Binance has informed its Dutch customers that they have until August 17 to withdraw their holdings after the crypto exchange failed to receive a license from the central bank of the Netherlands.

An unidentified whale has withdrawn over 563,000 XRP from Binance, bringing their total withdrawals to over 2 million XRP and an unrealized profit of over $640,000. This comes as XRP has seen a 73% increase in value since a judge ruled it is not a security.

Binance has raised almost $2.5 million worth of BNB through the public sale of ARKM tokens on behalf of Arkham Intelligence. The sale raised 10,288 BNB tokens from 114,454 participants, with each ARKM token sold for approximately $0.05.

Binance, the world's top cryptocurrency exchange in terms of daily trading volume, is facing technical difficulties and has suspended certain market order functions. The platform has temporarily halted Market Order-Total and Slider for Amount Customization for all spot and margin trading pairs due to a technical issue.

Open interest on XRP futures has hit a new record high for the year, surpassing $1.1 billion in the past 24 hours. XRP tokens have seen a 6% surge for two consecutive days, reaching 80 cents before dropping back. The majority of these positions are held on Binance, with $443 million worth of open interest.

Binance will perform a scheduled system maintenance for selected Binance Earn products at 2023-07-20 06:00 (UTC). The maintenance will take approximately one hour.

According to Binance, Binance will open trading for the ACA/TRY, AVAX/TUSD, COMP/TUSD, COMP/TRY and XEC/TRY trading pairs at 2023-07-20 08:00 (UTC).

The ARKM token from Arkham Intelligence will be listed on Binance today at 12 PM UTC, with market makers GSR Markets and Wintermute participating. To prepare for the listing, 50 million ARKM tokens were deposited directly to Binance, providing liquidity. GSR Markets received 20 million tokens, with 4.5 million sent to Binance and 2 million sent to Bybit, while Wintermute received 15 million tokens. Additionally, 30 million ARKM tokens were transferred to the Airdrop contract, potentially indicating a future distribution to holders or participants in the ARKM ecosystem.

Crypto traders are expressing pessimism towards Binance's native coin BNB in the derivatives market due to regulatory turmoil. The open interest-weighted funding rate for BNB turned negative, indicating that traders betting on a price decline are willing to pay those waiting on gains to keep their bearish positions open.

Binance will support the Harmony (ONE) and IoTeX (IOTX) network upgrades and hard forks.

According to Binance official, Binance will list Arkham (ARKM) in the innovation zone and open trading for ARKM/BTC, ARKM/USDT, ARKM/TUSD, ARKM/BNB and ARKM/TRY trading pairs at 2023-07-18 12:00 (UTC).

According to official, Binance will open trading for the WBETH/USDT trading pair at 2023-07-19 06:00 (UTC).

According to Lookonchain, about 7 hours ago, a giant whale withdrew 4 million ARB (worth about $5.28 million) from Binance to a wallet with an address starting with '0x695'.

Binance has ended its partnership with the Argentine soccer association after just one year, citing a breach of contract. The company stated that the AFA had not fully complied with its contractual obligations, which goes against their business values and partnership principles.

Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao has confirmed that the exchange is laying off staff, but denies that the numbers reported in the media are accurate. In a tweet, Zhao stated that involuntary terminations are a common occurrence in every company.

Binance, the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange, has announced its support for the Terra (LUNA) Phoenix v2.4 software upgrade. The upgrade is expected to take place on July 18 at 13:00 UTC and Binance will suspend LUNA deposits and withdrawals an hour before the upgrade.

Binance will resume the “Market Order - Total” feature for the impacted Spot and Margin trading pairs at 2023-07-19 02:00 (UTC). The feature was suspended at 2023-05-07 09:00 (UTC).

According to an official announcement, Binance opened the investment channel for Arkham (ARKM) on July 17th at 14:00 (GMT+8). This Launchpad adopts an investment mode based on users' 6-day average BNB holdings. The investment period for this round is 24 hours.

Adam Cochran, tweeted, citing a document from the media outlet Protos, that for the 1,000 employees who were laid off, Binance didn't notify them or their managers, but instead were laid off immediately. Some were told to sign an NDA non-disclosure agreement in return for a small payment, while others were given nothing.

According to Binance, Now has launched a new feature enabling users to obtain multiple deposit addresses for a single network. A new deposit address book function has been rolled out accordingly to allow easy management of the multiple deposit addresses. With the release, users can now manage funds more efficiently and with more flexibility on Binance.