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Evening Standard
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Simon Hunt

Binance customers withdraw over £1 billion in 24 hours after SEC lawsuit

More than £1 billion in crypto has been withdrawn from the world’s largest digital asset exchange in the past 24 hours after the firm was dealt a hammer blow by the US financial watchdog suing it for breaching securities law.

Binance saw $1.6 billion (£1.3 billion) in Ethereum outflows since yesterday, data from analytics business Nansen shows, while inflows stood at $872 million, amounting to the biggest single-day net outflow since fears spread of a banking crisis in March.

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