CZ: ‘Landscape is shifting,’ following 15% drop in BUSD market cap

Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao (CZ) said the “landscape is shifting,’ concerning stablecoin movements triggered by caller regulatory pressures.

Tether gains astatine BUSD’s expense

The Binance CEO tweeted details of changes successful the valuations of the apical 3 stablecoins. He said BUSD’s marketplace headdress had fallen by astir $2.5 cardinal to $13.7 cardinal — a 15% decrease, sinking to a 14-month low.

USDC’s marketplace headdress besides declined — albeit to a lesser grade — falling 1.7% to $41.5 billion.

Tether is the victor successful each this, signaling a 3.5% summation successful marketplace headdress to $70.1 cardinal — posting a 15-month precocious successful the process.

“BUSD marketplace headdress dropped -$2.45B (from 16.1B to 13.7B arsenic of now), and astir of it has moved to USDT.

USDT marketcap + 2.37B (From 67.8B to 70.1B)

USDC besides declined -739M (from 42.3B to 41.5B).”

Changes successful stablecoin valuations suggest the marketplace is acrophobic astir caller crackdowns against BUSD, arsenic levied by the SEC and New York Department of Financial Services (NYFDS).

Despite long-running issues with Tether — regarding its reserves and whether the institution is sufficiently liquid to conscionable its liabilities — it seems retired of each the large stablecoins, Tether has the astir spot from marketplace participants.

On Feb. 16, Tether released a blog post detailing its continued simplification successful commercialized insubstantial exposure. The institution claimed USDT is present 81% backed by currency and currency equivalents.

Binance successful blistery water?

On Feb. 13, the SEC issued a Wells announcement to BUSD-issuer Paxos implicit allegations the stablecoin is an unregistered security. Shortly after, the NYDFS ordered Paxos to halt BUSD issuance.

CZ has distanced Binance from the enforcement actions — astir precocious successful the supra tweet — saying, “BUSD is NOT issued by Binance.”

Binance U.S. is under investigation implicit imaginable violations of wealth laundering rules. Binance Chief Strategy Officer Patrick Hillmann played down the reports, saying the institution is successful interaction with “virtually each regulator crossed the globe connected a regular basis.”

On Feb. 16, Reuters reported details of an inappropriate $404 cardinal transfer from Binance U.S. to a institution managed by CZ.

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