Despite poor management problems regarding the exchange's pegged tokens that appeared earlier this month and other mishaps, Binance's BUSD stablecoin has continued to drop recently.
Per the cryptocurrency price tracker CoinGecko, the circulation supply of BUSD decreased to $15.4 billion on Wednesday, losing $1 billion over the previous week and $2 billion over the previous month. The most recent dip increased BUSD's decline from $22 billion at the beginning of December, when worried consumers rushed to withdraw money from Binance after it misrepresented the amount of digital currency reserves in its reserves.
Underneath the Binance name, the New York-based fintech company Paxos Trust has launched BUSD, a stablecoin tied to the dollar and supported by U.S. reserves of Treasury bills. Stablecoins are used by traders as a middleman to convert conventional fiat currency to digital assets and to streamline cryptocurrency trading.
Recent reports about mistakes with the exchange's wrapped token derivatives, known as Binance-peg tokens, have coincided with the most recent fall.
A blockchain research company called ChainArgos discovered earlier this month that the Binance-pegged BUSD wasn't always completely guaranteed by reserves in 2020 and 2021. Binance declared that it has since fixed them after acknowledging the issue. According to a Bloomberg story published this week, the exchange combined client funds with Binance-peg token collateral.
Retail traders may suffer a setback when Binance's banking partner Signature Bank stops using the SWIFT interbank messaging system for transfers under $100,000 as of February 1.
Due to the recent problems, BUSD is now further behind stablecoin competitors in what has grown to be a tough battle. According to information from DefiLlama, a company that monitors the development of digital assets, BUSD lost 11.3% of its market value in a month, whereas USDT increased 1.3% and USDC decreased merely 1.9%. However, either of the top three stablecoins, BUSD, had a rise in market value in 2018.
According to a study by the research firm CryptoCompare, the total market capitalization of stablecoins decreased to $137 billion in January for the tenth month in a row. According to CryptoCompare, stablecoin domination in the overall cryptocurrency market fell to 12.4% from an all-time high of 16.5% in December, indicating that traders have been switching from stablecoins to risky investments.
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