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Main TakeawaysDespite easing from their April peak, stablecoin/fiat pairs continue to dominate OTC flows, accounting for over 70% of April volume, sustaining the acceleration from 21% in January.BTC ETF inflows drove a sharp recovery, then reversed. Some $2.1B entered U.S. spot BTC ETFs between Apr 14and 24, pushing BTC to $77K. A $263M single-day outflow on April 27 indicated that many participants sold into the rally.OTC block execution delivered measurable alpha at scale. Our desk settled a $33.5M BTC/USDC order across three clips in under 20 minutes, achieving tighter pricing than a single orderbook execution would have allowed.Welcome to the fourth edition of the Binance OTC & Execution Services Monthly Digest. In this issue, we review April defined by a risk-on recovery, sustained Bitcoin ETF inflows, and a steady macro backdrop with major central banks holding interest rates. We examine what the abrupt late-month shift in ETF flows and persistently negative perpetual funding rates may signal about institutional conviction. Lastly, we highlight a $33.5M BTC/USDC institutional block trade, demonstrating how our desk splits large crypto orders into strategically sized clips to secure tighter pricing and achieve rapid settlement.April 2026 Crypto Market Analysis: BTC ETF Flows and Macro Backdrop+10.4%S&P 500 monthly gainBest since November 2020~$2.1BU.S. spot Bitcoin ETF inflows, Apr 14–24$263MSingle-day ETF outflow, Apr 27.Streak-ending reversal$77KBTC peak range reached during April recoveryRisk-On Recovery and S&P 500 MomentumRisk assets staged a material recovery in April. The S&P 500 rose 10.4%, its best monthly performance since November 2020 – a decisive risk-on signal that historically precedes Bitcoin appreciation with a lag.Central Bank Policy and Fed Leadership UncertaintyThe macro backdrop was broadly steady. The Bank of Japan, Bank of Canada, and Federal Reserve all held rates unchanged. Attention nonetheless turned to the upcoming Fed leadership transition, with Chair Powell's term expiring in mid-May. The succession introduces medium-term uncertainty around the monetary policy outlook for crypto and risk assets alike.U.S. Spot Bitcoin ETF Inflows and Late-Month Outflow SignalIn crypto, U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs recorded nine consecutive days of inflows totalling approximately $2.1B between April 14 and 24, helping drive BTC from the high $60,000s into the $77,000 range. The streak broke abruptly on April 27 with a $263M single-day outflow, led by FBTC ($150M), GBTC ($46.6M), and ARKB ($43.3M), indicating that many participants used the rally as an exit rather than a base for further accumulation.BTC Outlook: Range-Bound, Headline-SensitiveWith capital rotating toward large-cap U.S. technology on earnings and AI momentum, and against a backdrop of ongoing geopolitical risks including Strait of Hormuz tensions, U.S.–Iran negotiations, and persistently negative perpetual funding rates, the desk expects BTC to remain range-bound, choppy, and headline-sensitive. The underlying structure is not broken, but the lower channel boundary remains the key level to monitor. For additional market commentary, read our weekly updates on Binance Square.Institutional Crypto OTC Trading Flows: What We Saw in April 2026April OTC flows were dominated by stablecoin and fiat activity, continuing a sustained trend of institutional on-ramping observed in Q1 2026. Stablecoin and Fiat OTC VolumeStablecoin/fiat activity accounted for over 70% of April OTC volume. Activity was concentrated in USDT/USD, USDT/BHD, and USDT/MXN, which together made up the bulk of turnover, reflecting sustained client demand for efficient stablecoin-to-fiat conversion, particularly across emerging market corridors where our desk maintains deep liquidity.Crypto/Stablecoin and Altcoin ActivityCrypto/stablecoin flow accounted for 22.83% of April volume, pointing to continued portfolio rebalancing and selective rotation between volatile assets and stablecoin holdings. BTC dominated, with the remainder spread across majors including ADA, BNB, DOGE, ETH, and XRP, alongside sporadic activity in long-tail tokens such as DASH, ENJ, and XVG.Multi-Currency Fiat ExecutionSignificant volumes were executed across USD, BHD, MXN, KZT, EUR, COP, and ARS, reflecting the global reach and multi-currency execution capabilities of our desk.Bitcoin OTC Block Trade Execution: $33.5M BTC/USDC Case StudyA client approached the desk to acquire $33.5M of BTC using USDC in a single trade. Rather than executing the full size in one clip, which would have drawn a wider spread, our traders advised splitting the order into three strategically sized clips, sourcing tighter pricing from multiple liquidity providers simultaneously.Outcome: All three clips were fully settled in under 20 minutes, with materially improved pricing versus a single-clip execution – a clear illustration of how disciplined execution structure delivers better outcomes at institutional size.This trade is part of a broader pattern our desk has observed especially in 2026: clients increasingly using OTC channels for large Bitcoin accumulation, from the $100M+ family office BTC on-ramp to the bespoke USD-to-USDT execution at 0.5 bps, both facilitated in March. The common thread is the preference for private, high-touch execution over orderbook flow, where information leakage and slippage costs are higher.Binance OTC & Execution Services: Institutional Crypto Liquidity PlatformBinance OTC & Execution Services is a premier, one-stop solution for executing large or complex crypto trades with confidence and discretion. We support all assets listed on the Binance Spot market, including direct and cross pairs, covering over 445 crypto and fiat assets, one of the broadest OTC asset selections in the industry.Zero exchange fees with market-competitive spreadsDedicated traders delivering institutional-grade execution on every orderAccess to deep, multi-venue liquidity pools, the deepest in the industryFlexible settlement options and no upper size limits on trade ticketsClients who execute a minimum of $200,000 in OTC volume within any rolling 30-day period qualify for accelerated Binance VIP progression. Final ThoughtsApril confirmed that crypto tracks traditional risk assets higher when conditions align. Strong ETF inflows and a constructive macro backdrop provided the tailwind, yet the abrupt late-month reversal and persistently negative perpetual funding rates are a clear reminder that conviction among institutional participants remains fragile. BTC was range-bound and headline-sensitive heading into May, but the underlying structure remained intact.For the desk, April was defined by the breadth of flow: from emerging market fiat corridors and large-scale stablecoin movement to bespoke Bitcoin block trading at institutional size. That breadth, across asset class, geography, and trade type, is precisely what Binance OTC & Execution Services is built for.Contact Binance OTC & Execution ServicesBinance OTC & Execution Services is accessible via the Binance website. Contact the OTC Trading Desk at @Binance_OTC_Desk on Telegram or email trading@binance.com to get started.For bespoke execution support or to discuss the themes covered in this digest, contact your account manager or reach out to the OTC desk directly.Further ReadingBinance OTC Monthly Insights - April 2026Binance OTC & Execution Services Explained: How to Execute Large, Institutional-Level TradesHow to On/Off-Ramp Stablecoins Using Binance OTC & Execution ServicesIntroducing Binance Indication of Interest (IOI) – the Essential Liquidity Discovery Tool for Institutional Crypto TradersDisclaimer: Digital asset prices can be volatile. The value of your investment may go down or up and you may not get back the amount invested. You are solely responsible for your investment decisions and Binance is not liable for any losses you may incur. Options trading, in particular, is subject to high market risk and price volatility. Past performance is not a reliable predictor of future performance. 