Below top 100 holders on TRON now hold 82.5% of supply, and that'll increase if Tether swaps more/burns what's in the treasury.
Without Cold 3 which is backing BSC-USD tokens on the BNB chain, Binance has LESS THAN $1B USDT LEFT in their wallets *in the top 100*.
On ETH, wallet #9 called Binance 74, *has more USDT in it than Binance has across ALL its hot wallets on TRON*.
Binance Cold 2, which used to hold the majority of Binance's USDT, is now *empty*.
This is while it was still at a high of $11B only a year and a half ago. Difference is previous dips in holdings was money getting shuffled and washed around.
Now it's left the chain entirely.
Arkham hasn't updated yet (and finding data that shows a chart of holdings per chain specifically is hard), but the next time they do, Binance will show ~$3.2B USDT on TRON and ~$25B USDT on ETH.
Even when the majority was TRON USDT, the relationship was never *this* lopsided.
I will remind everybody that *Binance has 50% of global market share*.
THESE ARE SUPPOSED TO BE CUSTOMER FUNDS!
Binance has converted coins on their user's behalf before - they auto-converted USDC to BUSD for example. So there is precedent for them commingling funds.
But like FTX, they're too cavalier with their customer funds, and if you chainswap $20B of funds from one chain to another over time, then there HAS to be some customer funds involved.
Or worse, there aren't, and Binance is as much a ponzi/pyramid scheme as Tether is.
As for why they're doing this, i'll stick with my best guess: Justin Sun is a MASSIVE liability which'll blow up one of these days and the TRON blockchain is just a public ledger of crime.
The cartel is getting ready to clean house. Hence Justin investing in Trump as a hail mary
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You know why the fucking Greek 10 year is trading 1.4% below the US 10 year? Why the market is *explicitly* saying the US is riskier to lend money to than Greece?
Greek debt-to-gdp in 2023 was *lower* than 2012. Italy is our worst basket case running 6% deficits - still lower.
The UK isn't even lower than 2020, and a full 20% higher than 2012. The United States managed to lower it by 3% vs 2020, but is worse off compared to 2012 at 22.7% higher debt to gdp. And it's higher.
Europe has known, and has experience with, Austerity. That's the difference.
#Bitcoin tagged a $94K handle because the cartel needed some USD. We're sorry for the inconvenience this caused (thanks for the $1B in liquidations though).
The peg was restored and we'll return you to your regular slumber forthwith.
USDT:USD on Kraken can only spike if somebody throws a bunch of dollars at it, which means somebody is buying Tethers with dollars en masse. Not the behavior of somebody trying to rapidly get out of crypto, it'd be the other way around.
And why not buy USDT with BTC directly?
Cause it's all a fraud anyway. Kraken's orderbook until a deep de-peg is only $7 million deep. And USDT/USD is tied for biggest volume on Kraken with BTC/USD. Which has $15M to clean out the book until $500 lower (can't check further). This is all very shallow.
#Tether's done $1.4B in 2 days at 0%, so Saylor had best hurry up if he wants to keep pace with their rate of printing. $3.5B just this week alone. Especially since Tether's still at a high premium so they'll print way more. Infact they're printing hundreds of millions right now.
Jesus christ, calm the fuck down. #Tether's premium's hit $1.0023 on CMC, a full 10x above the minimum arb. Highest price since March atleast (though it's down a bit since i started making the thread).
This happening while Binance does another $2B "chainswap" from TRON to ETH. To be fair, it was done a while after the runup started. Printer's started up on TRON again, including a Bitfinex TRON to ETH chainswap.
Obviously i trust these swaps as far as i can throw them, though i've got no idea what they mean.
If i were to speculate - maybe the cartel is using the Trump pump as cover to ditch Justin Sun. Obviously, Binance is too important to let fail. And Justin is a ticking time bomb.
I don't know who needs to hear this, but the vast majority of USDT holders+USDT on TRON are fake, and i'm tired of pretending they're not. Over the past year, accounts holding USDT on TRON have gone from 26 million to 43.6 million in straight linear fashion. 🧵
How come the transfer accounts and counts stay the same at the same time that number of accounts have nearly doubled; with only a 50% increase at best in transfer amounts?
See the thing that's bothering me is this bar, this bar right here officer👇
Usually, the straight crypto scams have got a large concentration on a few accounts. With Tether, Binance has that concentration as the largest holder, but...
BREAKING: Justin Sun steals another ~$60M from #HTX customers with Tether's direct help, and #Binance money laundering to try and hide it. I just happen to catch it pretty much live so it was fast to track. Observe. 🧵
$60M (rounded) freshly redeemed Tethers, because ETH's quiet so it's not a chainswap.
It's notable because it came *directly* from Binance. Which is a giant proof that says "NOT ALL redemptions come via Bitfinex".
Keep that in mind when looking at all treasury ins in 3 months:
Anyways, as always, we follow the money. I've gotten Tronscan to work reliably by limiting dates across which hot wallets scan, and with this being short term, it's real easy.
Lets see if we can find any large transfers in around/near the redemption shall we?