The Binance exchange announced the suspension of an employee who used insider information for personal gain. Knowing the content of an upcoming post from the official Binance Futures account on social network X on December 7, he launched a token with a matching name and design just seconds before the post went live.
Binance called this an abuse of official position and a violation of the exchange's professional conduct code. The employee was "immediately suspended from work and is awaiting further disciplinary measures," Binance stated.
"We have already made contact and will actively cooperate with the relevant authorities in the employee's jurisdiction and take corresponding legal actions in accordance with applicable legislation," the exchange's message says.
The incident with the token was discovered after user complaints. The Binance team wrote that it welcomes continued monitoring from the community and paid $100 thousand to the first five informants on this matter.
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Judging by the surviving screenshots, it might be about the token 'year of yellow fruit'. Its design coincided with the text from the now-deleted publication "The year of the yellow fruit and harvest! Plant wisely. Harvest abundantly".
The token's price soared more than 6000% after the post appeared, then collapsed. Notably, the publication about Binance's investigation coincided with an even stronger "pump" of the token.
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