Tag Archives: Binance USD (BUSD)

DAI stablecoin, with a circulation of around $4.6 billion, has surpassed BUSD amidst mounting legal troubles for the world’s largest crypto exchange, Binance. The market capitalization of BUSD has declined to $4.3 billion following the regulatory drama that started earlier this year. According to data from CoinMarketcap, BUSD circulation is down over 70% since the beginning of the year. During the same period, the circulation of DAI has also retraced but by only 20%. BUSD was...

Weeks after the failure of a series of US banks as well as the Credit Suisse chaos, the crypto market has considerably recovered but the same cannot be said for a prominent stablecoin that has served as a backbone for DeFi trades – USDC. The confidence in Circle-backed stablecoin remains severely battered as investors continue to flee to Tether (USDT), the controversial stablecoin, in search of a safety net amidst the turmoil. USDC Outflow USDC’s market cap was down by over...

Since being embroiled in a regulatory tussle, BUSD’s market cap went on a steep downward spiral. Since hitting an all-time high of $23.04 billion in November 2022, the market cap of the once-major stablecoin declined by more than 60% to $9.17 billion at the time of writing. The Paxos situation is indicative of the larger picture of crypto exchanges under assault from the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Uncertainty is looming over the stablecoin...

Coinbase – the largest crypto exchange in the United States – announced that it is halting BUSD trading one week after the stablecoin’s issuer ceased minting new units of the token.  According to a tweet from Coinbase on Monday, the exchange will suspend trading for the token across Coinbase.com, Coinbase Pro, Coinbase Exchange, and Coinbase Prime. Users can still access any BUSD held in their accounts, and withdraw it from the platform at any time.  “We regularly monitor...

According to the latest edition of CoinShares’ weekly report, outflows in digital asset investment products reached $32 million last week, a level not seen since late December 2022. The sentiment could be attributed to exchange-traded product (ETP) investors being less optimistic about recent regulatory pressures in the US relative to the wider market. Bitcoin Bears the Brunt Outflow figures surged to $62 million the mid-way through last week, even as the sentiment improved...

Members of the Aave community – a widely used decentralized lending protocol – are mulling a freeze on BUSD after a wave of regulatory pressure against its issuer, Paxos, on Monday. A newly tabled governance proposal would freeze Aave’s BUSD reserve on its Ethereum market beginning in April, only allowing users to burn BUSD tokens for their underlying value.  Abandoning BUSD The proposal in question was tabled by Marc Zeller – an Aave community member and founder of the...

The US-based blockchain infrastructure platform – Paxos Trust Company – will stop the issuance of new Binance stablecoins (BUSD) from February 21.  Despite this, the firm said it has a “strong corporate balance sheet” and vowed to continue servicing new and existing clients. Ending the Relationship With Binance As directed by the New York State Department of Financial Services (NYDFS), Paxos will halt minting new BUSD tokens next week (February 21). However, the entity will...