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NEW: A federal judge in Manhattan has dismissed a civil lawsuit that sought to hold @binance, the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange, and its founder, Changpeng Zhao @cz_binance, legally responsible for crypto transactions they say were allegedly used to fund terrorist groups. The plaintiffs who sued CZ accused him of facilitating 64 terrorist attacks around the world by arguing that his company Binance facilitated terror financing after plaintiffs alleged several Foreign Terrorist Organizations were using Binance. U.S. District Judge Jeannette Vargas ruled that the 535 plaintiffs, consisting of terror attack victims and their relatives, failed to plausibly show that Binance or Zhao "culpably associated themselves with these terrorist attacks, participated in them as something they wanted to bring about, or sought by their actions to ensure their success." The original complaint was notably 891 pages with 3,189 paragraphs, which the judge described in her ruling as "wholly unnecessary" given the core allegations in the case. This dismissal represents a significant win for Binance and Zhao in the case brought under United States anti-terrorism financing laws and it answers questions surrounding possible culpability of crypto platforms whose users may or may not be engaged in criminal or terrorist activity in violation of platform policies. This is certainly an interesting case that is paving the way for more case law as it pertains to understanding sanctions, terror financing and platform liability in the evolving technological world we now live in.