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Legendary ‘The Big Short’ Investor Michael Burry Believes Binance Crypto Exchange Audit Is Meaningless – Here's Why
19.12.2022
Audits of Binance and other crypto exchanges are “essentially meaningless” since auditors don’t know how to deal with crypto, according to Michael Burry, the legendary investor who inspired the movie ‘The Big Short’.
According to Burry, this is the same problem as he was facing himself in 2005...
CryptoQuant's Audit of Binance Reveals No 'FTX-Like' Behavior in Proof-of-Reserves
16.12.2022
An on-chain audit of Binance by the blockchain analytics firm CryptoQuant has concluded that Binance’s reserves of bitcoin (BTC) and other major coins “are not showing ‘FTX-like’ behavior at this point.”
In analyzing the numbers, CryptoQuant said it compared Binance’s BTC liabilities, as stated...
Total crypto market cap takes another hit, but traders remain neutral
16.12.2022
The total crypto market cap is at risk of falling below $825 billion, but data shows traders actively adding to their longs and shorts
Accounting Firm Mazars Stops Proof-of-Reserve Audits for Crypto Firms, Binance Audit Removed From the Web
16.12.2022
The accounting firm Mazars Group has stopped doing proof-of-reserves (POR) audits for cryptocurrency exchanges and the recently published Binance POR has been removed from the web. Mazars was conducting a number of POR audits for crypto exchanges like Binance, Crypto.com, and Kucoin following...
Bitcoin, Ether Slip as Audit Firm Mazars Pauses Work for Crypto Clients, S&P Futures Drop
16.12.2022
Bitcoin outperformed ether and BNB as Mazar's decision to suspend crypto audit work and Binance fears weighed over the crypto market
Investors Not Satisfied with Binance’s Proof-of-Reserves Audit – Next Exchange to Collapse?
12.12.2022
Binance’s proof-of-reserves audit has already raised red flags, with some experts claiming it is far from enough to satisfy worried users.
The so-called proof-of-reserves report was released on December 7 in the form of a 5-page PDF document prepared by the global accounting firm Mazar’s South...
Binance and Crypto.com Publish Proof-of-Reserve Audits Conducted by Global Auditor Mazars Group
10.12.2022
This week two cryptocurrency exchanges provided proof-of-reserves in order to highlight that the trading platforms are backing customer assets 1:1. Binance published its report on Dec. 7, 2022, and detailed the global auditor Mazars Group conducted the audit. On Dec. 9, 2022, the exchange...
Binance’s Bitcoin Reserves Collateralization Ratio Sits at 101% According to Mazars Audit – This is What You Need to Know
8.12.2022
A report by auditing firm Mazars has revealed that Binance's bitcoin reserves have a 101% collateralization ratio, suggesting that the exchange has more than all of the BTC it needs to cover customer deposits.
In a recent report, Mazars claimed the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange has...
Binance's Bitcoin Reserves Are Overcollateralized, Auditor Says
7.12.2022
Mazars performed a proof-of-reserves and proof-of-liabities audit on the centralized exchange
Crypto Audit Platform Sherlock Expects $4M Loss From Troubled Loans on Maple Finance
7.12.2022
Sherlock deposited $5 million USDC of its staking pool into the beleaguered credit pool on Maple, which suffered a $31 million hit from Orthogonal Trading’s loan defaults
Today in Crypto: HashKey and SEBA Bank Join Hands, KuCoin Hires Mazars for Proof of Reserves, Bitget Launches PoR Page & User Self-audit Tool
5.12.2022
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Read More: Today in Crypto: HashKey and SEBA Bank Join Hands, KuCoin Hires Mazars for Proof of Reserves, Bitget Launches PoR Page...
Audit firm Mazars to verify KuCoin's Proof-of-Reserves
5.12.2022
Mazars, the former accounting firm for Donald Trump's companies, was hired recently to audit Binance's PoR
This AI chatbot is either an exploiter's dream or their nightmare
2.12.2022
The crypto community has come across an AI-powered chatbot that can be used to audit smart contracts and expose vulnerabilities
Binance hires audit firm that served Donald Trump to verify crypto reserves
1.12.2022
Mazars’ U.S. division was the longtime accounting firm for former United States President Donald Trump’s company
Binance CEO explains 127K BTC transfer, points at proof-of-reserve audit
28.11.2022
A few weeks ago, Binance CEO declared that exchanges moving large amounts of crypto to prove their wallet address is not good news
This Exchange Enables Users to Self-Audit the Firm’s Crypto Reserves – This is How it Works
24.11.2022
Major crypto exchange OKX said it launched a self-audit feature, which currently supports three cryptoassets.
"You can now verify your assets are backed 1:1 on OKX," said the announcement. The new feature supports bitcoin (BTC), ethereum (ETH), and the USDT stablecoin, with more assets to come...
OKX releases Proof of Reserves page, along with instructions on how to self-audit its reserves
23.11.2022
The page includes a “view OKX reserves” option that provides reserve ratios for BTC, ETH, and USDT at a glance
Kraken’s Jesse Powell Takes Aim at Newly Launched Proof-of-Reserve Lists, POR Audit ‘Requires Cryptographic Proof’
23.11.2022
On Tuesday, amid the many conversations concerning crypto exchange proof-of-reserves, Kraken executive Jesse Powell shared a screenshot of coinmarketcap.com’s newly launched proof-of-reserves (POR) dashboard. Powell said he planned to be “more assertive with calling out problems,” and he stressed...
Terra Luna Audit Results: 80,000 Bitcoin Worth $2.8 Billion Used to Defend Peg – Here’s What You Need to Know
17.11.2022
Terra (LUNA) founder Do Kwon and the Luna Foundation Guard (LFG) spent as much as 80,000 bitcoin, worth a whopping $2.8bn, to defend the algorithmic stablecoin UST’s dollar peg, a new audit report has revealed.
The newly revealed numbers were shared by Do Kwon himself in a Twitter thread...
Terra’s $2.8B Defense System — Luna Foundation Guard Audit Says Group Spent More Than 80,000 Bitcoin Defending UST Peg
16.11.2022
Months after the collapse of Terra’s U.S. dollar-pegged token UST, the organization created to protect the once-stable coin, the Luna Foundation Guard (LFG), published an audit report audited by the New York-based consultancy company JS Held. According to the report, LFG claims to have spent...