July 2 (Reuters) - Thailand's financial watchdog filed a criminal complaint against cryptocurrency exchange Binance on Friday for operating a digital asset business without a licence, the latest in a string of crackdowns on the platform by regulators globally.

The BitMEX cofounder created a cryptocurrency exchange that has traded trillions. Now he's wanted by U.S. authorities, and insiders wonder whether he and his partners are villains-or victims of a two-tiered justice system that favors big banks over brash outsiders.

Coinbase said it will suspend trading of XRP, the cryptocurrency the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission sued Ripple Labs in regards to last week claiming it is really a security. Coinbase first listed XRP on its retail-facing platforms in February 2019. Starting now, XRP trading "will move into limit only," Coinbase wrote.

The further we get from election day, the more questions that are raised about the manner in which voting was conducted, especially in just enough battleground states that Democrat Joe Biden needed to flip blue in order to 'win.'

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) today announced it has filed "an emergency action and obtained temporary restraining order" against two offshore entities behind Telegram's TON digital token offering. According to the SEC's complaint, Telegram Group and TON Issuer Inc. sold "approximately 2.9 billion digital tokens called 'Grams' at discounted prices to 171 initial purchasers ...