Binance Curb on Zero-Fee Trading May Cost Market Share, Boost TrueUSD Stablecoin: Kaiko Research Head
The BTC-TUSD trading volume had recently grown tenfold compared to Tuesday, Dustin Teander, an analyst at crypto research firm Messari, said in an email. However, the asset pair’s $50 million spot trading volume in the past 24 hours is dwarfed by the dominant stablecoin USDT’s $6 billion and BUSD’s $1 billion volume, he added.
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