Binance Temporarily Suspends ETH Token Withdrawals Amid ATH transactions for Binance Smart Chain(BSC)

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Binance Temporarily Suspends ETH Token Withdrawals Amid ATH transactions for Binance Smart Chain(BSC)

Binance has temporarily suspended Ethereum and ERC-20 withdrawals citing a network congestion issue behind the decision. Ethereum network has been reeling with scalability and rising gas fee issues despite its market price reaching new all-time-highs. The scalability issues have made most of the defi protocols nearly non-usable owing to the rising gas fee and network congestion.

Ethereum’s issues have worked in Binance’s favor as its native chain Binance Smart Chain (BSC) has become the primary choice of defi traders as well as spot traders to settle ERC-20 transactions. The soaring popularity of the Binance chain is taking away the market share of Ethereum as BSC recorded nearly 2x the volume of the ETH chain yesterday.

Binance Smart Chain’s popularity has also made many protocols to integrate BSC until the Ethereum network’s gas fee woes come down. The temporary restriction on ETH also called for the timing of the halt as the Ethereum network’s volume has been quite low over the past couple of days.

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Ethereum Proponents Compare Binance Move to Robinhood

Ryan Adams, a crypto analyst, and a big-time Ethereum proponent compared Binance’s move to that of Robinhood claiming Binance has intentionally halted the withdrawals to help Binance Smart Chain. 

While there is no proof at present to substantiate these claims as Binance has a stellar reputation and is known for maintaining a level of transparency with the customers. The surging volume on BSC along with several defi protocols looking to integrate BSC a network issue with the BSC chain would have been a more likely scenario. However, the exchange has now resumed the withdrawal services.

The rise in popularity of BSC hasn’t gone down well with ETH proponents who believe BSC is a centralized chain and thus there is no comparison of the two.

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Prashant Jha

An engineering graduate, Prashant focuses on UK and Indian markets. As a crypto-journalist, his interests lie in blockchain technology adoption across emerging economies.

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