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Main TakeawaysBitcoin Pizza Day celebrates the moment crypto proved its real-world utility, and sixteen years later, that progress is still unfolding.Lightning Network, Bitcoin’s payments-focused layer-2, surpassed $1.1 billion in estimated monthly transaction volume for the first time ever in November 2025, demonstrating that utility progresses without regard to price cycles..Today, the crypto payments ecosystem is vast and runs on a variety of rails, including wallet-based checkouts, merchant processors, QR payments, crypto-linked cards, and platforms like Binance Pay.On May 22, 2010, a Florida programmer named Laszlo Hanyecz paid 10,000 BTC for two Papa John's pizzas. The coins were worth about $41 that day. Today, that same stack of coins could buy you a private island.Laszlo’s aim was to run an experiment. He posted on the BitcoinTalk forum offering 10,000 BTC to anyone willing to order him pizza, and a user in England took the deal, placing the order remotely while waiting for the coins to clear. The whole exchange took days to complete.Could Bitcoin — a piece of cryptographic software running on a small global network of computers — actually buy something physical? Laszlo wanted to know – and sixteen years later, the answer to his question is a resounding “yes,” and a massive payments ecosystem that includes Lightning, stablecoins, crypto-linked cards, and platforms like Binance Pay, processing billions of dollars every month.The Thesis Behind the PunchlinePizza Day gets retold every May as the story of the most expensive meal ever, which is partly true, but only scratches the surface of its significance in the history books. Laszlo’s 10,000 BTC transaction proved that Bitcoin could leave the screen and buy two pies worth of cheesy goodness. People nowadays are buying a whole lot more than just pizza with their bitcoin. Per a recent report from Bitcoin financial services firm River, the Lightning Network — a layer-2 protocol built to move bitcoin quickly and cheaply — surpassed $1 billion in estimated monthly transaction volume in November 2025. River counted roughly $1.1 billion across 5.2 million transactions in that single month.As the authors of the report put it: "Lightning adoption happened despite the price declining all of November and generally not doing much in 2025. The adoption was largely driven by exchanges, as well as a growing number of businesses accepting bitcoin payments." This reinforces the idea that practical use cases continue to push the network forward, and that utility can grow independently of price momentum.Crypto Payments Through the Years2010 – Bitcoin Buys a Physical Good for the First TimeIn May 2010, Laszlo Hanyecz exchanged 10,000 BTC for two pizzas, creating one of crypto’s first widely recognized real-world purchases. The transaction was informal, peer-to-peer, and built on trust between strangers, proving that bitcoin can be a medium exchange and store of value.2011 – Early Bitcoin Commerce Begins to EmergeIn the years after Pizza Day, bitcoin began moving beyond forums and experiments into small-scale commerce. Early adopters and crypto-native businesses started testing BTC as a payment method, helping establish the idea that digital assets could function as a medium of exchange.2014 – Major Merchants Begin Accepting BitcoinBy 2014, bitcoin payments were no longer limited to niche communities. Services like BitPay made merchant acceptance easier, while companies such as Microsoft and Overstock began accepting bitcoin payments, signaling early mainstream commercial interest.2015 – The Lightning Network Is ProposedIn 2015, Joseph Poon and Thaddeus Dryja published the Lightning Network white paper, outlining a layer-2 solution designed to make bitcoin payments faster, cheaper, and more scalable. It marked an important step toward making bitcoin more practical for everyday transactions.2018 – Lightning Goes LiveWhen the Lightning Network launched in 2018, it introduced a new way to move bitcoin with near-instant settlement and very low fees. This shifted bitcoin payments closer to real-world usability, especially for smaller and more frequent transactions.2020 – Bitcoin Payments Become More PracticalBy 2020, bitcoin payments had moved well beyond novelty. Merchant tools were more mature, payment infrastructure was improving, and Lightning transactions could settle in under a second with fees as low as around one satoshi, making crypto payments more usable in everyday contexts.2020–2024 – Stablecoins Expand Crypto’s Payments RoleAs crypto payments evolved, stablecoins emerged as another major payment rail. By reducing exposure to volatility while preserving the speed and programmability of blockchain-based transfers, stablecoins helped expand crypto’s use in digital payments, remittances, merchant settlement, and cross-border value transfer.2021 – Binance Pay Launches2021 marked several turning points. Binance Pay launched to support crypto payments across peer-to-peer transfers and merchant transactions. Its launch marked another step in the evolution of crypto payments from isolated use cases toward a broader consumer and merchant ecosystem. In September, El Salvador became the first country to use bitcoin as legal tender.2025 – Lightning Reaches Scale Beyond Price CyclesBitcoin’s payments utility continued to expand even in a relatively subdued market environment. The Lightning Network surpassed an estimated $1.1 billion in monthly transaction volume in November 2025 across roughly 5.2 million transactions, showing that adoption was being driven by real usage, including exchanges and businesses accepting bitcoin payments.2025–2026 – Crypto Payments Start Looking More Like Everyday PaymentsCrypto payments are increasingly being embedded into familiar payment experiences, from cards on traditional networks like Visa and Mastercard to app-based payments and merchant QR flows. One area gaining traction quickly is QR payments, already a common way to pay in many markets.2026 – A Broader Payments Ecosystem Takes ShapeWhat began as a peer-to-peer pizza purchase has evolved into a much broader payments ecosystem. Stablecoins, for example — not Bitcoin itself — now carry the majority of everyday payments volume.In 2025, stablecoins