Binance shares wallet addresses and activity after proof of reserve pledge

In airy of the FTX liquidity situation and the almost-acquisition by Binance, Binance CEO Changpeng “CZ” Zhao assured his assemblage that his web would supply afloat transparency connected plus holdings.

On Nov. 10, Binance published a new page titled “Proof of Assets” connected which each details are disposable of its on-chain enactment for its blistery and acold wallet addresses. This comes lone 2 days aft the archetypal tweet from CZ connected Nov. 8, successful which he pledged to make a impervious of reserve mechanism to guarantee “full transparency” to the community.

Binance released an authoritative connection connected the caller page, successful which the institution said this is the adjacent clip successful its “commitment to transparency and fostering spot successful the ecosystem” but besides that it is lone a starting point.

The last extremity is to make a Merkle Tree impervious of funds, which volition beryllium shared with the assemblage successful the pursuing weeks, according to the exchange.

“Our nonsubjective is to let users of our level to beryllium alert and marque informed decisions that are aligned with their fiscal goals."

The announcement besides included a snapshot of blistery and acold wallet addresses astatine approx. Nov.10, 2022, astatine 12:00 americium UTC.

— Binance (@binance) November 10, 2022

Additionally, the announcement reiterated that the company’s Secure Asset Fund for Users (SAFU) has been topped astatine $1 billion. The initial connection came successful a tweet from CZ connected Nov. 9. And was said to beryllium done “in airy of caller terms fluctuations."

Users connected societal media responded to the publicized numbers, with Reddit users worrying astir not seeing Monero (XMR) listed connected the caller impervious of assets leafage yet inactive being disposable for acquisition done the exchange.

Many users crossed platforms including Twitter and Reddit person said this is simply a bully commencement but we’ll request reliability tests.

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As the marketplace fumbles successful effect to the FTX - Binance incident, different crypto platforms person voiced their enactment of impervious of reserve mechanics for their ain communities.

In a tweet connected Nov. 10, Crypto.com CEO Kris Marszalek said helium believes that it should beryllium indispensable for crypto platforms to publically stock their impervious of reserves. Moreover, Marszalek said the level volition beryllium publishing its audited impervious of reserves successful the upcoming future.

Additionally some OKX and Kucoin released statements connected Twitter successful which the platforms besides committed to publicizing impervious of reserves successful the coming months.