Whale Alert blockchain tracking service has spread the word about a massive lump of 350 million XRP getting shifted from Binance exchange.
Whales and exchanges move 465 million XRP
This amount of crypto is worth a whopping $134,818,654. The transaction was made on Nov. 16.
Overall, XRP whales have been quite active in the past few days; on Wednesday, approximately half a billion Ripple-affiliated tokens were transacted in total. This includes the aforementioned transfer from Binance.
Earlier today, Whale Alert also spotted three transactions, carrying a total of 115 million XRP in lumps of 30 million and 40 million coins.
Data provided by XRP-centered Bithomp stated that the 350 million transfer was conducted by Binance. Also, Kraken exchange moved 30,000,000 internally, as well as Ripple's Mexico-based ODL platform Bitso. The latter shifted 40,200,000 XRP between its wallets.
A total of 45,000,000 coins was wired from a Bittrex wallet to Bitso exchange. This makes a total of 465 million XRP transferred in the past 24 hours, per Whale Alert data.
🚨 🚨 🚨 🚨 🚨 🚨 🚨 🚨 🚨 🚨 350,000,000 #XRP (134,818,654 USD) transferred from #Binance to unknown wallethttps://t.co/o246HD5BWo
— Whale Alert (@whale_alert) November 16, 2022
"If Binance collapses, it's pretty much game over": DOGE creator
Dogecoin co-founder Billy Markus has recently made yet another comment on the recent collapse of the FTX exchange after its founder Sam Bankman-Fried filed for insolvency.
Markus tweeted that should the same happen to Binance exchange or even to Tether stablecoin, this would be a deadly blow to the cryptocurrency market — "If either does, it's pretty much game over" is how he chose to put this.
to anyone worrying about binance and/or tether collapsing, if either does it’s pretty much game over
— Shibetoshi Nakamoto (@BillyM2k) November 16, 2022
it’s good that more of y’all are finally figuring out what this whole thing is and how the centralized stuff is a big ol’ weakness, but also, it was like this when ya bought too
He tweeted that the whole crypto market is heavily centralized, which makes it pretty weak.
As a reminder, there was a moment when Binance offered a bailout to FTX, and CZ singed a nonbinding letter of intention, leaving himself a chance to withdraw from the deal at any moment. He did so when he realized that the problems of the exchange are beyond Binance's ability to help.
Alex Dovbnya
