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Binance’s $1.7 Billion Blind Spot: The Iranian Sanction Leak Shaking Crypto Leadership
A group of internal investigators at Binance discovered something sometime in late 2024 or early 2025—the precise date is still up for debate—that ought to have raised red flags on every floor of the company. They discovered that Iranians had accessed over 1,500 accounts on the platform by looking through transaction records. About $1.7 billion had been transferred from two of those accounts to organizations allegedly connected to the Houthi militants in Yemen and the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps. A Binance vendor’s account was among those implicated. After gathering the evidence and documenting their ... (full story)