TRON Tanks 8% as Binance US Delists TRX
TL;DR The world’s largest crypto exchange, Binance US, has announced that it will be delisting the Tron TRX token. The move comes after the SEC launched a lawsuit against Tron founder Justin Sun in March for unregistered securities offerings. TRX has slumped 8% since the announcement and is currently trading at $0.063.
The native token for the TRON network, TRX, has taken a beating on the news that Binance US will no longer support it.
On April 12, the world’s largest crypto exchange Binance announced that it will be delisting the Tron TRX token. TRX will only be delisted from its U.S. exchange, however, not Binance.com global.
Binance US stated that it had conducted a review which led to the decision to delist.
“When a digital asset no longer meets our high standards, or industry circumstances change, we conduct a more in-depth review of the affected asset and assess whether further action is necessary (i.e. delisting).”
The move comes after the Securities and Exchange Commission sued Tron founder Justin Sun in March for unregistered securities offerings
The company also stated that it would be delisting SPELL, the native token of the Abracadabra Money ecosystem.
Tron Founder Targeted
In a recent salvo in its ongoing war on crypto, the SEC targeted Tron founder Justin Sun. In addition to the Tron Foundation, the BitTorrent Foundation, and Rainberry Inc. were also included in the lawsuit.
Binance U.S. stated that it considers several factors as part of its review process. Among them, and likely to be the factor, behind the delisting was “Regulatory standing in the United States.”
It stated that deposits for TRX on Binance.US will be closed on April 17, 2023, at 19.00. PDT. Additionally, buy, sell, convert and OTC functionality will be removed one hour after deposits close, it added.
Furthermore, TRX staking will be disabled on April 13 and removed from the staking page the following day.
“We will continue to support TRC-20 USDT and USDC issued on the TRON network,” the firm stated.
TRX Price Slumps
The Tron native token has slumped 8% over the past couple of hours. TRX fell from an intraday high of $0.067 to bottom out at $0.063 around two hours ago.
At the time of publication, TRX had not recovered and was around the same level. Furthermore, TRX has fallen 72.5% from its January 2018 all-time high of $0.231.
Furthermore, the other delisted token, SPELL, has slumped 6% since the announcement. At the time of writing it was trading at $0.00076.