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Helen Partz14 hours agoBinance tight-lipped on projects funded by $1B crypto recovery fundBinance-initiated IRI fund has only spent some 2.7% of the total of $1.1 billion committed to saving crypto after the FTX collapse and has still not explained which entities benefited.1650 Total views22 Total sharesListen to article 0:00NewsJoin us on social networksBinance-spearheaded Industry Recovery Initiative (IRI), a co-investment project aiming to support the cryptocurrency industry in the aftermath of the FTX collapse, may not have been as effective as desired, a new report suggests.


After announcing the IRI in November 2022, Binance spent $15 million in its Binance USD (BUSD) stablecoins out of its total commitments of $1 billion in BUSD, Bloomberg reported on Oct. 10.


Binance subsequently moved the remaining $985 million of the pledged BUSD back to its corporate treasury, planning to use it for investments. In March, Binance converted these funds from BUSD to cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin (BTC), citing growing regulatory concerns around stablecoins.


Apart from Binance, the IRI had collected an additional $100 million in contributions from 18 organizations by the end of February 2023, including Animoca Brands, Aptos Labs, Jump Crypto, Polygon Ventures and others.


Three months after launch, the IRI funded 14 projects, Binance claimed, without disclosing the names of the companies that received funding. The only publicly declared expense from Binance’s $1 billion IRI commitment was the exchange’s acquisition of the South Korean crypto exchange Gopax, announced in early February.


According to wallet data collected by Bloomberg, the IRI has invested less than $30 million since its inception last year. Among nine named participants, only DWF Labs and Binance-backed Aptos had spent at least some of the committed funds.


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It’s unclear whether the IRI is still working to support cryptocurrency projects, as its Google Docs applicant form is still active.


Binance did not immediately respond to Cointelegraph’s request for comment.Transactions associated with Binance-spearheaded Industry Recovery Initiative as of Oct. 9, 2023. Source: Bloomberg


The IRI’s high capital commitments versus its actual contributions come as the cryptocurrency industry scrambles for funding.


The quarterly amount of cryptocurrency-related venture funding has plummeted as much as 70% from Q3 2022, the blockchain analytics firm Messari reported on Oct. 5. According to the report, crypto VC volumes in Q3 2023 amounted to just around $2 billion, down from the all-time high $17 billion in Q1 2021.


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