June 17 (Reuters) – Binance, Binance.US and the US securities regulator have reached an agreement to ensure that only Binance.US employees can access short-term client funds, according to documents judicial.
Under the agreement, which still needs approval from the federal judge overseeing the case, Binance.US will take steps to ensure that no Binance Holdings official has access to private keys for its various wallets, hardware wallets, or root access to Binance. US Amazon Web Services tools showed the submitted documents.
The proposed settlement comes after the SEC sued Binance, its CEO and founder Changpeng Zhao, and the operator of Binance.US. last weekin a dramatic escalation of Campaign on the industry by US regulators. The SEC also sued the main US exchange Coinbase (COIN.O) after.
Binance.US and the SEC did not immediately respond to Reuters’ request for comment.
The US subsidiary of Binance detained dollar deposits last week and gave clients until June 13 to withdraw their dollar funds, after the SEC asked a court to freeze their assets.
Other provisions in the proposed deal will see Binance.US create new crypto wallets that employees of the global exchange do not have access to, provide additional information to the SEC, and agree to an accelerated discovery schedule, according to the documents.
Reporting by Baranjot Kaur in Bangalore; Edited by Stephen Coates and Louise Heavens
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