worth fluctuations.
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On account of the FTX-Binance fiasco, SBF’s private wealth plummet 94% and ripping off his billionaire standing in a single day.
Earlier than Binance’s takeover announcement, Bankman-Fried’s 53% stake in FTX was price round $6.2 billion.
