On March 7, the Binance Bitcoin Exchange, leading in terms of trading volumes, was transferred to 333,539,853 IOST ($ 2.666 million). Soon after, IOST / BNB and IOST / USDT trading pairs appeared on the platform.

338,539,853 #IOST (2,666,162 USD) transferred from Unknown wallet to #Binance

Tx: https://t.co/7lp3zQpplr

– Whale Alert (@whale_alert) March 7, 2019

#Binance Adds $ IOST / $ BNB and $ IOST / $ USDT Trading Pairs https://t.co/Fjpo4RCC8k pic.twitter.com/rOiZQc7WDu

– Binance (@binance) March 21, 2019

Against the background of the listing, the price of the asset rose by more than 15% when compared with the quotes on the day of the transfer.

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Note that two days before the listing, the exchange also announced the distribution of tokens 10,000 BNB to those traders who will conduct the largest number of purchase / sale transactions from IOST until March 28.

$ IOST Trading Competition – $ 10,000 BNB to Give Away! https://t.co/isYeAQOiJG pic.twitter.com/UD6pUrMETi

– Binance (@binance) March 20, 2019

Thus, if on March 7 the daily trading volume did not exceed $ 13 million, and in the following days it fell to $ 4– $ 6 million, then on March 20 the figure reached $ 30.6 million. On the day of listing, the volume amounted to $ 60.7 million.

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Earlier, three similar transfers were noted at Binance, followed by an increase in the price of assets after listing pairs with BNB and USDT. The first to notice such a dynamic was the operator of the Youtube-channel “ Kopeechka in the wallet ”.

On the Bitcoin market Binance recorded anomalous transactions before listing shopping pairs https://t.co/XxI3qXEo0g #Binance # Exchange

– BlockchainJournal (@BlockchainJournal) March 9, 2019

Last time, representatives of the exchange refused to comment on the situation.

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