processed $33 trillion in adjusted on-chain volume, surpassing Visa’s $14 trillion in network settlement (Source: Binance Research, Artemis). By April 2026, stablecoins’ 30-day adjusted volume reached $7.6 trillion against Visa’s $1.3 trillion, roughly 6x Visa’s pace, on a single rolling-average snapshot.Binance Pay also sits at the consumer entry point of this ecosystem: $280 billion processed since 2021, 21 million merchants, and 98% of B2C transactions denominated in stablecoins. How Binance Pay Builds on the StoryIt would be tempting to read this timeline as “crypto payments are outgrowing Bitcoin.” But Binance Pay and stablecoins arguably only exist because Pizza Day worked. Laszlo's transaction established that “magic internet money” could be used in the real world. Then came the Lightning network, which solved the issue of speed, while stablecoins offered a “stable” option for daily spending.Binance Pay builds on Bitcoin’s progress by focusing on payment and merchant flexibility. With Binance Pay, users can spend with over 100 cryptocurrencies, including USDT, BTC, and BNB, at more than 21 million merchants globally. Supported merchants include major brands, travel and hospitality booking, gift cards, and everyday services. In addition to spending an asset directly, users can also use BTC yield earned from Binance savings products.Final ThoughtsPizza Day is a fun reminder that crypto’s utility goes far beyond speculation. The first BTC “purchase” was clunky and improvised, but it proved crypto could be used as a medium of exchange.Sixteen years later, everything has changed. Lightning continues to expand bitcoin payments, and everyday spending has broadened into multiple methods. Two cheese pizzas helped create an entire payments ecosystem used by millions of people worldwide.Further ReadingShare a Pizza, Share in BitcoinBitcoin Pizza Day: From Two Pies to Millions of Lives Across the GlobeBinance Online: What BlackRock, CZ, Chamath, Ripple, Solana, and Adam Back Said About Crypto in 2026

Main TakeawaysSixteen years after Bitcoin Pizza Day, crypto has become part of everyday life – from international travel and supporting family across borders to first homes and birthday celebrations in Bhutan.Six creators across four continents share the real moments that illustrate why crypto has become practical, personal, and global.Crypto's biggest growth story is happening in Medellín, Mumbai, São Paulo, and countless communities around the world.On May 22, 2010, Laszlo Hanyecz made history by spending 10,000 BTC on two pizzas. The transaction marked one of the first recorded real-world uses of Bitcoin as payment.Sixteen years later, the question is no longer whether crypto has utility. It’s how deeply it has become part of everyday life.Today, more than 560 million people around the world are estimated to own cryptocurrency – and some of the strongest adoption is happening across emerging markets. Since 2020, the share of Binance users from emerging markets has grown from 49% to 77%, with APAC, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Latin America leading that growth.What began as a niche internet movement now powers travel, savings, cross-border transfers, and everyday purchases globally.To understand what crypto adoption looks like in everyday life, we spoke with six creators across four continents about how they actually use crypto today.“My House, My Crypto”For Brazilian creator Valéria Garcia, crypto started with a simple moment of curiosity.“Years ago, I saw a website accepting Bitcoin as a form of payment and I got curious,” she says. “I had never heard of it before and wanted to understand what this Bitcoin thing was.”That curiosity gradually turned into regular use. Her first major crypto purchase was a ticket – and nearly all the expenses – for the Lollapalooza music festival. Today, she uses her Binance Card for everything: from bakery snacks to international travel expenses.But over time, crypto became tied to something much bigger than day-to-day spending.“I recently moved into my first home,” she says. “My husband and I built a wallet that we nicknamed ‘my house, my crypto.’ The apartment and a good part of everything inside it were bought with this wallet.”For Valeria, one of crypto’s biggest advantages today is the flexibility it brings while traveling internationally.“Crypto gives me peace of mind,” she explains. “I can travel anywhere and make payments without worrying about local currency or exchange rate limitations.”Dinner in Medellín, Money Across BordersAnthony Alvarez first entered crypto through trading in 2021. Today, the Colombian creator says it runs through almost every part of his financial life.His first real-world crypto purchase was dinner at a crypto-themed restaurant in Medellín. Now he regularly uses Binance Card and Binance Pay for shopping, travel, and international transactions.One particularly memorable moment came when he booked a trip to Dubai for Binance Blockchain Week using Binance Pay and USDT.“The process was fast, simple, and very convenient,” he says. “It showed me that paying with crypto can integrate perfectly with traditional services.”Crypto also changed how he supports his family across borders. Anthony lives in Colombia, while his mother is in Venezuela – a situation where traditional transfers can become slow and expensive.“When I need to send her money, I can do it through Binance Pay and she receives it almost instantly,” he explains. “For me, that’s something the traditional banking system still doesn’t solve in such a simple, fast, and accessible way.”No Different From a “Normal” CardCrypto entered African creator Bailey Georgiade’s life gradually.“A few years ago my husband suggested we get into crypto,” she says. “At first I didn’t really understand what crypto even was.”She began learning through Binance Academy and over time became more involved in the space. But the moment crypto truly started feeling tangible came through small, ordinary purchases – a coffee and a water tumbler purchased at a local shopping mall.“It actually felt surreal,” she says, “because crypto had always felt like something separate from everyday life.”More recently, she started using the Binance Card for regular spending – from groceries to online shopping and clothing.“Honestly, there was no difference between using my Binance Card and using my “normal” bank card,” she explains. “The process felt seamless and easy.”For Bailey, that growing simplicity is one of the biggest signs of how far crypto adoption has evolved in recent years.“Before, it felt very separate from normal spending and shopping,” she says. “Now it’s becoming something you can actually use practically, which makes the space feel a lot more real and relatable.”From Business Tool to Daily SpendingFor Martin Melendez in Mexico, crypto initially solved a practical business problem. He came to crypto looking for a simpler way to invoice international clients and receive payments across borders.That search led him to Binance – and eventually to one of his first real-world crypto purchases: a meal from El Pollo Loco, shortly after the Binance Card launched.Today, crypto has become deeply integrated into both his work and daily spending. Martin regularly uses the Binance Card for purchases tied to his creator business, including products and giveaways for his audience.