BTC 📉 $10,206 (-0.25%) / ETH 📈 $210 (+6.98%) / XRP 📈 $0.29 (+10.28%) Binance leads $200M investment round in Chinese crypto-data website Mars Finance Binance made a strategic investment in crypto-data website Mars Finance. This is the first time the dominant exchange invested in a Chinese company since Beijing banned cryptocurrency trading in 2017.

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