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Binance Increases USDC Holdings as BUSD’s Market Cap Slides Lower
21.2.2023
Eight days ago, Paxos announced that the company would no longer mint the stablecoin BUSD. Since then, the coin’s market capitalization has been sliding lower as redemptions have become more prominent. Meanwhile, a data researcher from Nansen has discovered that Binance, the largest...
Nearly 3 Billion BUSD Stablecoins Have Been Removed From the Market in 6 Days
20.2.2023
Six days ago, a few hours before the blockchain infrastructure platform Paxos announced it would no longer mint BUSD stablecoins, $2.86 billion worth of BUSD were redeemed. Currently, Binance is the most active exchange trading BUSD tokens, and the stablecoin still commands roughly 10.7% of...
Stablecoin Market Sees Supply Increase for Tether as Competitors Decline in Light of Recent Regulatory Developments
14.2.2023
While the stablecoin market has seen significant redemptions in the past three months, the supply of tether, the largest stablecoin by market capitalization, has increased by 2.46 billion since mid-November 2022. Tether is the only one of the top five stablecoins by market valuation that has seen...
Binance withdrawals and BUSD redemptions surge post Paxos crackdown
14.2.2023
Net outflows at the cryptocurrency exchange hit $788 million over the last 24 hours, however, Binance told Cointelegraph that "Funds are SAFU."
BUSD Redemptions Soar Near $290 Million in 8 Hours After NYDFS Consumer Alert
13.2.2023
Before Paxos published a press release at 6 a.m. Eastern time Monday, the stablecoin BUSD had approximately 16.16 billion tokens in circulation. In the past eight hours, nearly $290 million has been redeemed, bringing the number of BUSD in circulation to 15.87 billion. Stablecoin BUSD Sees...
Stablecoin Market in Flux: More Than $2 Billion in USDC Redemptions in 30 Days
10.2.2023
It appears that the circulation of the stablecoin usd coin has decreased while tether’s has grown, as the latest statistics paint a contrasting picture. Tether saw a 3% increase in coins in circulation over the last month, while the U.S. dollar-pegged crypto asset usd coin recorded a decrease...
Wrapped Bitcoin Project Sees 18% Redemption of Circulating Supply in 54 Days
20.1.2023
Statistics show over the course of 54 days, the number of wrapped bitcoin (WBTC) hosted on the Ethereum network has decreased by 40,156. This equates to a more than 18% redemption of the circulating supply of WBTC since Nov. 27, 2022. WBTC Remains Largest Operation in Terms of Bitcoin Custody...
BUSD Sees $5 Billion Reduction in Supply in 24 Days, Relationship With Turkish Lira Continues
6.1.2023
According to statistics, the stablecoin BUSD saw a significant drop in its supply over the past 30 days, shedding roughly 23.8% from Dec. 5, 2022, to Jan. 6, 2023. Since Dec. 13, 2022, BUSD’s supply has been reduced by more than $5 billion, going from $21.84 billion to its current level...
Valkyrie Reveals Intention to Sponsor Grayscale’s Bitcoin Trust as GBTC Discount to NAV Widens
1.1.2023
Valkyrie Investments, a Tennessee-based asset manager, has announced its intention to become the new sponsor of Grayscale’s Bitcoin Trust (GBTC). The company states that it is “uniquely qualified” for the role and plans to facilitate redemptions at net asset value (NAV) through...
Report: Genesis Global Trading’s Lending Unit Suspends Withdrawals and New Loan Originations
16.11.2022
Following Blockfi, Liquid Global, and Salt Lending halting withdrawals, reports indicate that Genesis Global Trading’s lending unit has halted customer withdrawals. Genesis’ interim chief executive officer Derar Islim said that the company’s trading and custody units were still operational....
Major stablecoins destabilized as market volatility and redemptions surge
11.11.2022
Nearly all major stablecoins lost their dollar pegs amid the FTX saga, but most have recovered again as markets stabilize
Morgan Stanley Analyst Says Crypto Economy’s Liquidity Improved, but There’s ‘No Huge Demand to Re-Leverage’
22.8.2022
An analyst at the New York-based financial services and investment management company Morgan Stanley detailed on Monday that crypto liquidity seems to be recovering. Morgan Stanley’s Sheena Shah highlighted in a note to investors that the stablecoin market capitalization is seeing fewer...
Tether Sees New Wave of Redemptions as Fear of Market Contagion Spreads
15.6.2022
Investors pulled out some $1.6 billion this week from USDT, the largest stablecoin by market capitalization, in the wake of Celsius and Three Arrows Capital facing financial woes
Decoupling of Crypto and Stocks 'Driven by Fund Redemptions', 'Should Cease' as Stock Markets Close
27.5.2022
After much talk in recent years about an increasing correlation between stocks and bitcoin (BTC), a ‘decoupling’ between the two has been observed in May, as BTC has fallen significantly more than stocks. But according to an observer, bitcoin could find support as soon as the stock market closes...
Decoupling of Crypto and Stocks 'Driven by Fund Redemptions', 'Should Cease' Today as Stock Markets Close
27.5.2022
After much talk in recent years about an increasing correlation between stocks and bitcoin (BTC), a ‘decoupling’ between the two has been observed in May, as BTC has fallen significantly more than stocks. But according to an observer, bitcoin could find support as soon as the stock market closes...
Tether in the Spotlight After USD 9B Worth of Redemptions
19.5.2022
The popular stablecoin tether (USDT) is again the subject of unwanted attention after approximately USD 9bn has been redeemed for US dollars by users in the aftermath of the terraUSD (UST) collapse.
The redemptions have come despite USDT trading on exchanges within a rounding error of its USD...
Last Month Casascius Owners Redeemed the Highest Number of Physical Bitcoins in 3 Years
3.12.2020
On November 30, 2020, bitcoin crossed an all-time price high on a few global exchanges and between spot and derivatives markets there’s been a lot of action. One metric people didn’t notice was the fact that November 2020 saw the most number of redeemed Casascius physical bitcoins...
PAX Streamlines Redemptions in Battle for Stablecoin Market Share
13.5.2019
Paxos is doubling down on a traditional approach to crypto custody and enabling instant stablecoin redemptions