"Binance invested US$500 million towards the acquisition of Twitter by Elon Musk that completed in October 2022.
Following the investment, the company announced the creation of a team to work on
how blockchain and cryptocurrencies could be helpful to Twitter.
On 8 November 2022, Binance offered to buy rival cryptocurrency exchange FTX's non-US operations"
On November 21, 2023, a US judge convicted Binance on multiple charges—including violations of the Bank Secrecy Act, money laundering schemes, unlicensed money transmitting, and sanctions violations. As part of the plea deal, the company agreed to pay $4 billion in fines
"According to a 2024 study by John Griffin, a finance professor at the University of Texas at Austin, Binance is the most popular exchange used in pig butchering scams.
Binance has occasionally cooperated with US law enforcement to return money lost in such scams.
In November 2024, FTX filed a lawsuit against Binance Holdings Ltd., Binance’s former CEO Changpeng Zhao, and other Binance executives, seeking to recover nearly $1.8 billion that FTX alleges was fraudulently transferred"
On January 31, 2024, Binance was sued by the US victims of the 2023 Hamas-led attack on Israel, as well as their families, in Manhattan federal court for allegedly facilitating Hamas's terrorist activities by providing a funding mechanism for Hamas.
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