Binance to Drop USDC Trading Pairs, Plans to Auto-Convert Specific Stablecoin...

Binance to Drop USDC Trading Pairs, Plans to Auto-Convert Specific Stablecoin...

The world’s largest cryptocurrency trading platform by trade volume, Binance, issued a notice on Monday explaining that the exchange will be removing the stablecoin USDC from the platform’s spot trading pairs list. Binance further details that users holding three types of stablecoins will see their balances auto-converted into BUSD if the user does not remove the specific crypto asset from the exchange. Binance to Delist Specific Stablecoin Trading Pairs by the End of September It seems Binance will be removing the world’s second-largest stablecoin usd....


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