
Binance brengt "Binance Pay" voor Amerikaanse klanten
- Binance has debuted “Pay” feature for all its customers in the United States.
- The feature was launched in Feb 2021 but wasn’t available for US customers.
- Users can now send money “immediately” using their smartphones.
- Het bedrijf werkt ook aan een webversie voor de Binance Pay-functie.
- De beurs heeft ook USDC-opnames heropend.
The world’s biggest crypto exchange, Binance, has opened a new payment method for its customers in the United States. As per a blog post from the leading crypto platform, America-based customers of the exchange can now use the “Pay” feature to send money to other users quite easily, avoiding complex payment methods which take time for settlements.
As per a Tuesday blog post, Binance Pay will be available to the US customers and CEO Changpeng “CZ” Zhao said payments is one of the “most obvious use cases for crypto.” It is crucial to note that the Pay feature has been a part of the exchange’s ecosystem since February 2021 and since then, a US release has been pending.
However now, Binance Pay will allow “users to send, request and receive almost 150 different cryptocurrencies from other users, enabling instant, zero-cost crypto transfers.” This seems to be an attempt to increase the trading volume on the crypto exchange amid an increasingly bearish crypto market which has affected the prices of all the crypto coins. The exchange also removed trading fees from Bitcoin (BTC) en ether (ETH) handelsparen om het volume op het platform te versterken.
“Pay eliminates the complexities of transferring crypto to contacts as users no longer need to enter a complex deposit or withdrawal address, pay gas fees, or wait an unspecified amount of time for transactions to successfully settle,” the company said.
Momenteel kunnen in de VS gevestigde gebruikers de Binance Pay-functie onmiddellijk gebruiken vanaf hun smartphones. Het bedrijf werkt echter nog steeds aan een webgebaseerde functie die in de nabije toekomst zou kunnen worden uitgebracht.
Binance heropent USDC-opnames
As reported earlier by Bitnation, the leading crypto exchange had paused withdrawals of Circle’s USDC on the platform which gave rise to a FUD in the crypto community. Many people started withdrawing their money from the exchange which was already facing the consequences of a Reuters report stating that half of the US Department of Justice (DoJ) is gericht op het indienen van strafrechtelijke aanklachten tegen Binance.
The leading exchange denied the charges while the crypto community stated that this is a co-ordinated media attack. Due to the rumors of a DoJ investigation and potential issues in the Binance proof of reserves report, the platform’s native token, BNB, ook gecrasht.
However, the USDC withdrawals are back online on Binance as per a blog post late Tuesday. Interestingly, the exchange saw above $1 billion withdrawn from it in just 24 hours owing to fears of another insolvent firm. Although, Changpeng Zhao, the CEO and co-founder of the exchange, stated that this “is a good idea to “stress test withdrawals” on each CEX on a rotating basis.”
Er werd ook onthuld dat Binance meer dan $60 miljard aan cold wallets heeft, wat voldoende is om het geld van klanten te ondersteunen voor het geval de zaken misgaan.
Over de opnamepauze van USDC gesproken, de directeur vermeld that the channel to swap from PAX/BUSD to USDC requires going through a bank in NY in USD and since the banks were not open, the situation regarding the stablecoin couldn’t be restored.