Trending Topic: Binance Removes BUSD From SAFU Fund And Adopts TUSD And USDT As Replacement

Cryptocurrency exchange Binance has replaced its Binance USD (BUSD) holdings in its Secure Asset Fund for Users (SAFU) with TrueUSD (TUSD) and Tether (USDT) in response to Paxos' move to stop minting new BUSD. SAFU is an emergency insurance fund established by Binance to protect users' funds in case of security breaches or other unforeseen events.

Binance will replace BUSD in its Secure Asset Fund with USDT and TUSD.

Binance assured its users that this change will not impact them in any way, and that their funds will continue to be held in publicly verifiable addresses.

Binance – the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange – announced that it has converted the BUSD stablecoin it its SAFU fund. The Secure Asset Fund for Users (SAFU) was launched by the exchange back in 2018 as an emergency insurance fund in order to protect users.

Binance will no longer hold BUSD in its Secure Asset Fund for Users (SAFU) and has swapped the stablecoin for ERC-20 TUSD and BEP-20 USDT, according to a March 17 press release.

Binance News: Back on January 29, 2022, Binance unveiled the “Secure Asset Fund for Users (SAFU), which is an emergency insurance fund valued at $1 billion to safeguard its users from any catastrophic event. The SAFU fund wallets were initially stocked with BNB, BUSD, and BTC.

Binance moved BUSD from its SAFU insurance fund into USDT and TUSD since Paxos cannot mint new BUSD coins.