Binance has announced the suspension of deposits and withdrawals from its Binance Smart Chain (BSC) network.
The exchange attributed the suspension to technical issues which will take some hours to fix.
Investors King understands that this is the second time Binance has suffered a technical glitch within one week. On March 24, the exchange suspended all spot trading after the matching engine encountered a bug on the trailing stop order. In December 2022, a similar scenario also happened which took the exchange some hours to fix.
According to the world’s largest crypto exchange, suspension of both deposits and withdrawals are only temporary and often happens when the wallet is under maintenance.
Meanwhile, the United States has accused Binance of hiding substantial links to China for several years, contradicting executives’ claims that the crypto exchange left the country after a clampdown on the industry in late 2017.
According to U.S. regulators, Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao and others holding senior positions repeatedly instructed Binance employees to hide the company’s Chinese presence.
This included an office in use until at least the end of 2019, and one Chinese bank that was used to pay some employee salaries.
“We no longer publish our office addresses . . . people in China can directly say that our office is not in China,” Zhao was reported to have said in a company messaging group in November 2017.
Lately, Binance has been on the radar of U.S. regulatory agencies. Recall that on Monday, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) sued Binance for running an alleged “illegal exchange” and a “sham” compliance program.
“For years, Binance knew they were violating CFTC rules, working actively to both keep the money flowing and avoid compliance. This should be a warning to anyone in the digital asset world that the CFTC will not tolerate willful avoidance of U.S. law,” the agency’s chair, Rostin Behnam said.
