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Binance.US, Binance’s trading platform for its customers in the U.S., announced on Monday (23 September 2019) that it has started taking deposits for Stellar (XLM), Cardano (ADA), Ethereum Classic (ETC, Basic Attention Token (BAT), and 0x (ZRX).

Binance.US uses the same software as Binance.com, but is operated independently via a separate FinCEN-registered U.S. firm called BAM trading Services.

Around 13:07 UTC on September 23, Binance.US announced that it would enable trading in Bitcoin (BTC), Ether (ETH), XRP, Bitcoin Cash (BCH), Litecoin (LTC), Tether (USDT), and Binance Coin (BNB) — via 13 trading pairs — at 09:00 EST (i.e. 13:00 UTC) on Tuesday, 24 September 2019.

These trading pairs are: 

  • USD-Based Pairs: BTC/USD, ETH/USD, XRP/USD, BCH/USD, LTC/USD, BNB/USD and USDT/USD
  • USDT-Based Pairs: BTC/USDT, ETH/USDT, XRP/USDT, BCH/USDT, LTC/USDT and BNB/USDT

Approximately, 22 minutes later, Binance.US made a further important announcement: it is adding support for five more digital assets.

Trading in Stellar (XLM), Cardano (ADA), Ethereum Classic (ETC, Basic Attention Token (BAT), and 0x (ZRX) will be enabled via 10 trading pairs at 09:00 EST (or 13:00 UTC) on 25 September 2019:

  • USD-Based Pairs: ADA/USD, BAT/USD, ETC/USD, XLM/USD and ZRX/USD.
  • USDT-Based Pairs: ADA/USDT, BAT/USDT, ETC/USDT, XLM/USDT and ZRX/USDT.

For personal accounts, there is a flat fee of 0.1% per trade, but there is currently a special offer: until 1 November 2018, there are zero trading fees. As for corporate accounts, the fee will depending on their trading volume.

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