2026년 2월 9일 · Unknown · financial · 출처 Yahoo Finance
Key Takeaways
Binance’s SAFU fund purchased $300 million in Bitcoin, increasing its total holdings to 10,455 BTC. The purchase is part of a planned $1 billion conversion of SAFU stablecoins to BTC over 30 days, with an $800 million rebalance safeguard. The move follows a sharp early-February Bitcoin selloff that highlighted exchange backstops and transparency concerns.
Binance added 4,225 Bitcoins to its Secure Asset Fund for Users (SAFU) on Monday, converting about $300 million in stablecoins and bringing the fund’s total to 10,455 BTC.
The conversion is part of Binance’s plan announced on Jan. 29 to turn $1 billion of SAFU reserves into BTC within 30 days, with a safeguard to rebalance the fund if its value drops below $800 million.
SAFU’s Role Tested Amid Bitcoin Price
A “user protection fund” is supposed to be there on the worst day, not the best day.
Shifting a large chunk of SAFU from stablecoins into BTC trades one risk for another: stablecoin and issuer risk versus Bitcoin price volatility.
That volatility has been on display. Bitcoin slid sharply in early February, with a one-day drop of about 12.6% to around $63,525 on Feb. 5 amid broader risk-off moves and forced liquidations.
CoinGlass data showing over $1 billion in leveraged liquidations during the selloff.
Against that backdrop, Binance’s SAFU buying program has looked like a scheduled source of demand.
It also raises an obvious “what if”: what happens if BTC falls fast enough to test Binance’s $800 million rebalance trigger?
Binance Continues To Stack BTC
On-chain watchers have been tracking SAFU-related inflows since the conversion plan went public.
Feb. 2: Binance shifted 1,315 BTC (~$100 million) into SAFU, described as an early tranche toward the $1 billion target. Feb. 4: Another 1,315 BTC buy/transfer brought the early total to roughly 2,630 BTC across two days. Feb. 6–7 window: Monitoring accounts flagged an additional 3,600 BTC (~$233 million) SAFU accumulation, pushing tracked holdings to 6,230 BTC before today’s larger update. Feb. 9: The latest 4,225 BTC addition takes the running total to 10,455 BTC.
What SAFU Is, In Plain Terms
SAFU is Binance’s emergency reserve that is meant to protect users in “extreme situations.”
Binance says it launched the fund in July 2018 and funded it using a portion of trading fees, with the fund maintaining around $1 billion in value (with the composition adjustable over time).
That “composition adjustable” clause matters here. A SAFU that holds more BTC will generally become more correlated to the broader crypto market, including during drawdowns, even if Binance pledges to top it up.
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Why “Safety Reserves” Are Shifting Now
Binance’s SAFU move isn’t just a whale-sized buy. It’s part of a post-2022 trend: exchanges are now competing on visible safety measures, especially when markets get volatile.
These measures often include user protection funds.
Bitget, for example, publishes monthly Protection Fund reports—derivatives insurance funds, and auto-deleveraging rules.
Bybit documents ADL as a stress mechanism.
After the FTX collapse, more platforms started publishing cryptographic attestations.
Kraken and OKX release Proof of Reserves (PoR) reports and reserve ratios.
Binance has also been highlighting its PoR system, which uses Merkle trees and zk-SNARKs, letting users verify their inclusion without exposing balances publicly.
What To Watch Next
Two near-term signals matter more than the headline number.
First is the pace of further conversions toward the $1 billion target within the 30-day window.
Second is whether BTC volatility forces Binance to demonstrate the $800 million rebalance policy in real time, turning a promise into a visible, auditable action.
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