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THE HASH: Binance-WazirX Tensions Escalate; CZ Publishes 'Time Management' Rules

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🗓️ 3 February 2023

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

The most valuable crypto stories for Friday, Feb. 3, 2023. 

"The Hash" team discusses today's top stories, including Binance inviting Zanmai Labs, the entity operating the Indian crypto exchange WazirX, to work out arrangements to withdraw any remaining assets held in Binance wallets, according to a blog post on Friday. Separately, Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao, aka 'CZ,' discusses his time management guidelines in a recent blog post. Plus, Russia's largest bank Sberbank will release a decentralized finance (DeFi) platform by May this year, according to the Russian news agency Interfax.


See also: ​​

Binance-WazirX Dispute Rages as the Indian Crypto Exchange Is Told to Move Funds Out of Binance

Russia's Sberbank Will Introduce DeFi Platform by May: Report

Binance Re-Enters South Korea by Buying Majority Stake in Crypto Exchange GOPAX

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0:00.0

This is the hash podcast.

0:10.7

Stay informed with the latest on Bitcoin, ETH, the Metaverse, Web3, and more,

0:15.6

with stories that matter to the crypto world, all on the hash for your ears.

0:23.2

You're listening to the Coin Desk podcast network. Hey there. Welcome to CoinDest TV. You're watching The Hash, where we hash out

0:31.0

the day's news in the world of crypto culture and get to some of the big ideas that animate

0:35.9

all the crazy things that are always

0:37.7

happening in this industry. We just love you're here. Thanks for being here. I'm Zach Seward.

0:42.4

That's Adam Levine. We've got Jen Sanassi and Will Foxley. We're going to toss it straight to

0:47.0

Jen. I guess for an update on this finance Wazer X spat over in India. What's going on?

0:58.5

Well, the saga continues, Zach. So according to a blog post published by Binance, WazerX can no longer use Binance's wallet services. The post says that

1:05.4

the Indian exchange has made false and misleading statements about Binance's control over WazerX user assets. And because of this,

1:13.6

the company has until today to remove funds from accounts that they used for WazerX operations.

1:19.4

WazerX tweeted, I think two or three hours ago, that they've initiated the process of

1:24.1

transferring assets to multi-sig wallets, which they expect to be fully completed

1:28.5

within the next few hours. Will, I'm going to toss this off to you. We've been chatting about

1:33.7

this saga on the show for the last couple of weeks. Finally, it looks like it's come to a head.

1:39.5

What did you make of this blog post this morning? Yeah, I'm kind of waiting for this, right?

1:43.1

We've been following the story on the hash for quite a while. It's important, right? Binance has a lot of different

1:47.4

exchanges built on top of it. That's something that we've kind of fall along with the story and

1:51.0

learned about along the way. And then Wazer X, it's part of this basket of crypto exchanges in

1:56.4

India that has been impacted not only by downturn in crypto markets, but also by the Indian

2:00.8

government moving against crypto exchanges pretty heavily.

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