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The ownership tug of war between WazirX and Binance continues

by Sandra Theres Dony
August 6, 2022
in Crypto, Crypto Exchanges, Trending
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WazirX, once hailed as the largest cryptocurrency exchange based in India is caught in a web of controversies. The recent raids conducted by the Indian Enforcement Directorate on its parent company, Zanmai labs have opened an unexpected can of worms. Raids were conducted on Friday on the WazirX director following which their bank assets worth Rs. 64.67 crores were frozen by the agency. Binance, probably in an effort to distance itself from any imminent revelations that the ED raids could bring forth has disowned WazirX.

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In the year 2019, it was claimed that Binance had bought WazirX. Looks like the deal was never finalized, and neither Binance nor WazirX felt the need to clear the air about the deal for almost three years. The shocking revelation was only the prologue to the Twitter war that broke out between WazirX CEO Nischal Shetty and Binance CEO Chanpeng Zao.

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The Tug Of War

The revelation by Binance CEO that the deal was never carried out raised the bar of suspicion over WazirX which is already under scrutiny. However, Nischal Shetty was not ready to be sangfroid. He went ahead to dispute the claims made by the Binance CEO on Twitter and soon it turned to a war of words between Zhao and Shetty, with neither ready to back out. Let us take a look at the tweets.

1/ FACTS about WazirX & Binance:

WazirX was acquired by Binance

Zanmai Labs is an India entity owned by me & my co-founders

Zanmai Labs has license frm Binance to operate INR-Crypto pairs in WazirX

Binance operates crypto to crypto pairs, processes crypto withdrawal…

— Nischal (Shardeum) 🔼 (@NischalShetty) August 5, 2022

It hurts users.

Binance does NOT have control on operations including "user sign-up, KYC, trading and initiating withdrawals", as stated earlier. WazirX's founding team controls that. This was never transferred, despite our requests. The deal was never closed. No share xfers.

— CZ 🔶 BNB (@cz_binance) August 5, 2022

Not us fighting. ED investigating WazirX. We only want to help.

— CZ 🔶 BNB (@cz_binance) August 6, 2022

Fact: we asked for transferring of WazirX system source code, deployment, operations, as recently as Feb this year. This was refused by WazirX. Binance do NOT have control on their systems.

WazirX has been uncooperative with us, and looks like uncooperative with ED as well.

— CZ 🔶 BNB (@cz_binance) August 6, 2022

While Zhao insists that Binance does not have any “control over operations,” Shetty is only too sure about the lack of veracity of those claims. In the long Twitter thread, Shetty reminds the largest cryptocurrency exchange in the world to not “confuse Zanmai and WazirX.” However, the Binance CEO emphasizes the fact that it only provides wallet services to WazirX.

“Binance provides wallet services to WazirX. WazirX domain is transferred to our control. We were given a shared access to an AWS account. We could shut down WazirX. But we can’t, because…It hurts users.” 

Soon enough Shetty countered the claims made by Zhao using his own statements. The WazirX CEO took Zhao’s statement “we could shut down WazirX” as an indication of Binance’s control over the exchange. Zhao was not in the mood to back out either. He lashed out at Shetty in a counter-tweet for “playing deception wording games.”

People playing deception wording games. We can shut down the domain. It just hurts users. We do NOT have control of the trading system. You just gave the AWS login, no source code, no deployment capability. You also retained access to the AWS account, source code, deploy, etc. https://t.co/Zpp6MYlHtp

— CZ 🔶 BNB (@cz_binance) August 6, 2022

As the war of words continued on Twitter, a Twitter user came up with a suggestion to put an end to the tug of war asking who made the majority of the fee money. The following was Shetty’s response,

“Good question. Binance charges all the fees of Crypto-Crypto trading, Crypto withdrawals. Zanmai India charges INR-Crypto trading fees, INR deposit/withdrawal fees(since it operates WazirX through license obtained from Binance.” 

Let us flip through a few responses of Twitter users who were caught in the middle of this row.

Now that indeed is an important question

sir funds are safe in wazirx?

— vishwajeet kumar (@cryptoindai) August 5, 2022

https://twitter.com/stablearyan/status/1555610227776823296?s=20&t=-liiHtTgdQVZjNxj_Tq6ng

Twitter has turned into a battleground these days.

Both r big exchange CEO and fighting like a….. On social media
shame! Shame!!

— INR (@INR_USDT1978) August 6, 2022

Woah Woah! Lewd generalizations that nobody asked for. Somebody needs a lesson on political correctness.

Not to worry CZ, the world knows how the Indians are nothing more then scammers.
They've always used technology to hurt others rather then help.
They become your friendly neighborhood IT guy & then eventually hack all your systems.
Never hire or trust an Indian, ever!

— CRYPTO PAIN ⚪ (@FeelMyPainAnima) August 6, 2022

The maturity we all were in search of.

what kind of word game and sorcery is this? it's like two infant/cousins just annoying each other. you guys meet in person and solve the problem with ED both of you, for greater good and for users as well. don't break trust to users who are relying to your exchange @NischalShetty

— Joydeep Nath (@_Joydeepnath) August 6, 2022

Actual lesson to be learned: Racism is condemned.

Never trust nor do any deals with pajeets. Lesson learned.

— Beka Zlemingov (@Beka_Zlemingov) August 6, 2022

Good question.

Why the back and forth

— I guess… (@_OoJae) August 6, 2022

A Twitter spar is apparently the most mature way to deal with a crisis.

This is your idea of help? An all out argument over Twitter? I'm guess you guys have each other's contact numbers, no?

— NOTGoma.Fan (@fan_goma) August 6, 2022

Professionalism left the chat centuries ago anyway

Cant you people talk in Private , why creating so much Fud , next level unprofessionalism

— vipin gupta (@ImVipinGupta) August 6, 2022

 

Tags: #Changpeng Zhao#CryptoBinanceCrypto exchangeEDNischal ShettytrendingtwitterWazirXZanmai Labs
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