Binance's BUSD Sees $500 Million In Outflows Following CFTC Lawsuit

Binance's BUSD has suffered over $500 million in outflows following the lawsuit brought by the CFTC. However, the impact on the stablecoin was comparatively limited to that seen after the enforcement action on Paxos last month.

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According to statistics, on March 26, the stablecoin economy was valued at $135 billion, with the top stablecoins representing $31.8 billion or 75% of the $42.17 billion in 24-hour global trade volume across the entire crypto market. In the last two weeks since March 11, 7.06 billion USDC and 351.57 million BUSD have been redeemed.

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.

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.

Binance USD (BUSD) has suffered a steep decline in active addresses following the regulatory crackdown by U.S. authorities. This development continues a series of dips within the Binance ecosystem in recent weeks.

Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase (NASDAQ: COIN) on Monday announced that it will suspend trading of stablecoin Binance USD (CRYPTO: BUSD) on March 13 this year, due to non-compliance with the platform's listing requirements.

Per a report from crypto news outlet The Block, crypto exchange Coinbase will halt trading operations with the Binance-branded stablecoin, BUSD. The digital asset has been heavily scrutinized following the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Wells Notice against its issuer, Paxos.

The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) issued a Wells notice to the BUSD issuer Paxos earlier this month. Since the Binance CEO, Changpeng Zhao (CZ), broke the news, the second and third-largest stablecoins have witnessed diverse movements.

Key Points: Recently, 140,000,000 BUSD were burned at the Paxos Treasury, causing the Binance Dollar (BUSD) to fall out of the top 10 by capitalization. As Paxos received a death sentence from US regulators, BUSD is rapidly disappearing off the market's stablecoin map.

After Paxos announced that it would no longer mint the stablecoin BUSD, 4.98 billion BUSD stablecoins have been removed from circulation to date. The Paxos-managed stablecoin has also fallen out of the top ten crypto assets by market capitalization, slipping below dogecoin's valuation with a market cap of around $11.