CoinFLEX suspended withdrawals
CoinFLEX suspended customer withdrawals amid extreme market conditions and uncertainty involving a large counterparty. A later Seychelles Supreme Court ruling records that a large customer failed to meet financial obligations, leaving a balance-sheet hole that prevented CoinFLEX from meeting client withdrawal requests and other liabilities.
Status effect: limitedConfidence: highDirect event-linked evidence: 1
Coinbase announced the Coinbase Pro sunset
Coinbase announced that Coinbase Pro would be sunset and advanced trading would move into Coinbase Advanced as part of a unified Coinbase account experience.
Status effect: limitedConfidence: highDirect event-linked evidence: 1
MAS granted Coinhako a Major Payment Institution licence
The Monetary Authority of Singapore granted Hako Technology Pte. Ltd., trading as Coinhako, a Major Payment Institution licence covering digital-payment-token services.
Status effect: activeConfidence: highDirect event-linked evidence: 2
U.S. Treasury sanctioned Garantex
The U.S. Treasury sanctioned Garantex as part of an action against Russia-based Hydra Market and a ransomware-enabling virtual currency exchange.
Status effect: limitedConfidence: highDirect event-linked evidence: 1
AutoShark stopped all platform development
The AutoShark team announced that it would stop all development, disable further minting where applicable, and redistribute or leave remaining protocol assets for community withdrawal.
Status effect: deadConfidence: highDirect event-linked evidence: 1
Bithumb Singapore ceased operations
Exchange-tracking services record Bithumb Singapore as having terminated operations during March 2022, after which no active trading pairs or volume remained.
Status effect: deadConfidence: mediumDirect event-linked evidence: 2
BitMEX founders pleaded guilty to Bank Secrecy Act violations
The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York announced that Arthur Hayes and Benjamin Delo pleaded guilty to violating the Bank Secrecy Act by willfully failing to establish, implement, and maintain an AML program at BitMEX.
Status effect: activeConfidence: highDirect event-linked evidence: 2
Binance Singapore ended DPT services
Binance.sg shut down by 2022-02-13 after the operator withdrew its licensing effort.
Status effect: deadConfidence: mediumDirect event-linked evidence: 2
CoinBene was moved to dead-side handling
Public exchange-status sources marked CoinBene dead on 2022-02-01 after the site became inaccessible and no continuity notice was found.
Status effect: deadConfidence: highDirect event-linked evidence: 1
Bitbns reported a February 2022 security incident
Bitbns later acknowledged that exchange funds had been compromised in a February 2022 security incident.
Status effect: limitedConfidence: highDirect event-linked evidence: 2
CoinBene website became inaccessible
Public exchange-status coverage stated that CoinBene's website could not be reached on 2022-02-01 and that there had been no preceding messages about maintenance, migration, or any replacement site.
Status effect: limitedConfidence: highDirect event-linked evidence: 0
Allcoin marked inactive / closed by exchange trackers
Exchange trackers and company-profile sources later marked Allcoin inactive, closed, or untracked, with zero coins / trading pairs and no reliable market activity.
Status effect: deadConfidence: mediumDirect event-linked evidence: 5