Galaxy’s Alex Thorn says Coinbase BTC discount versus Binance has widened to the largest level this year
Alex Thorn, head of research at Galaxy, said the adjusted discount for Bitcoin on Coinbase relative to Binance’s USDT market has widened to its biggest level of the year. He added that the spread has been harder to read as a clean signal of U.S. demand because Binance had previously paused withdrawals, which limited cross-platform arbitrage. With withdrawals now restored on Binance, the next point to watch is whether the price gap between the two exchanges begins to narrow. The comment focuses on exchange-level pricing rather than a broader market call, and centers on how temporary trading frictions can distort the interpretation of inter-exchange spreads.



