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MLB Team Washington Nationals Partners With Terra Blockchain Community, Ballpark Plans to Accept UST

On February 9, the American professional baseball team based in Washington, D.C., the Washington Nationals, announced the team has partnered with Terra, the open-source blockchain platform and decentralized autonomous organization (DAO). The Washington Nationals detail that the team is a “leading innovator” and is “consistently introducing new technologies to enhance the fan experience.” Washington Nationals Ink Long-Term Deal With Terra Major League Baseball (MLB) team the Washington Nationals has partnered with the blockchain platform and DAO Terra, according to an announcement published by the team on Wednesday. The deal with Terra follows a slew of sports-related deals with crypto firms, but the MLB team will be the first to partner with an open-source blockchain project. In addition to the partnership, the algorithmic stablecoin UST that’s issued on the Terra blockchain will be “accepted as a payment method at Nationals Park as early as next season.” “The Nationals continue t...
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Globetrotting Binance looks to Ireland for ‘centralized’ headquarters

Binance established three subsidiaries in Ireland during September and the globe trotting exchange may be settling down.

Under pressure from regulators around the world, major exchange Binance is looking to establish a headquarters in Ireland. Until now it has operated globally for years under what its chief executive, Changpeng Zhao (CZ) has described as a “decentralized” structure.

An Oct. 6 report from Irish media outlet Independant noted that Binance had established three subsidiaries in the country on Sept. 27 — Binance (APAC) Holdings, Binance (Services) Holdings, and Binance Technologies — with CZ listed as the director for each.

In an interview with Reuters published the next day, CZ stated that Binance is currently “in the process of establishing a few headquarters in different parts of the world.” When asked if Ireland was part of Binance’s plans for formal headquarters, CZ responded: “Yes, it does.”

"Historically, we claim that we don't have headquarters,” said CZ, adding:

“When we first started we wanted to embrace the decentralized principles, no headquarters, work all around the world, no borders. It's very clear now to run a centralized exchange, you need a centralized, legal entity structure behind it."

Binance’s move to bolster its compliance comes as regulators around the world have taken action to limit the services provided by the exchange or warn their citizens against trading on the unlicensed platform.

Binance’s corporate structure has long been opaque, with Reuters reporting that its holding company is registered in the Cayman Islands.

After being founded in China during July 2017, Binance quickly found itself playing regulatory arbitrage around the world after the Chinese government launched a crackdown on domestic crypto exchanges that year. Binance quickly moved its headquarters to Tokyo, before expanding into Hong Kong and Taiwan.

Binance turns to Malta

Binance had expressed its intent to launch operations in Malta during March of 2018, with then-Maltese prime minister Joseph Muscat personally welcoming the firm on social media. Binance went on to register its charity and European services subsidiaries in the island nation. 

Despite the Malta Financial Services Authority announcing in July 2018 that it was still working on a regulatory framework for licensing crypto firms, the exchange appeared to become very cozy with the local administration.

CZ frequently appeared alongside government officials and then-President of Malta Marie-Louise Coleiro Preca was appointed to the senior advisory board of both Binance Charity and the Binance-backed Blockchain Charity Foundation.

Related: New Malta Government Says It Still Wants to Run a ‘Blockchain Island’

In February 2020, the MSFA announced that local reports claiming Binance to be a Malta-based exchange were false, asserting that “Binance is not authorized by the MFSA to operate in the cryptocurrency sphere and is therefore not subject to regulatory oversight by the MFSA.”

While the reports appeared to catch much of the media and crypto community off-guard, CZ took to Twitter asserting that “Nothing has changed in Malta, for Binance or any other crypto exchanges. No licenses were granted to anyone by Malta, as of yet.”

In July of this year, the MFSA issued a fresh warning emphasizing that Binance is not licensed to operate in Malta.

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