No more proof-of-reserve checks? Auditors quietly drop crypto projects from portfolios
The firms work with prominent crypto exchanges such as Binance, KuCoin, Crypto.com, Gate.io, OKX and FTX. As the FTX collapse highlighted the need for more transparency from centralized crypto exchanges, working with auditors has been the move by top crypto trading platforms to assure users that their assets are fine. However, two of the most prominent auditors have suddenly dropped their crypto auditing services, leaving exchanges hanging at a very crucial time. At the moment, the official website of the French auditing firm Mazars Group shows that its section, called Mazars Veritas, which is dedicated to crypto audits is now offline. The firm worked with several of the most prominent crypto Exchanges including Binance, KuCoin and Crypto.com. While there’s been no official announcement from Mazars at the time of writing, Binance confirmed that the auditing firm has indicated that it’s temporarily pausing its work with all its crypto clients globally. Speaking to Cointelegraph, ...