Binance made the biggest transfer of recent times with $ 2 billion Bitcoin. CEO CZ clarified the speculations made on Twitter about the transaction.
Whale watching bots detect 5 massive Binance transactions
Bitcoin set the transfer record throne with 127,351 BTC (approximately $2 billion) flowing from Binance to an anonymous wallet on November 28, 2022. On the same day, an Ethereum whale took second place with around 231,782 ETH (274 million). Hefty transactions from Binance have caused various speculations. The exchange then assured its users that all their funds were safe.
— Hiro |SXP BNB SOL (@B_Heero) November 28, 2022
Binance CEO fends off rumors on Twitter
Following the above transactions, at least two more whale transactions amounting to BUSD 200,000,000 took place on November 30. Binance CEO Changpeng “CZ” Zhao reports that transactions are part of audits as part of proof of reserve. CZ also urged not to get caught up in FUD.
This is part of the Proof-of-Reserve Audit. The auditor require us to send a specific amount to ourselves to show we control the wallet. And the rest goes to a Change Address, which is a new address. In this case, the Input tx is big, and so is the Change. Ignore FUD! https://t.co/36wUPphIZk pic.twitter.com/2NkH5L5J9j
— CZ 🔶 Binance (@cz_binance) November 28, 2022
Other transactions from Binance that followed Bitcoin included $560 million, of which 231,736 ETH ($272 million) and 231,782 ETH ($274 million). Miners charged $1.32 and $2.51 for this transaction. In both transactions, the source and destination addresses remain mysterious. The crypto Twitter community speculated that the first transaction could involve Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin. Earlier this year, Buterin sold 3,000 ETH on Uniswap V3 shortly after FTX’s bankruptcy.
What fueled the speculation was that Buterin had removed 30,000 ETH from his own wallet in May 2022. This led to speculation that Ethereum would collapse later. However, it turned out that the funds transferred were reserved for charitable donations.
XRP transactions
The fifth transaction was the transfer of 500,000,000 XRP ($204 million) from an escrow wallet to an unknown address on December 1, 2022. In 2018, Ripple launched an initiative to release 1,000,000,000 XRP through an escrow at the beginning of each month to create a predictable supply of XRP.
Accordingly, 500,000,000 XRP transfers were followed by 400 million and 100 million token transfers to unlock 1,000,000,000 XRP for December 2022. In the past, Ripple held 800,000,000 XRP and chose to lock the remaining 200,000,000 XRP for a new release.
Here are the 5 hottest transactions of Binance wallets
The fifth transaction was 200 million BUSD flowing from Binance to an anonymous wallet on November 30, 2022. In this transaction, approximately $ 200,080,000 was transferred. The same amount of BUSD then flowed from an anonymous wallet to Binance. Shipping costs $3.31 and $1.27.
🚨 🚨 🚨 🚨 🚨 🚨 🚨 🚨 🚨 200,000,000 #BUSD (200,539,999 USD) transferred from unknown wallet to #Binancehttps://t.co/UBsXu9qsAw
— Whale Alert (@whale_alert) November 30, 2022
Second transaction involving 200,080,000 BUSD:
🚨 🚨 🚨 🚨 🚨 🚨 🚨 🚨 🚨 200,000,000 #BUSD (200,080,000 USD) transferred from #Binance to unknown wallethttps://t.co/bktCDcgywE
— Whale Alert (@whale_alert) November 30, 2022
The fourth transaction was carrying 500,000,000 XRP worth $204,402,898. On December 1, 2022, an anonymous wallet withdrew XRP from escrow. Shipping cost is unknown.
🔓 🔓 🔓 🔓 🔓 🔓 🔓 🔓 🔓 🔓 500,000,000 #XRP (204,402,898 USD) unlocked from escrow at unknown wallethttps://t.co/WO3aLogN0f
— Whale Alert (@whale_alert) December 1, 2022
The third transaction was 231,736 ETH worth $271 million. This transaction took place between anonymous wallets on November 28, 2022. The transaction cost was $1.32.
🚨 🚨 🚨 🚨 🚨 🚨 🚨 🚨 🚨 🚨 231,736 #ETH (271,829,771 USD) transferred from unknown wallet to unknown wallethttps://t.co/7niGIzRaBC
— Whale Alert (@whale_alert) November 28, 2022
Another transaction on November 28 contained 231,782 ETH worth $274,046,462. The transfer fee was $2.51.
🚨 🚨 🚨 🚨 🚨 🚨 🚨 🚨 🚨 🚨 231,782 #ETH (274,046,462 USD) transferred from unknown wallet to unknown wallethttps://t.co/vbUxjvbHz0
— Whale Alert (@whale_alert) November 28, 2022
Finally, another transaction on November 28 was the transfer of 127,351 BTC worth $2.06 billion. This funds flowed from Binance to an anonymous wallet, then to another new Binance address. The shipping cost, meanwhile, was $0.42.
🚨 🚨 🚨 🚨 🚨 🚨 🚨 🚨 🚨 🚨 127,351 #BTC (2,062,504,721 USD) transferred from #Binance to unknown wallethttps://t.co/zNYPuJuoRe
— Whale Alert (@whale_alert) November 28, 2022
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