“My cryptocurrencies are now real money,” he says. “It’s money I can use to pay for trips, hotels, and even advertising on Facebook and TikTok.”He believes this transition is becoming increasingly visible across Latin America, where digital dollars and blockchain-based payments are slowly becoming part of everyday financial life.“People are going to keep making normal payments using blockchain without even knowing they’re using blockchain,” he says.From a Lost Private Key to One Million PeoplePushpendra Singh’s first encounter with crypto came through freelance work.“I entered crypto when an international client transferred Bitcoin to me,” he says. “I made my first big mistake early – I lost my private key and everything with it.”Instead of leaving the space behind, he went deeper. Pushpendra started mining crypto at a time when almost no one in India was taking it seriously, eventually turning it into a career and a content platform. “Crypto didn't just give me a purpose – it changed my life,” he says. “It helped me build my career, personal brand, and a community of more than one million people.”Education also became a major part of his work, with much of his content focused on simplifying blockchain concepts for a broader audience.Today, crypto has become embedded into his financial routine, from subscriptions to online transactions and long-term investing.Looking back, he believes the digital asset ecosystem in India has matured significantly over the years.“Earlier, people focused mainly on quick profits,” he says. “Today, people are looking at blockchain and digital assets through a much broader lens – from long-term wealth creation and preservation to careers, entrepreneurship, and building in Web3.”For Pushpendra, that broader evolution can be summarized simply:“We’ve moved from curiosity to utility.”Bipin's Birthday, Paid in CryptoFor Indian creator Sujal Jethwani, digital assets first entered his life through a conversation with a friend and a sense of FOMO.“At that time I had no idea what blockchain was or what decentralization meant,” he recalls. “But the deeper I went, the more interested I became in the technology and the ideas behind it.”What followed was something much bigger than he initially expected: an entirely new career and community built around digital assets.His first real-world crypto purchase came in 2022 – jewelry for his mother, paid through a friend's crypto card at a store in Dubai.“Standing in a Dubai jewellery store, buying a gift for my mum – settled in crypto,” he says. “It felt surreal. Like the internet had just reached my wallet.”But the moment that stayed with him most happened years later in Bhutan during a Binance Pay partnership event. After learning that their driver, Bipin, was celebrating his birthday, Sujal and his group organized a surprise celebration and paid for the entire evening using Binance Pay.“Bipin’s birthday, paid in crypto, in the mountains of Bhutan,” he says. “That’s a sentence I genuinely didn’t think I’d ever say.”The experience also showed him how deeply crypto payments had become integrated locally.“I survived an entire week in Bhutan with no cash, no card – only Binance Pay,” he says. “From tea shops to hotels to remote mountain areas, it worked every single time.”For Sujal, that transformation captures how much crypto has evolved since the experimental Bitcoin Pizza Day era into practical, real-world utility.“Crypto has gone from an internet money experiment to real financial infrastructure,” he says. “The pizzas just got more expensive – in fiat prices, of course.”Crypto by the NumbersThese stories reflect a much broader global shift in how crypto is being used around the world.The same pattern appears in Binance’s global user base: the share of users from emerging markets has grown from 49% in 2020 to 77% in 2026.Regions like APAC, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Latin America continue to record some of the strongest growth globally. APAC recorded the highest year-over-year growth in Bitcoin holders at 31%, while Latin America followed closely at 29%.At the same time, crypto payments infrastructure continues to expand rapidly. Binance Pay now serves 48 million users globally and has processed more than US$280 billion in transaction volume since 2021, while more than 21 million merchants worldwide are now part of the Binance Pay ecosystem.And while Bitcoin Pizza Day began with a single BTC transaction, payments today increasingly happen across multiple digital assets. Stablecoins now account for 96% of all payment transactions on Binance Pay.Beyond PizzaIn 2010, two pizzas cost 10,000 BTC. Today, that same order would cost only a tiny fraction of a bitcoin.But Bitcoin Pizza Day was never really about the price. It was about proving that crypto could be used in the real world.Sixteen years later, the proof is everywhere. Around the world, people are using digital assets to support family across borders, build careers, buy first homes, and pay for birthday celebrations in the mountains of Bhutan.This Pizza Day, we want to hear your story. Snap a selfie with pizza and a splash of Binance yellow, share it on X with #BinancePizza, and you could win a share of $5,000 in BTC rewards. Share Your #BinancePizza MomentWant to go bigger? Team up with friends for a chance to share in a $1,000,000 USDC prize pool. Laszlo shared his pizza with the world – now it's your turn.Join the Pizza Day Team UpFurther ReadingBitcoin Pizza Day 2026: Share a Pizza, Share in BitcoinExpanding Access Where It Matters Most: Binance’s Approach to Driving a More Inclusive Financial FutureBrazilian Users Can Now Tap and Pay with Binance x Mastercard Crypto CardDisclaimer: The stories narrated are not intended to be and shall not be construed as an endorsement by Binance of such views or a guarantee of the reliability or accuracy of such content.Disclaimer: Digital asset prices are subject to high market risk and price volatility. The value of your investment may go down or up, and you may not get back the amount invested. You are solely responsible for your investment decisions and Binance is not liable for any losses you may incur. Past performance is not a reliable predictor of future performance. You should only invest in products you are familiar with and where you understand the risks. 