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Terra's Stablecoin Added as Base Currency to Binance.US

Fri, 04/22/2022 - 14:59
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Alex Dovbnya
Binance.US, the American subsidiary of the top cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume, has become the latest exchange to add Terra's UST as a base pair
Terra's Stablecoin Added as Base Currency to Binance.US
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Binance.US has made an announcement about adding a new trading pair that allows trading Bitcoin, the largest cryptocurrency, against Terra's red-hot UST stablecoin.

The American arm of the Binance exchange is not the first trading platform to introduce UST as a base currency. The Bitrue exchange added the BTC/UST pair in mid-May.

Crypto exchange OKX, one of the top Binance competitors, launched UST-based trading pairs with Bitcoin, Ethereum and Solana in early April.

The main Binance exchange also introduced trading for the BTC/UST pair earlier this month.

The third biggest stablecoin

UST has gained a lot of prominence in 2022, with its market cap swelling to nearly $18 billion, according to CoinMarketCap data. As reported by U.Today, it recently became the third biggest stablecoin overall (behind only Tether's USDT and Circle's USDC). UST remains the biggest decentralized stablecoin after nearly doubling the market cap of the Dai stablecoin.

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Terra's flagship stablecoin has attracted plenty of attention because of the Luna Foundation Guard (LFG), a nonprofit operated by Terraform Labs, which has built a massive Bitcoin reserve in order to maintain the dollar peg of the stablecoin.

Still, Terra has its fair share of detractors who believe that the project is a Ponzi scheme of enormous proportions since it requires more people to invest in it to remain sustainable.

However, Do Kwon, the controversial co-founder of Terra, is convinced that Terra will keep seeing growing demand. Decentralized finance protocol Anchor, a market for lending and borrowing, remains the top use case for UST.

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Alex Dovbnya (aka AlexMorris) is a cryptocurrency expert, trader and journalist with extensive experience of covering everything related to the burgeoning industry — from price analysis to Blockchain disruption. Alex authored more than 1,000 stories for U.Today, CryptoComes and other fintech media outlets. He’s particularly interested in regulatory trends around the globe that are shaping the future of digital assets, can be contacted at alex.dovbnya@u.today.