41,700 BTC Leave Binance: Reserve at 663,100

Bitcoin holdings on Binance have shrunk markedly in a little over two weeks. According to data from the analytics firm CryptoQuant, cited by several market reports, the trading platform's reserve stood at around 704,800 BTC on September 20 and at only around 663,100 BTC on October 5, 2026. That is 41,700 bitcoin less, a decline of 5.9 percent of the stock held there.

The price did not absorb it. Bitcoin is quoted at around $83,400, or roughly €74,500, on October 7, 2026, and is therefore 2.5 percent below the previous day's level (price data: CoinGecko). A falling exchange balance and a falling price on the same day look like a contradiction. They are not, and the reason matters more for your own planning than the headline does.

This article sets out what an exchange reserve actually measures, which figures are documented, why this Wednesday's liquidation wave has a cause of its own, and which questions genuinely follow from it for investors in Germany.

Exchange Reserve Explained: What a Trading Platform's Bitcoin Balance Tells You

The exchange reserve is the sum of all bitcoin sitting in a trading platform's known addresses. That balance is not reported by the company but reconstructed from the blockchain by analytics firms: whoever can attribute addresses to an exchange can count its holdings. CryptoQuant is one of these providers.