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Main TakeawaysAs the tech sector and the wider job market undergo dramatic transformation amid accelerating AI adoption, Binance continues to expand its workforce while building an AI-competent organization.Across 2026, Binance has embedded a number of proprietary AI tools into internal workflows and delivered 28 AI organization-wide training sessions across 8 modules, achieving strong engagement.AI capability building is further reinforced through ongoing shared learning, with employees actively presenting real-world use cases and contributing to structured knowledge libraries that document applied AI across teams.While companies across the tech sector cut 52,050 jobs in Q1 2026 – a 40% increase year-over-year amid accelerating AI adoption – Binance continues to expand its workforce in certain areas, actively hiring across 380+ roles while building an AI-competent workforce.Some narratives frame AI as a substitute for human labor, but our approach is different. We see AI as a capability multiplier – one that helps teams operate more effectively and redirect focus toward the areas where human insight matters most.Human Intent Leads, AI ExecutesThe idea that AI should replace human talent overlooks where AI creates the most value. Across industries, the strongest gains from AI have come from augmentation, not substitution – particularly in roles where judgment, context, and accountability matter. In fact, studies from organizations like McKinsey Global Institute and Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development consistently show that AI delivers the greatest value when humans remain at the center of the workflow – guiding decisions, applying judgment, and shaping creative direction – while AI supports them by handling repetitive and rules-based tasks.True innovation emerges when AI absorbs the mechanical workload such as data processing, pattern detection, and routine execution – freeing people to focus on what machines cannot replicate: strategic thinking, creative problem-solving, and human judgment shaped by context and experience.Our philosophy for building an AI-competent company goes beyond simply deploying new tools. It centers on actively encouraging AI adoption across teams while continuing to invest in talent. This approach is also reflected in our hiring strategy, with 20% of our 2026 hires brought in specifically for AI tech and product development roles.Embracing AI Adoption, Building AI LiteracyTo date, we’ve already integrated proprietary tools like SAFUGPT, Hexa, and Clawbot into our internal systems for employees to use across daily workflows. Hexa is a no-code AI platform that allows teams to build scalable AI tools and assistants – such as internal knowledge chatbots or AI agents that automate operational reviews – without coding expertise, while Clawbot helps teams streamline repetitive workflows in day-to-day execution. In 2026 alone, we also rolled out eight different types of AI training spanning 28 sessions – with multiple session timings designed to accommodate our global workforce across time zones. These trainings are designed to build both foundational and advanced AI literacy, covering a broad range of AI tools and competencies. This includes two prompt engineering training tracks, four different Clawbot training programs spanning 16 sessions. Notably, the Clawbot training series achieved an 87% participation rate, reflecting strong employee enthusiasm toward embracing new skills and tools to become more AI-competent.In addition, we’ve been publishing weekly AI micro-learning pieces since last December. Each piece distills practical AI insights, tips, and knowledge into a format that can be read in under three minutes, making it easily accessible to all employees. To date, 22 editions have been released.Scaling AI Adoption Through Shared Use CasesWe believe capability building extends into applied learning, where employees translate concepts into real workflows and share outcomes across the company. This is reflected in how teams across the organization have actively experimented with AI and presented their successful use cases to inspire broader adoption, including 13 live Clawbot use case sharing sessions and 3 live Hexa use case roadshow sessions in 2026. These sessions showcase how different teams are applying AI in practical, impactful ways and learning from one another in real time.From Experimentation to a Shared PlaybookBuilding on this culture of shared learning, we have also developed structured knowledge libraries including Hexa and SAFUGPT use case catalog articles, documenting practical implementations of AI across different functions. These catalogs serve as living references for how AI is being embedded into day-to-day operations, helping teams replicate and scale successfully.Early Results, With More to ComeThese efforts are already translating into meaningful adoption across the organization. Clawbot has reached an internal adoption rate of approximately 72%, while Hexa has achieved around 57%, reflecting growing employee confidence in integrating AI into daily workflows. At the same time, we continue to expand our AI learning initiatives, with a fifth Clawbot training module and two additional Clawbot use case sharing sessions set to roll out next week.Scaling AI Responsibly, With Ethics at the CoreAs AI adoption accelerates, understanding AI ethics, governance, and responsible deployment has become increasingly important. Binance recently earned the ISO/IEC 42001 certification, an international standard for responsible AI governance. Through a Privacy by Design approach, Binance ensures data protection considerations remain central to AI deployment, while company-wide AI training, prompt engineering programs, and structured oversight practices help employees adopt AI ethically, responsibly, and with meaningful human oversight.Final ThoughtsWe believe that the future of crypto will not be defined by code alone, but by how effectively people and AI work together. As AI systems become more capable, human creativity, judgment, and accountability become even more critical in shaping how these tools are applied responsibly and effectively.That is why we continue to invest in both AI innovation and the people behind it – through ongoing employee training, AI enablement initiatives, and the expansion of our AI-empowered workforce. With around 380 open roles globally, we are actively seeking forward-thinking talent who can harness emerging technologies to help build the future of crypto with us.Further ReadingBinance Hot Takes and Hard Truths – Redefining Fairness at Work5 Reasons Not to Join BinanceAI Versus AI – How Binance Is Defending Users in the Age of Intelligent Fraud

Main TakeawaysReal float provides a clearer lens on token liquidity, helping distinguish between headline circulating supply and what is actually tradable in the market.When real float is low, price discovery, volatility, and valuation metrics like market cap and FDV can become distorted without full visibility into underlying supply dynamics.Therefore, combining real float analysis with tokenomics review, on-chain data, and unlock schedules enables a more complete and informed assessment of token launches and market behavior.Since the publication of the Binance Research report Low Float & High FDV: How Did We Get Here?, there has been continued observation in the community that some projects launch with relatively low real float. This is not necessarily negative in all cases, but low real float may contribute to inorganic price discovery, higher volatility, and potentially misleading market capitalization or fully diluted valuation (FDV) optics.This article will explain what real float means, why it matters, and how users and project teams can approach token launches with greater transparency and awareness.What Is Real Float?Real float refers to the portion of a token’s