Binance has successfully passed the SOC 2 Type II compliance audit. The audit was completed by a third-party evaluation agency A-LIGN, which mainly evaluated the protection and data security of the Binance system. The evaluation agency verified the effectiveness of the control measures implemented by Binance in daily use.

BNB Chain announced on X platform that on December 17th, the daily transaction volume of opBNB network exceeded 23 million, reaching a new historical high, and the transaction volume of BSC (BNB Chain) exceeded 14 million on the same day. However, both networks also experienced some congestion. In addition, the real-time TPS on opBNB also reached 610. It is reported that opBNB can process up to 4,000-5,000 transactions per second. BNB Chain pointed out that the above data surge is mainly driven by the craze for NFTs.

Binance announced that there are only 7 days left until the end of the Binance 2023 Futures Tournament. Currently, there are 85,000 eligible participants and over 5,700 teams participating, which is a historical high for the number of teams participating in the Binance Futures Tournament. As of now, the Binance 2023 Futures Tournament has unlocked a prize pool of 300,000 USDT.

Allins plans to first launch an AMM-based inscription Swap on BNB Chain, and plans to expand to other EVM-compatible chains and the Bitcoin ecosystem.

According to Whale Alert monitoring data, at around 10:01 Beijing time, 9,682 ETH (worth about $21,534,509) was transferred from an unknown wallet to Binance.

As monitored by blockchain analyst Yu Jin, about 20 minutes ago, two addresses withdrew 23.02 million STORJ from Binance and OKEx.

On December 15th, the BNB Chain core team launched the "BNB Bridge Attacker Account Remediation" proposal on the Venus Protocol, a BNB Chain-based lending protocol. The proposal aims to give BNB Chain discretion to seize the collateral of the BNB Bridge attacker and repay their debt, while avoiding any market liquidation of BNB.

According to CoinGape, court documents from the District Court of Columbia show that Binance US is seeking court approval to dismiss the SEC's lawsuit against Binance Holdings by collaborating with multiple parties. Binance US has also hired multiple lawyers to join the dismissal case and stated that the SEC has failed to reasonably charge any investment contract and securities law violations.

Binance has announced that they will be conducting standard wallet maintenance in the next few days. As a result, the community may notice some large transactions on the Binance wallet across multiple networks.

Binance announced that Binance DEX has launched a new asset, BONK. Users can now exchange BONK for BTC, USDT, or other tokens supported by Binance DEX.

Kelvin Lee, chairman of the Philippine Securities and Exchange Commission, clarified at a panel discussion on December 13 that the ban on Binance will take effect three months after the announcement is made. The Philippine regulatory agency issued a warning to Binance for operating without a license on November 28. In addition to Binance, Lee also said that OctaFX and MiTrade, two exchanges recently warned for unregistered operations, will also face a ban after three months.<br>The local securities association said that they have a "considerable" list of unregistered exchanges that will gradually come to light. However, after seeing the action taken against Binance, they are also taking a "wait-and-see" attitude towards whether these exchanges are registered.

Binance, Binance.US, and Changpeng Zhao have filed a reply to the SEC's lawsuit, arguing that the regulator did not meet the requirements of the "Howey Test." The filing states that the SEC did not show that the exchanges' U.S. customers had any contracts that would meet the definition of an "investment contract." Binance also pushed back against the SEC's adding the exchange's guilty plea with the DOJ and consent order with FinCEN, or Zhao's own DOJ plea, in the ongoing case. The filing argues that securities laws wouldn't apply the same way the Bank Secrecy Act or International Emergency Economic Powers Act did.

On December 13th, Binance submitted documents to the federal court in the District of Columbia, stating that the settlement agreement reached between Binance and the US DOJ and FinCEN is not substantively related to the SEC's charges against Binance, and that the SEC's supplemental briefing did not provide new and effective evidence in this case.

On December 12th, My Neighbor Alice, a blockchain game, has migrated from BNB Chain to Chromia network before launching on the Chromia mainnet. On the occasion of releasing the fourth season content package today, the developers have also launched a corresponding cross-chain bridge, allowing NFT owners to transfer their assets to the new chain to create new Chromia NFTs in the game. According to the press release, players participating in the game on the new chain do not need to pay gas fees or sign transactions.

BNB Chain has released the BNB Greenfield technology roadmap, aimed at improving performance, enhancing development experience, and expanding multi-chain functionality.<br>The roadmap is primarily based on three key principles: high performance, simplified development experience, and multi-chain platform, including:<br>Greenfield will also address challenges related to artificial intelligence (AI), including ownership, transparency, and innovation, by integrating it with Web3 on BNB Chain. In addition, Greenfield will enable smart contracts as resource owners between Q4 2023 and Q1 2024 to better control the permissions of BSC/opBNB.Increasing the upload and download speed of SP by 5 times, respectively from 2MB/s to 10MB/s and from 20MB/s to 100MB/s; being compatible with popular Web2 and Web3 standards to simplify development experience; introducing rich storage capabilities, including resource tagging, indexing, simplified data migration, and object atomic updates; providing powerful infrastructure through multi-chain platform for full-chain or decentralized applications (dApps), achieving cross-chain programmability with opBNB and EVM-compatible chains; Greenfield will also be positioned as the basic data availability (DA) layer of the opBNB and NB smart chain ecosystems.

A former internet enforcement official at the US SEC has warned that the newly released DOJ documents should signal the end of Binance. He noted that the US Securities and Exchange Commission has stepped up legal action against cryptocurrency exchanges.He added, "In my view, the collapse of the entire Binance defense trading is only a matter of time, which will lead to additional charges against Binance, additional charges against Zhao Changpeng, and new charges against anyone else (partners, customers, joint ventures, collaborators, etc.) who has any connection with the Binance criminal gang."

Binance will support the Filecoin (FIL) network upgrade and hard fork, with the following specific arrangements:

According to data provided by CCData, as of December, Binance's market share in the cryptocurrency spot trading market was only 30.1%, compared to 55% at the beginning of the year. From January to September, the exchange's monthly spot trading volume decreased by more than 70%, from $474 billion to $114 billion.

According to official sources, He Yi, co-founder of Binance, will hold a Chinese AMA on X platform at 8pm on the 12th with Binance's new CEO, Richard Teng, to answer questions from Chinese media and community users.

According to market data on December 11th, BNB briefly broke through $240 and is currently trading at $240.6, with a 1-hour increase of 1.78%.<br>Prior to this, Binance announced the 40th phase of new coin mining using BNB and FDUSD to mine Fusionist (ACE).