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Leo Schwartz

Binance to leave Canada—the one-time home of cofounder CZ—claiming market conditions are 'no longer tenable'

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On Friday, Binance, the largest crypto exchange, announced on Twitter that it would be "proactively withdrawing" from Canada.

"We had high hopes for the rest of the Canadian blockchain industry," the company wrote in a tweet. "Unfortunately, new guidance related to stablecoins and investor limits provided to crypto exchanges makes the Canada market no longer tenable for Binance at this time."

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