Key Points:
Binance has been in the news lately due to its legal troubles. The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has filed a lawsuit against the exchange for violating the Commodity Exchange Act and CFTC regulations.
As a result of this news, Binance’s BNB token saw a sharp drop in value. Additionally, most crypto prices were trending down on Monday, with Ethereum down 2.48% over the last 24 hours and Solana and Litecoin also seeing significant drops. Bitcoin has been on a two-week tear spurred by a banking crisis in the U.S., but it fell sharply after the CFTC’s lawsuit became public, at one point hitting $26,550 before rebounding to $27,250.
Companies in the crypto space saw shares fall throughout the morning, with Coinbase down around 9.6% and MicroStrategy falling 8.3%. Most publicly traded miners were also down, including CleanSpark, Riot, and Hut 8.
Binance has seen an outflow of $185 million worth of tokens in the last hour and $218 million worth of tokens in the last four hours. While significant, this amount is not catastrophic. Binance’s total asset on chain is $75.6 billion.
Besides, in its indictment against Binance, the CFTC stated that digital assets, including Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Litecoin, are commodities, showing the difference of the US SEC’s view that only Bitcoin is not a security. However, Coinbase’s CIO pointed out that security can apparently also be a commodity.
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