supply that is genuinely available for active trading in the open market.In traditional financial markets, this is similar to free float or public float, which excludes restricted shares, insider holdings, and strategic positions. In crypto markets, a similar distinction can exist between tokens counted as circulating supply and those actually available for trading.While reported circulating supply reflects what is nominally in circulation, real float reflects what is actually tradable. A wider gap between the two may lead to an overestimation of a token’s true liquidity.Real float is best understood as an estimate rather than a precise formula, and users may consider factors such as locked supply, vesting schedules, treasury or project-held tokens, staking participation, and holder concentration when assessing how much supply is genuinely available for active trading.In practice, observable market balances can also be used as a rough proxy:Estimated Real Float ≈ DEX Pool Balances + CEX BalancesThis is not a perfect measure, as exchange balances, liquidity pools, treasury wallets, staking contracts, and long-term holder behavior can all change over time. However, it can still help users better distinguish between headline circulating supply and the portion of supply that is actually available for active trading.Low real float can occur when:A large share of supply is held by insiders, foundations, treasury wallets, or long-term holdersA significant portion of liquid supply is tied up in liquidity provisioningStaking, vesting, ecosystem lockups, or airdrop schedules reduce freely tradable tokensLiquidity is concentrated in a small number of venues or poolsA few large holders control most of the available float and rarely tradeLow real float is not inherently negative. It can reflect early-stage token distribution, long-term alignment, staking participation, or treasury strategy. However, when combined with limited disclosure, concentrated holdings, high FDV, or large upcoming unlocks, it may become an important risk factor for users to consider.Implications of Low Real Float EnvironmentsTo make this more intuitive, consider a simplified illustrative scenario where early trading occurs on a thin real float. In such conditions, even modest buying pressure can push prices sharply higher, inflating implied market capitalization or fully diluted valuation (FDV). However, if broader demand does not materialize, or if subsequent token unlocks significantly increase circulating supply, prices may retrace as liquidity expands. Below, we’ll break down the implications of low float environments.Illustrative example: when real float is thin, early price action may be more volatile and less reflective of broad market demand, with potential retracement as supply expands.Inorganic Price DiscoveryFair price discovery depends on broad market participation, sufficient tradable supply, and transparent information.When only a small portion of supply is actively traded, prices may not fully reflect overall market demand. Instead, price formation can be driven by a small number of wallets, concentrated liquidity, selective liquidity provision, or listing-related dynamics.In a low-real-float environment, even modest buying activity can push prices significantly higher, which may in turn imply a much larger FDV without broad market validation.Higher VolatilityLow real float may also contribute to higher volatility. When tradable supply is limited, relatively small orders can have a disproportionate impact on price.This often leads to wider spreads, higher slippage, sharper price swings, and stronger reactions to news, sentiment, or unlock events. As a result, it becomes harder to distinguish between sustained demand and short-term liquidity-driven moves.Misleading Market Cap OpticsMarket capitalization and FDV are useful reference metrics, but they can become less informative when prices are formed on thin real float.For example, a small amount of buying may push the token price higher, which then inflates both market cap (based on circulating supply) and FDV (based on total supply). In such cases, headline valuations may overstate real capital inflow or market depth. Hence, market cap and FDV should be read alongside real float, liquidity depth, holder concentration, and upcoming unlock schedules.Unlock Overhang RiskWhen low real float is driven by locked supply, future unlocks become a key factor to monitor.Potential selling pressure may come from early investors, team allocations, treasury wallets, or emissions schedules. In some cases, even anticipated unlocks can affect market expectations before tokens enter circulation, especially when disclosure is limited or unclear.How Users Can Evaluate Low Real FloatUsers should avoid relying solely on headline market capitalization, FDV, or short-term price performance. A more complete evaluation can include:Reviewing the project’s tokenomics, allocation tables, vesting schedules, and unlock calendars.Comparing reported circulating supply with real float indicators, such as exchange balances, DEX pool balances, on-chain wallet distribution, and holder concentration.Assessing whether supply is concentrated in a small number of wallets, venues, or liquidity pools.Monitoring significant token inflows to exchanges, which may affect short-term liquidity and price dynamics.Using third-party data platforms to better understand wallet distribution, token flows, and concentration risks.Referring to project disclosures, whitepapers, Binance Research, DD Hub materials, and other publicly available information.As always, users should conduct their own research. Tokenomics can be complex, and no single metric can fully capture the quality or risk profile of a token launch.Suggestions for Project TeamsFor project teams, clearer disclosure can help market participants better understand a token’s underlying supply dynamics. Hence, projects should consider improving transparency around initial circulating supply, real float assumptions, allocations, vesting schedules, unlock timelines, treasury holdings, liquidity arrangements, staking participation, and airdrop structures.Transparency doesn’t mean every project should adopt the same float structure. Different projects may have different token designs depending on their stage of development, community structure, and ecosystem needs.However, when users can clearly distinguish between freely tradable supply and locked, staked, liquidity-bound, or reserved tokens, they are better equipped to assess valuation, liquidity, and potential future supply pressure – helping them make more informed decisions.Final ThoughtsReal float is an important factor in evaluating token launches and secondary market behavior.While low real float is not inherently negative, when it is combined with high FDV, limited disclosure, concentrated supply, or large future unlocks, it can weaken price discovery and increase market risk.Ultimately, more transparent tokenomics benefits both sides of the market. For users, understanding real float enables more informed decision-making, while for project teams, greater transparency and thoughtful float design can help build credibility, support sustainable price discovery, and contribute to healthier token markets.Further ReadingThree Ways to Streamline Real Trading Workflows With Binance AI ProThe Biggest Macro Trade of 2026 Is One You Can Access on BinanceIntegrating Finance, Social, and AI: How Binance is Leading Crypto’s WeChat Moment

