MANILA — The Philippines will block access to cryptocurrency giant Binance, an official said Thursday, as part of a crackdown on online trading platforms operating in the country without licenses.The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced Tuesday that Binance was not registered in the Philippines and therefore not authorized to sell or offer securities in the country.Filipinos could withdraw their investments before access to Binance's platform and apps was blocked, which was expected to happen "within three months", it said.Other online trading platforms, including OctaFX and Mitrade, will be blocked in the coming months after the SEC found they were also operating without necessary licenses."We want to keep the investing public safe," SEC Commissioner Kelvin Lester Lee told AFP on Thursday."These entities were given a chance, multiple times, over the last few years to register... the fact that a lot of them chose not to do so, that implies something to us."The SEC also asked Google and Meta to stop Binance advertisements from appearing in the Philippines."We're not the only one doing this, a lot of other countries are doing the same thing," Lee said."If you're not registered, you'll automatically have a problem."Earlier this month, former Binance chief executive Changpeng Zhao resigned his post after he and the company pleaded guilty to sweeping US money laundering violations and agreed to fines of more than $4 billion.https://news.abs-cbn.com/business/11/30/23/philippines-to-block-access-to-crypto-giant-binance$BNB #BinanceTrends

Gmmmmmm Feed Fam!
Happy Monday!
Presenting the 92nd Episode of the #ICP Pulse, your daily dose of all things on $ICP 😎
Without further Ado, LFG ICPeople🚀
1️⃣ $ICP Price action

Look who's back😏
We are up almost 9% today, cracking 5.1 USD today.
Next stop, 6 USD🫡
NFA, so DYOR.
Note that we are not going into deep analysis on On-chain or any other usual stuff, as we have to discuss what happened at the R&D Meeting, which was held on the 29th of November.

2️⃣R &D Meeting November 2023 @ DFINITY HQ
🟪Host: Lara_A_Schmid, Senior Researcher at DFINITY
Agenda
🟣ICP Zero to dApp Educate By Moritz Fuller
🟣More Auditable SNSs by Arshavir Ter-Gabrielyan
🟣100k Canister subnet by Maksym Artyunyan and Stefan
🟣ckETH by Manu Drijvers
🟣SNS treasury and critical proposals by Lara Schmid
🟣Async friendly performance counter by Andriy
🟣Buying ICP via NNS dApp by Andrew Chepreghy
🟣Websockets by Jakub Sliwinsky

🟣ICP Zero to dApp Educate By Moritz Fuller
According to Moritz, the program is,
➡️ an 8-session educational series
➡️Covers all things from basics to #BTC integration
➡️Conducted every Tuesday and Thursday
➡️You can earn some ICP rewards by submitting assignments
➡️over 600 Registered Participants
➡️Upcoming sessions on Dec 5th and 7th @ 17:30 GMT
[All lectures are available on YouTube]
➡️New Hackathon is coming in Jan 2024, so stay tuned🫡

🟣More Auditable SNSs by Arshavir Ter-Gabrielyan
According to Arshavir,
➡️This upgrade allows the community to audit SNSs via the canister API.
➡️This approach is to address issues with decentralization and security, allowing any user to monitor and self-validate their swap contributions.

🟣100k Canister subnet by Maksym Artyunyan and Stefan
According to both Maksym and Stefan,
➡️This allows subnets to accommodate about 100k canisters.
➡️This upgrade is expected to be shipped around Q4 this year.
Lazy readers, here's a screenshot for you to understand it easily.

➡️Key Focuses to be solved.

➡️Stefan explained how Hashing Performance, Checkpointing Performance and State Sync Performance are assessed.

🟣ckETH by Manu Drijvers
➡️Here, Manu explained all things on ckETH, which is almost similar to ckBTC
and the proposal to install relevant canisters is open right now.
Go vote, lads💪

➡️A UI for seamless conversions between ckETH and ETH is coming.
➡️More tokens with ckERC20 should be coming soon.

🟣SNS treasury and critical proposals by Lara Schmid
➡️Here's a snip from the meeting where Lara explains what this is all about👇

➡️This proposal aims to address the SNS treasury drains we've experienced in the past.
To put things simply, critical proposals require to reach a minimum of 20% threshold and 67% in decision-making power to be adopted.

🟣Async friendly performance counter by Andriy
Let's see what Andriy has to say👇

In addition, Andriy also demonstrated a nice demo utilizing dfx.
🟣Buying ICP via NNS dApp by Andrew Chepreghy
➡️Here, Andrew demonstrated how to use this functionality.

🟣Websockets by Jakub Sliwinsky
Here, Jakub explained how all these things started and everything related to it.
➡️Simply, this is a WebSocket built exclusively for the IC.
For non-technical folks, a WebSocket is something like a signal which communicates between servers and client devices.

In addition, a wonderful demo was demonstrated.

I know, I know this was quite lengthy.
But guess what, we've reached the end of today's episode.
Now, go share this with your #BinanceTrends Fam, and everyone else who wants some ICP alpha😉
I'll see ya tomorrow 🫡