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The head of the cryptocurrency exchange Binance, Changpeng Zhao, is in the latest cryptocurrency news following a recent statement by the exchange. It seems like right now, Binance thinks that the funds are ‘not at risk’ after a reported technical error started affecting its withdrawals.

The CEO Changpeng Zhao (known as CZ) spoke about the entire situation and how it was resolved on August 23, while the funds security was not compromised. He wrote on Twitter stating that “Funds are #safu” employing a well-known catchphrase that he had previously created while confirming that there was no danger to the cryptocurrency holdings.

https://twitter.com/cz_binance/status/1164772701589737472?s=20

Featured in the coming altcoin news, CZ explained that Binance thinks funds are safe right now. He centered on Amazon Web Services (AWS) too, stating that the problems with caching were what produced the error messages for a portion of the Binance traders. The withdrawals were also impacted as he noted.

“AWS is having an issue, mostly with caching services, affecting some users globally. We are working with them and monitoring the situation closely,” CZ wrote, adding:

“It’s causing some 500 error messages on APIs and affecting some withdrawal processing.”

Binance thinks funds are safe – but it just recovered from a publicity scarce which involved a self-proclaimed hacker alleging that he had access to the users Know Your Customer (KYC) data. The alleged data leak made Binance very insecure and many best cryptocurrency news sites also talked about the previous hack which was funds worth $41 million leaving the platform due to a security issue.

All of this sparked a weeklong maintenance shutdown and payouts to the affected users. However, Binance thinks that it is in a good place now – right after it announced that it is working on a new cryptocurrency project named Venus. As the altcoin news showed, Venus is going to rival Facebook and its controversial Libra coin.

Meanwhile, the market has stabilized from the yesterday drop and is at a combined total value of $265 billion at press time. Bitcoin is trading at $10,160 and most of the altcoins are recording gains of 1% to 2%. Bitcoin’s dominance is still strong, standing at 68.4%.