Main TakeawaysIn celebration of the first real-world Bitcoin transaction on May 22, 2010, we’re calling on the community to share their #BinancePizza moments.Snap a selfie with pizza and something yellow or Binance-branded, post it on X with #BinancePizza, and tag @binance for a chance to share $5,000 in BTC rewards.Want a bigger bite? Team up with friends in the Team Up for BTC promotion and share in a 1,000,000 USDC prize pool.If there's one thing better than pizza, it's pizza shared with the Binance community. To celebrate Bitcoin Pizza Day, we're asking you to snap a selfie enjoying some pizza with a splash of Binance yellow in the frame.Share your #BinancePizza moment on X for a chance to share $5,000 in BTC rewards. And if you want to take things a step further, you can also team up with friends on Binance to share in a $1,000,000 USDC prize pool.The Story Behind Bitcoin Pizza DayFor people new to the story – and there should be many, given how fast crypto adoption spreads – Bitcoin Pizza Day is celebrated every year on May 22. It marks the first real-world Bitcoin transaction, when a Florida developer named Laszlo Hanyecz paid 10,000 BTC for two large pizzas on this day in 2010. He posted on the Bitcoin Talk forum asking if anyone would order pizza for him in exchange for Bitcoin, and two pies later, this transaction became the first recorded instance of BTC being exchanged for real-world goods. Those same 10,000 BTC would be worth a little over $800 million today. Laszlo proved a point about Bitcoin, but he also shared some pizza with the whole family, and that’s the part of the story we want to celebrate this year.So, in honor of Laszlo, we're asking you to share your own pizza moment for a chance to win Bitcoin rewards. Grab a slice and find some Binance yellow.Join Binance’s Pizza Day Campaign: Share Your #BinancePizza Moment in 3 Steps1. Take a selfieTake a selfie with a pizza and something yellow or Binance-branded in the shot. Get creative. The more original your picture, the better your chances of winning.2. Post it on XShare your selfie on X using the hashtag #BinancePizza and tag @binance.3. Fill out the surveyComplete the Binance survey so we can find your post and lock in your entry.The top 100 most creative pics will split $5,000 in BTC. Share Your #BinancePizza MomentTeam Up for BTC and Share 1,000,000 USDCThere's another way to celebrate Bitcoin Pizza Day with Binance, and this one comes with a 1,000,000 USDC prize pool. Gather your friends, form a team of 3, 5, or 10, and buy BTC together. Once everyone in your team locks in, you all share in a prize pool of 1,000,000 USDC.Assemble your own team or join one using a friend's invite link.Everyone deposits and locks 100 USDC* via the activity page to confirm their spot.Once the team fills up, your team’s USDC will automatically be converted into BTC at real-time market price through the Convert function.USDC rewards land in your Spot account within 48 hours.*Users must lock 100 USDC to confirm their spot on a team. Team members can quit anytime before the team expires (within 6 hours of formation). If a user leaves or the team fails to fill up in time, the locked funds will be automatically unlocked and returned to their account.The bigger the team, the greater the reward per person. New users who register with referral code PIZZADAY26 and convert BTC on their own (no team required) will also receive 3 USDC each.Rewards are first-come, first-served, and the promotion runs from May 12 to May 30, 2026 at 23:59 (UTC). Full details and reward breakdowns are available in the announcement.Join the Pizza Day Team UpFurther ReadingNot Just Pizza: Discovering The Real-World Power of Crypto, One Transaction at a TimeHow to Cash Out Your Bitcoin on BinanceThe Next Three Billion Users And The Widening Addressable Market for Digital Finance

Main TakeawaysBinance x402 enables HTTP-native payments on BNB Chain, making it easier to monetize APIs, tools, and digital services.It is built for agent-driven and software-native commerce, supporting off-chain authorization and on-chain settlement for automated, usage-based payments.By handling payment verification and settlement infrastructure, Binance x402 reduces integration complexity while expanding stablecoin utility on BNB Chain.As digital services become more automated, one major gap is becoming harder to ignore: the internet still lacks a simple, native way for APIs, tools, and AI agents to pay and get paid in real time. Traditional payment systems were not built for machine-to-machine transactions, usage-based billing, or autonomous workflows, creating friction for both developers trying to monetize services and users trying to access them seamlessly. Binance x402 addresses that gap on the BNB Chain. Read on to learn why that matters for the next generation of internet services, and how it could help unlock a more programmable, agent-driven payment layer.What Is Binance x402?Binance x402 is a Binance Pay payment facilitator for BNB Chain. It is designed to help developers and merchants unlock new ways to offer and monetize digital services, from APIs and data platforms to agent tools and automated workflows.It uses standard HTTP 402 payment flows. This allows services like APIs, MCP servers, tools, data platforms, and agent workflows to request and receive payments in a programmable way.Instead of requiring every merchant to build their own payment verification, settlement, and gas-handling infrastructure, Binance x402 provides a simpler facilitator model that handles the heavy lifting. Through Binance x402, merchants can:Present payment requirements to users via HTTP 402 responsesAccept signed payment authorizations from users, wallets, apps, or agentsVerify payment details off-chain before settlementSettle payments on BNB ChainSupport direct buyer-to-merchant token movementOn the user side, Binance x402 works together with Trust Wallet to deliver the first self-custody agent payment loop on BNB Chain. Trust Wallet AgentKit natively supports Binance x402, meaning wallets stay fully self-custody, and private keys never leave the user's device. For developers, agent payments can go live in minutes with no custom payment code required. For everyday users, their agent pays for premium data or services on their behalf while their keys stay on their phone the entire time.Binance x402 is built with broader wallet support in mind. Alongside Trust Wallet, Binance x402 will also be supporting Binance Wallet’s Agentic Wallet to extend the payment capabilities to more users on BNB Chain. This integration is currently in development and is intended to make it easier for users and agents to access paid services through familiar wallet experiences.What Binance x402 UnlocksAgent-native services are quickly becoming a real category. A growing number of directories and marketplaces now list AI agents, tools, and autonomous workflows designed to