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This week's Crypto Biz explores the latest on Binance's global on-ramps and off-ramps, Coinbase-Circle re -alignment , Shopify's take on USDC and China's blockchain data exchange. Global regulatory landscapes are once again proving to be a turning point for crypto companies, demanding constant adaptation to navigate shallow regulatory waters across the world, particularly in the United States. In the latest developments, Coinbase and Circle decided to dissolve the Centre Consortium in a strategic realignment driven by demand for regulatory clarity on stablecoins, possibly as an anticipation of upcoming legislation coming from the U.S. Congress. A legal alternative to remaining operational was also sought by Binance.US this week. The exchange announced a partnership with MoonPay featuring the dollar-pegged stablecoin Tether (USDT) as its new “base asset” for all transactions, allowing a path for users to transact in U.S. dollars while possibly sidestepping potential re...

More than $536,000 was drained from the Synapse Bridge on April 4, according to Ethereum blockchain data. Sentiment, an undercollateralized lending protocol , appears to have been exploited on April 4 for over $500,000 in crypto. Ethereum Blockchain data shows a transaction that transferred 536,738.410031 USD Coin (USDC) from the Synapse Bridge, and this links up with a series of Arbitrum transactions draining coins from the Sentiment protocol .  The wallet performing the attack has been labeled "Sentimentxyz Exploiter" by Arbiscan, and the Sentiment team has announced on Twitter that they are aware of a "potential issue" with the protocol. The Sentiment team has recently been made aware of a potential issue concerning the Sentiment protocol. We are actively looking into the situation and will provide additional information momentarily. — Sentiment (@sentimentxyz) April 4, 2023 Twitter user Officer’s Notes has suggested that this may be a reentrancy attack. The...

According to insiders, 50% of uninsured deposits will be paid out by next week. According to a post on Mar. 11 by Bob Elliot, chief investment officer of unlimited funds, relief efforts may already be underway less than 72 hours after the collapse of prominent American tech bank Silicon Valley Bank (SVB). Elliot claimed, among many items, that "big banks actively working on buying svb business," the U.S. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) is planning to cover 95% of uninsured depositors to the acquirer, and that "50pct of uninsured paid out next wk." Cointelegraph reported earlier today that Circle, the issuer of the USD Coin (USDC) stablecoin, had over $3.3 billion in reserves stuck in the troubled bank out of a total of over $40 billion. In addition, SVB reportedly custodied an estimated $5 billion in funds for prominent Blockchain venture capital firms such as a16z, Pantera Capital, and Paradigm. Earlier today, USDC depegged from its one-to-one U.S. d...