The fact that endorsement news of TrueUSD (TUSD), a dollar-pegged stablecoin, is causing a negative effect when it is trading at a disadvantage to Tether (USDT) on Binance.US, the Binance exchange’s US subsidiary. The TUSD/USDT pair was trading at 90 cents on Binance.US at press time, having touched a low of 80 cents on Wednesday, according to data from TradingView. The pair was trading at approximately $0.9985 on Binance. According to CoinDesk, The Network Firm, previously known as Armanino and working with former CEO Sam Bankman-Fried for FTX US.
Armanino, an accounting company, said in December of last year that it was discontinuing its crypto audit business and leaving customers. Other industry customers thought that Armanino’s reputation risk would cast doubt on its audit findings, putting Armanino under pressure. Armanino also serves as an accounting company for cryptocurrency exchanges, including Gate, OKX, and Kraken. According to reports, the audit company started providing assistance to the crypto company in 2014, offering proof of reserve audits and proof of stablecoins. After the FTX affair, US investors sued Prager Metis and Armanino, FTX’s auditing company, accusing them of extortion conspiracy.