Audits

Senator Elizabeth Warren (Leigh Vogel/Getty Images)
U.S. Senate’s Warren Calls for Crackdown on ‘Sham’ Crypto Audits
The senator and her Democratic colleague Ron Wyden asked the U.S. auditing watchdog to rein in bogus audits in the digital assets sector.
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SEC Increases Scrutiny of Audits of Cryptocurrency Companies: WSJ
Having proof of reserve reports is not enough information for an investor, according to Paul Munter, the SEC's acting chief accountant.
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Audit Firms Don’t Want to Work With Crypto Companies, and That’s a Problem
Mazars and Armanino are getting out of the crypto audit game after a wave of negative PR.
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Binance Losing Auditing Partner Mazars Leaves Crypto Questions Unanswered
Auditing firm Mazars, which had published a proof of reserves report for Binance and other exchanges, on Friday cut ties with clients in the crypto industry.
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Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao (Wikimedia)
CryptoQuant: On-Chain Data Shows Crypto Exchange Binance Isn't Exhibiting ‘FTX-Like’ Behavior
The analytics firm found the exchange is almost entirely collateralized and diversified away from its proprietary token.
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Coinbase’s Prime Broker Platform Receives Industry Attestation Reports
The reports look at internal controls over financial reporting, as well as controls based on trust principles.
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Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao at Consensus Singapore 2018 (CoinDesk)
Binance's Bitcoin Reserves Are Overcollateralized, New Report Says
Mazars performed a proof-of-reserves and proof-of-liabilities assessment on the centralized exchange.
Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao at Consensus Singapore 2018 (CoinDesk)

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Crypto Update | 'A Complete Failure of Corporate Controls': What Investors and Accountants Missed in FTX’s Audits (Pt. 2)
With bitcoin regaining $16K after dipping to a two-year low earlier in the week, plus a deeper look at the troubled transactions inside FTX, CoinDesk’s “Markets Daily” is back...
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Terraform Labs founder Do Kwon (Terra, modified by CoinDesk)
Luna Foundation Guard Spent $2.8B Defending UST Peg, Third-Party Audit Finds
Terraform Labs founder Do Kwon dismissed similarities with the collapse of FTX.
Terraform Labs founder Do Kwon (Terra, modified by CoinDesk)

Crypto auditing protocol Sherlock raised $4 million in a funding round. (Horst Schwalm/Pixabay)
Crypto Auditing Platform Sherlock Raises $4M in Funding
The protocol features an open auditor competition to help find smart contract vulnerabilities
Crypto auditing protocol Sherlock raised $4 million in a funding round. (Horst Schwalm/Pixabay)