Binance Hegemony Rise and Fall: From BUSD's "Unified" Approach to $U's "Conquest" in the Stablecoin War
In the crypto world, what truly determines victory or defeat is never the code, but the game of liquidity, power, and regulation. The rise and fall of BUSD is not just a tragic story of a stablecoin, but a financial war over how exchanges attempt to "unify the world."
When BUSD was brought onto the stage of history, it carried not only a compliance narrative but also Binance's ambition to reshape the stablecoin order through heavy-handed tactics—by enforcing exchange rates and merging trading pairs, directly swallowing competitors' depth into its own ledger.
The 2022 "automatic conversion" was a textbook-level blitzkrieg; meanwhile, the regulatory iron fist on Valentine's Day 2023 caused this seemingly invincible empire to collapse in an instant. The twin BUSD, the shadow-like Binance-Peg, and the misalignment of regulatory boundaries together form its Achilles' heel.
But the story is not over yet.
From FDUSD