FUD. 1 Contracts are added to the API ahead of time, Anyone can see it. 2 These are top 10 crypto traded on many exchanges, with high liquidity.
— CZ Binance (@cz_binance) January 8, 2020
Addressing this once and for all, @Binance Futures will add most of the top 20 crypto soon. Go trade now!https://t.co/x4XCTlMmTB
Binance Futures: XRP Pump and Dump
On the announcement of the futures on January 6, XRP managed to reverse its bearish momentum and experienced rapid gains. These gains began a few hours before the official announcement was made, which Zhao claims were due to API. More so, just an hour after the XRP announcement, the order books were stacked with $400 million on both sides. The rise was, however, short-lived — as XRP’s price came quickly crashing down again against Bitcoin.Zhao still maintains that there was no suspicious price action related to the XRP announcement and explained that such movement should be expected as XRP is a top 10 cryptocurrency that is traded on multiple exchanges with high liquidity. Nevertheless, this is not the first time we have seen suspicious price action with XRP.this chart feels like all of blockhead's tweets$XRP pic.twitter.com/SrSARwOkwT
— Josh McGruff (@JoshMcGruff) January 7, 2020
Little Action for Litecoin
Since the XRP announcement, two more coins have joined the ranks on the Binance Futures platform: EOS and Litecoin. However, both these coins show very different charts to that of the XRP. Litecoin, the most recently announced coin, has been showing steady growth over the last seven days, with a significantly smaller spike in price preceding the Binance announcement. The same can be said for EOS (orange). The lack of any strange pump on EOS and Litecoin preceding and following the announcements on the Binance futures platform is starkly contrasted with the action seen on the XRP charts. The issue of the XRP’s price rising before the announcement was made official could be explained by a number of other factors — but the fact that the price suddenly dumped soon after does raise more suspicions about price manipulation. Interestingly, in the Litecoin announcement, Binance stated: “To prevent market manipulation, Binance will implement a pricing limit of ±1% on the mark price within the first 15 minutes after trading starts.”Trusted
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