A massive 109,234 BTC was moved between Binance cold wallets this morning.

At the current price that represented a movement of more than $600m in value for a fee of only $7.19 cents.

Since the move, an additional 30,000 BTC moved out of the Binance wallet in smaller batches. Their cold wallet has a remaining balance of around 20,000 BTC.

Binance CEO Changpeng ‘CZ’ Zhao eased fears by announcing that the exchange would be moving funds between cold wallets, insisting that there was ‘no need to be alarmed’.

We will be moving some funds between our cold wallets. A tell tale sign of a new cold wallet on Binance is two small transfers from and BACK TO an existing wallet, then a large transaction. No need to be alarmed. Funds are #SAFU. — CZ Binance (@cz_binance) October 20, 2018

Binance trading volumes have also seen a significant uptick over the last week. Daily trading volumes have risen from a low of $500 million a day to the present level of close to $1.5 billion traded in the last 24 hours.

Move away from Tether

Tether collapsed in price last night, and was down to 97 cents. This was after a brief rally during the initial dump where Tether lifted over one dollar to $1.036.

With the recent announcement of Binance listing Circle-backed stable coin USDC could we finally start to see a competitor emerge to challenge Tether’s grip on the stable coin market.

Tether is currently trading close to three times its total market cap in daily trading volume. This is a stark difference to the USDC that traded less than one per cent of its 137 million market cap in the same period.