DOT's recent ascent began on Dec. 23 when Binance announced a $10 million fund to support projects built on Polkadot.
Cryptocurrency exchange Binance said a new South Korean law going into effect early next year was another factor.
NGC Ventures, Capital6 Eagle and Amber Group co-led the round.
Cryptocurrency exchange Binance will likely earn between $800 million and $1 billion this year. That's up from about $570 million in 2019.
Binance is giving U.S. users 14 days to withdraw funds before their accounts are shuttered.
Binance said user demand prompted the new listing.
Binance sued Forbes for defamation Wednesday over a story last month that purported to reveal regulatory evasion tactics.
The exchange is discontinuing its own BGBP stablecoin, an "experiment" that obviously wasn't a success.
The Chinese government cracks down on the crypto exchanges (again), but Binance has been benefiting.
The exchange has awarded a bounty of $200,000 to private investigators who helped now-indicted bad actors who attacked the exchange in 2018.
Centralized exchange tokens have been skyrocketing this year, but there is one problem behind the astonishing performance: They are becoming more like equity.
Platforms using an older version of the Ethereum client Geth experienced an accidental split of the chain Wednesday morning.
Having raised the funds at launch on Binance Smart Chain in October, the operator fled with users' cryptocurrency "within an hour," Binance said.
DeFi indices on FTX and Binance continue to plummet.
Crypto trading colossus Binance created a corporate plan for profiting from the U.S. market while avoiding regulatory scrutiny, Forbes reported Thursday, citing a 2018 document it obtained.