If the $1M/day ETB-USDT estimate is even close, killing the Binance screen just pushes the order book into Telegram OTC desks, TeleBirr/CBirr handoffs, and TRON USDT float with worse spreads. Nigeria already ran this playbook in 2024: Binance removed the naira reference, but the parallel market kept repricing USD liquidity anyway. For regulators, that tradeoff is brutal: less visible P2P data, more opaque brokers, and the same dollar demand leaking out through stablecoins that already make up 43% of African crypto transfer volume.

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