Binance verbietet der indischen Börse WazirX die Nutzung ihrer Dienste

• Binance und WazirX befinden sich seit 2022 in einem Eigentumsstreit.
• WazirX entließ 40% seiner Belegschaft aufgrund makroökonomischer Bedingungen.

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Die Krise zwischen der Krypto-Börse Binance und Zanmai Labs, dem Unternehmen, das die indische Börse WazirX betreibt, erreichte am Freitag ein neues Level, nachdem Binance bekannt gab, dass es dem Unternehmen die Nutzung seiner Krypto-Börse untersagt hatte Dienstleistungen.

Laut einem Blog Post Am Freitag teilte Binance mit, dass Zanmai Labs die Bedingungen für die Abhebung aller in Binance-Wallets gespeicherten verbleibenden Gelder aushandeln soll. Die Lösung beendet offenbar die Bedenken, was mit den Nutzergeldern passieren würde, wenn beide Plattformen ihre Partnerschaft beenden, aber sie scheint ihren Konflikt noch weiter verschärft zu haben.

Binance schrieb in dem Stück,

Ausnahmsweise haben wir Zanmai eingeladen, Vereinbarungen mit uns auszuarbeiten, um alle verbleibenden Guthaben auf den entsprechenden Konten nach dem [2. 3]. Letztendlich liegt die Verantwortung jedoch beim Zanmai-Team, die Abhebungen zügig vorzunehmen.

WazirX later announced on Friday that it had started the process of moving assets to multi-sig wallets and anticipated finishing it “within the next few hours.” The news comes weeks after WazirX disclosed that 90% of its users’ assets are held in Binance wallets and the remaining 10% are held in cold storage wallets, less than a month after that disclosure.

WazirX is India’s biggest exchange. But the company faced difficulties in 2022 after local authorities claimed it had helped launder about $130 million. Authorities froze funds on WazirX, and Binance distanced itself from the embattled exchange, triggering their feud.

Binance CEO ChangPeng Zhao wrote at the time that “Binance does not own any shares in Zanmai Labs, the entity operating WazirX and established by the original founders.”

Zhao’s subsequent posts incited panic among WazirX users, as he claimed that Binance had the right to shut down WazirX and urged users to transfer their assets to his exchange instead. Zhao tweeted at the time,

Binance provides wallet services for WazirX. WazirX domain is transferred to our control. We were given a shared access to an AWS account. We could shut down WazirX. But we can’t, because it hurts users. If you have funds on WazirX, you should transfer it to Binance. Simple as that.

Nischal Shetty, the co-founder of WazirX, later rubbished Zhao’s claims and revealed that plans were in place to sort out ownership concerns.

WazirX had to lay off 40% of its workforce in the following months due to macroeconomic concerns, India’s high taxation, the crypto contagion made worse by the FTX crash, and other factors. 

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