Main cryptocurrency trade Binance has launched peer-to-peer (P2P) buying and selling for the Vietnamese dong (VND).Vietnam-based Binance customers
Main cryptocurrency trade Binance has launched peer-to-peer (P2P) buying and selling for the Vietnamese dong (VND).
Vietnam-based Binance customers can now instantly buy and promote main cryptocurrencies utilizing VND via the most recent variations of the Binance P2P cellular app on iOS and Android.
The 4 supported cryptocurrencies embrace Bitcoin (BTC), Ether (ETH), main stablecoin Tether (USDT) in addition to Binance’s native cryptocurrency Binance Coin (BNB), the agency stated in a press launch shared with Cointelegraph on Jan. 20.
Vietnamese dong is the second fiat foreign money on Binance’s P2P
Whereas Binance has been actively rolling out a number of international fiat onramps for currencies like Indian rupees and Turkish lira, the Vietnamese dong is the second fiat foreign money added on Binance’s P2P buying and selling platform after Chinese language yuan (CNY). Binance debuted its P2P buying and selling with yuan in October 2019, making China the world’s first jurisdiction to learn from Binance’s peer-to-peer buying and selling for Bitcoin, Ether and USDT in opposition to its fiat foreign money.
As Binance P2P is offered solely in China and Vietnam up to now, the service can be regularly expanded so as to add extra nations over the course of 2020, the press launch notes. Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao stated within the press launch:
“Binance is dedicated to offering our international customers with extra handy fiat gateways and quick access to cryptocurrency, and our P2P service goals to decrease the boundaries to entry to the crypto world. We’re happy to introduce fiat-to-crypto P2P buying and selling companies to Vietnamese customers to flexibly commerce cryptocurrency at low prices.”
Moreover, Zhao reiterated Binance’s formidable plans to broaden fiat-to-crypto entry on Binance for customers in over 180 nations as a way to obtain their mission of “freedom of cash.”
Why the P2P buying and selling service is necessary
As reported by Cointelegraph, the thought of P2P cryptocurrency exchanges is offering direct buying and selling between members with out the necessity for a trusted third celebration to course of the trades. As such, P2P buying and selling is a crucial facet of decentralization and is often operated and maintained completely by software program.
P2P cryptocurrency buying and selling is especially significant in China as a result of nation’s laborious stance in direction of crypto, together with the ban on crypto-to-fiat buying and selling and preliminary coin choices within the nation again in 2017.
In the meantime, Vietnam remains to be engaged on cryptocurrency regulation. As of late March 2019, there was no authorized framework for cryptocurrencies in Vietnam, as Cointelegraph reported. Regardless of regulatory uncertainty, Vietnam’s regulators have beforehand taken a destructive stance to crypto by suspending the import of cryptocurrency mining {hardware} in addition to banning native firms from a number of crypto-related actions in July 2018.