Binance interdit à Indian Exchange WazirX d'utiliser ses services

• Binance et WazirX sont en conflit de propriété depuis 2022.
• WazirX a licencié 40% de ses effectifs en raison des conditions macroéconomiques.

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La crise entre l'échange crypto Binance et Zanmai Labs, la société exploitant l'échange indien, WazirX, a atteint un nouveau niveau vendredi après que Binance a annoncé qu'il avait interdit à l'entreprise d'utiliser son prestations de service.

D'après un blog Publier partagé vendredi, Binance a demandé à Zanmai Labs de négocier les conditions de retrait de tous les fonds restants stockés dans les portefeuilles Binance. La solution met apparemment fin aux inquiétudes quant à ce qu'il adviendrait des fonds des utilisateurs si les deux plateformes mettaient fin à leur partenariat, mais elle semble avoir encore intensifié leur conflit.

Binance a écrit dans l'article,

À titre exceptionnel, nous avons invité Zanmai à trouver des arrangements avec nous pour retirer tous les actifs restants dans les comptes concernés après le [fév. 3]. Cependant, la responsabilité ultime incombe à l'équipe Zanmai d'effectuer les retraits rapidement.

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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