Binance Replaces BUSD with TUSD and USDT in SAFU Fund

Cryptocurrency exchange Binance has replaced its Binance USD (BUSD) holdings in its Secure Asset Fund for Users (SAFU) with TrueUSD (TUSD) and Tether (USDT) in response to Paxos' move to stop minting new BUSD. SAFU is an emergency insurance fund established by Binance to protect users' funds in case of security breaches or other unforeseen events.

Timeline of Binance-usd, Trueusd, Tether

Binance – the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange – announced that it has converted the BUSD stablecoin it its SAFU fund. The Secure Asset Fund for Users (SAFU) was launched by the exchange back in 2018 as an emergency insurance fund in order to protect users.

Binance News: Back on January 29, 2022, Binance unveiled the “Secure Asset Fund for Users (SAFU), which is an emergency insurance fund valued at $1 billion to safeguard its users from any catastrophic event. The SAFU fund wallets were initially stocked with BNB, BUSD, and BTC.

Tether (USDT) maintains its leadership with a 10% increase in market cap over the past month. In contrast, other stablecoins such as USD Coin (USDC), Binance USD (BUSD), and DAI record a continuous decline.

The market capitalization of the popular stablecoin tether (USDT) has risen as other stablecoins, including Circle's USD coin (USDC) and MakerDAO's DAI briefly lost their pegs over the weekend.

In a rapid turn of events, Tether's stablecoin dominance has surged to its highest point in a year and a half, a feat crypto watchers attribute to difficulties surrounding rival stablecoins USDC and BUSD.

The market reacted with a big sell-off, depegging the stablecoin from the dollar, just after Circle disclosed Silicon Valley Bank did not transfer $3.3 billion of its USD Coin holdings. Not all crypto investors, however, had the good fortune to escape from the unforeseen condition with their funds.

Key Points: Tether, one of the world's major stablecoin issuers, has accused The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) of printing and distributing misleading information about the firm and its procedures.

In 2022, however, the implosion of the algorithmic stablecoin UST had put fears into circulation that also concerned Tether's resilience. And so its market capitalization declined, due to many USDT returns.

Tether (CRYPTO: USDT), faced a critical situation in late 2018 when its parent company and affiliates struggled to maintain access to the global banking system. A recent review of emails and documents revealed that the companies took the recourse of shadowy intermediaries, fake documents, and shell companies to reinstate their access as reported by the Wall Street journal.

Tether's woes look like they are not going away soon, with the company in a fraud scandal. According to a report by WSJ, top shareholders backing the company made fake documents and shell companies to help the company enter the mainstream payment system.