📰 News today
1. Scheduled maintenance: suspension of deposits and withdrawals
• Binance has performed an update of its wallet network, temporarily blocking all deposits and withdrawals for approximately 15 minutes, starting at 08:00 UTC on July 31, while trading operations remained active .
• Binance emphasized that this process aims to improve efficiency and security. They recommend avoiding transactions during this interval to prevent delays or errors post-maintenance .
2. Support for THORChain (RUNE) update
• Binance temporarily suspended deposits and withdrawals of the RUNE token from 17:00 UTC on July 31, in support of a critical network upgrade of THORChain (block height ≈ 22,198,000 around 18:00 UTC) .
• This is a preventive pause, not related to security incidents, and the trading of RUNE was not interrupted .
3. Suspension of deposits and withdrawals of INJ due to Injective update
• Binance announced that it will temporarily pause deposits and withdrawals of INJ, starting at 13:00 UTC on July 31, to support a hard fork of the Injective network .
• Binance clarified that the measure is standard, does not pose risks to users, and advises conducting transactions before the cutoff .
4. Listing of Naoris Protocol (NAORIS) and airdrop in Binance Alpha and Futures
• Binance announced the listing of the NAORIS token on Binance Alpha at 12:00 UTC and on the Binance Futures market at 12:30 UTC on July 31.
• Eligible users can claim 500 NAORIS tokens via an airdrop in two phases: phase 1 (≥228 Alpha points) and phase 2 (≥200 Alpha points), with a 24-hour claim period and progressive decrease of the threshold .
5. Markets: BNB reaches a new all-time high
• Binance Coin (BNB) climbed above $855 USD, marking a new all-time peak after its recovery from $504 in February.
