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Exchange Stablecoin Reserves Drop as Bitcoin Rallies Lose Momentum
Multi-billion-dollar outflows from major cryptocurrency exchange stablecoin balances have coincided with slowing trading volumes and weakened price momentum across digital assets.
Binance's stablecoin reserves have fallen to a one-year low of $41.6 billion after $6.3 billion departed the exchange since April, according to CryptoQuant data published by analyst Darkfost. The platform's ERC-20 stablecoin balance has dropped approximately $9 billion since peaking near $51 billion in late November 2025.
The contraction in exchange liquidity is widespread. Outflows since April have removed $2.5 billion in stablecoins from Coinbase Advanced, $2.4 billion from OKX, and $2.3 billion from Bybit, bringing total losses across the four platforms to roughly $13.5 billion. Across the wider market, USD Coin's supply declined from $78 billion to $72 billion over the period, while Tether remained steady around $183 billion.
The decline in exchange reserves has coincided with a loss of price momentum. Although Bitcoin rose from its August lows to $86,597 on September 22 before retreating to around $83,350, on-chain balances continued to shrink throughout the advance. Concurrently, daily Bitcoin trading volume fell from $38.6 billion in April to $28.2 billion in October.
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