Binance USD market cap falls beneath $10B amid rising regulatory considerations

Binance USD (BUSD) market cap has fallen beneath $10 billion for the primary time in virtually two years amid a United States regulatory crackdown on its token issuer and a deliberate delisting from a significant crypto trade.

BUSD’s marketcap has been on a steep downward trajectory since its all-time excessive (ATH) market cap of $23.49 billion on Nov. 15, just some days after the shock collapse of FTX.

As of right now, the stablecoin’s marketcap has fallen to $9.66 billion — ranges not seen since Jun. 29, 2021.

Most not too long ago, BUSD has been the topic of a possible lawsuit against Paxos by the USA Securities Change Fee (SEC) on Feb. 12 over a potential violation of investor safety legal guidelines. Since then SEC, $6.65 billion has been shaved off BUSD’s market cap.

Paxos was additionally ordered by the New York District of Monetary Providers (NYDFS) to stop minting and issuing BUSD on Feb. 12 too, which is more likely to have contributed to the stablecoin’s market cap fall.

Earlier this week, cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase introduced will probably be delisting BUSD from its trade on Mar. 13 as a result of the stablecoin “now not met our itemizing requirements,” a Coinbase spokesman instructed Cointelegraph.

The broader crypto market has additionally seen a fall in market cap, with many pointing to the latest controversy surrounding Silvergate Bank with the late filing of its annual 10-K financial report on Mar. 1.

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Upon its launch in September 2019, the Binance-branded stablecoin rapidly surged to turn out to be the third largest stablecoin behind Tether (USDT) and USD Coin (USDC).

The stablecoin is at present in 10th place by way of market cap throughout all cryptocurrencies. The following crypto token on the listing is Solana (SOL) with $7.98 billion in market cap.

Apparently, Binance CEO Changpeng ‘CZ’ Zhao acknowledged in a Feb. 14 Twitter Areas that he never thought very highly of the Binance stablecoin project, including that he thought it “might fail” when it first rolled out.

BUSD market cap dropped -$2.45B (from 16.1B to 13.7B as of now), and most of it has moved to USDT.

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

USDC additionally declined -739M (from 42.3B to 41.5B)

Panorama is shifting.

(Observe: BUSD is NOT issued by Binance.) pic.twitter.com/kVrZUYjuOh

— CZ Binance (@cz_binance) February 17, 2023

To account for the autumn in demand for BUSD, Binance not too long ago minted nearly $50 million worth of TrueUSD (TUSD) because the cryptocurrency trade seems to diversify its stablecoin holdings.