Binance Just Burned $24 Million Worth Of BNB Coins

The leadership of Binance is apparently pushing towards bringing value to their users. This week, the cryptocurrency exchange based in Malta completed its eighth quarterly token burn where more than 809,000 BNB tokens were burned. The sum that Binance just burned was worth approximately $24 million USD at the time of the bum.

The company is all over the altcoin news for the latest token burn – which was the first towards its new goal of burning 100 million BNB tokens. As they revealed in an official post:

“Starting with this burn, Binance will relinquish the BNB tokens allocated to the Binance team and contribute this BNB towards our commitment to burning a total of 100 million BNB. The Binance team tokens equate to 40% of the total BNB supply (80,000,000 BNB, currently worth about US$2,400,000,000).”

The idea, as the exchange noted, is to use deflationary pressure to make BNB tokens worth more in the long run. The fact that Binance just burned BNB coins is very familiar in the crypto space.

In fact, many best cryptocurrency news sites reported that this large token burn comes after the exchange had the best two-month stretch in its fledgling history. From May to June 2019. Binance managed to facilitate around $125 billion which is the largest reported transaction volume that the platform has had in any period to date.

Whether the company can maintain such prolific volume as it phases out the American users from Binance.com remains to be seen. However, Binance US is coming and the fact that Binance just burned BNB coins shows that the exchange has various ways its fighting to maintain its dominance in the crypto economy.

Aside from the fact that Binance just burned $24 million worth of BNB coins, it also unveiled its new margin trading service. Unfurled alongside the platform’s main exchange service, the margin trading is backed by a new advanced trading engine that is designed for “better order matching and press indexes for margin level calculations to enable lower liquidations,” as the company revealed in a July 11th press release.

“This is another step in providing an inclusive cryptocurrency trading platform catering to the needs of both advanced institutional traders and retail traders under the same roof. We are providing a new tool in the financial services and cryptocurrency markets to help amplify trading results of successful trades,” the co-founder of Binance Changpeng Zhao said in the coming altcoin news.