complete tasks across the internet.As highlighted in a Binance Research weekly commentary, Gartner forecasts global AI spending will reach $2.52 trillion in 2026, a 44% increase year over year. Crunchbase estimates that AI accounted for roughly $242 billion, or about 80%, of total global venture funding in Q1 2026. At the product level, the shift from passive assistants to autonomous agents is also already underway. On Binance Ai Pro, 45.7% of conversations on a single day during the tool’s beta period were system-triggered and ran without any user prompt.As agents become more autonomous, they need a way to pay for the services they use. Binance x402 meets that need by bringing HTTP-native payments to BNB Chain.The Significance of Binance x4021. Easier Payments on BNB Chain: Binance x402 gives developers and merchants a straightforward way to offer payment options for APIs, tools, datasets, content, and agent services. Users and agents also have a smoother way to access them directly on BNB Chain.2. More Utility for Stablecoins in Digital Services: With Binance x402, supported stablecoins on BNB Chain can be used for practical everyday payments, including API access, software tools, data services, and machine-driven transactions.3. Less Integration Friction for Merchants: Merchants integrate through standard HTTP APIs instead of building their own verification flows, settlement contracts, or gas-handling layers. Binance x402 abstracts away the complexity so merchants can focus on their product.4. Built for Agents and Automated Payments: Binance x402 makes it easier for agents, apps, and services to pay per use, handle usage-based billing, and support flexible payment limits, all without relying on traditional checkout flows. This is infrastructure designed for an agent-driven internet.Supported Payment MethodsAt this stage, Binance x402 is available as a BNB Chain-only payment flow. It gives developers and merchants a simple way to accept supported stablecoin payments through off-chain authorization and on-chain settlement.Supported payment methods:eip3009permit2-exactpermit2-uptoSupported assets on BNB Chain:U: eip3009, permit2-exact, permit2-uptoUSD1 eip3009, permit2-exact, permit2-uptoUSDT: permit2-exact, permit2-uptoUSDC: permit2-exact, permit2-uptoFinal ThoughtsBinance x402 is an important step toward a more programmable payment layer for BNB Chain. As agents become more capable at finding information, executing tasks, and interacting across services, seamless payment flows will be essential to making those workflows truly autonomous.For developers and merchants, this opens the door to new monetization models: pay-per-use APIs, agent-accessible tools, automated service payments, and digital micro-economies built around machine-to-machine transactions. With Binance x402, Binance Pay and BNB Chain can help power the next generation of internet services, where agents and users transact more easily and efficiently.Interested in building with Binance x402? Visit the Binance x402 landing page to learn more.Further ReadingBinance Research: Exploring the Future of AI Agents in CryptoHow to Make Stablecoin Payments With Binance Pay — Instant, Borderless, and Gas-FreeStablecoins And The Future of Online Payments

Main TakeawaysBinance Online, Binance's first-ever online conference, brought together leading voices across crypto and finance for a four-hour livestream featuring 10 panels – generating more than 680,000 views on Binance Square.A star-studded speaker lineup included Binance Co-CEOs Yi He and Richard Teng, Binance Founder CZ, BlackRock COO Rob Goldstein, Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse, Solana Foundation President Lily Liu, Adam Back, Chamath Palihapitiya, Anthony Pompliano, and many more.If you missed the event, make sure to catch up on the replays on Binance Square!Binance Online, our first-ever global virtual event, took the industry's biggest conversations to communities around the world. Streamed live across Binance Square, YouTube, and X, it brought together some of the most recognized names in crypto and traditional finance for over four hours of programming – generating more than 680,000 views and nearly 65,000 chat replies from a global audience on Binance Square alone.Across 10 panels, speakers explored the biggest themes shaping the industry today. With AI emerging as a central narrative across sessions – from agentic finance and AI-powered research tools to the intersection of blockchain and frontier tech – the event also covered stablecoins, tokenization, Bitcoin, crypto payments, institutional adoption, and the convergence of crypto with traditional finance. Speakers included Binance Co-CEOs Yi He and Richard Teng, Binance Founder CZ, BlackRock COO Rob Goldstein, Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse, Solana Foundation President Lily Liu, Blockstream CEO Adam Back, YZi Labs Head Ella Zhang, Coin Bureau's Guy Turner and Nic Puckrin, and many more.Missed it? Here are the biggest moments from each session.Yi He & Richard Teng – 300 Million to 3 Billion: The Next Phase of BinanceBinance's two co-CEOs opened the event with the message that 300+ million users is just the starting line. Yi He traced the acceleration: the first 100 million users in five years, the next hundred million in two, the hundred after that in eighteen months – and framed the three-billion-user target as the natural next step for a platform evolving far beyond trading.The super app vision, as Yi He described it, is about building a single platform where anyone, including people who have never had a bank account, can pay, save, send, and invest.Richard Teng emphasized the broader importance of crypto in expanding access to financial services globally: "I travel the world, including to many frontier and emerging markets. And I see that even today, 1.4 billion people are excluded from financial services globally. Crypto is here to solve that problem. That's why we are very passionate about freedom of money globally."Teng also pointed to how much has changed behind the scenes: a rebuilt organizational structure, a compliance team now exceeding 1,600 employees and more than 20% of total headcount, and a deliberate push to become the world's most regulated exchange across more than 20 jurisdictions, with ADGM's FSRA serving as its home regulator.Both co-CEOs named AI as central to the path ahead – not only as a tool for professionals, but as a way to bring financial services to billions of people traditional finance has never reached.Lily Liu, Brad Garlinghouse & Richard Teng – The Evolution EraIn the next session, Richard Teng was joined by Lily Liu, President of the Solana Foundation, and Brad Garlinghouse, CEO of Ripple, to continue the discussion they first began together at Binance Blockchain Week 2025 in Dubai – this time focusing on how quickly the industry has evolved in just a few months around stablecoins, tokenization, regulation, and AI.The conversation opened on a striking number: $10.5 trillion in stablecoin transfers in January alone. For Teng, it illustrated the point that traditional financial infrastructure is "very archaic" by modern standards, and stablecoins are already proving what a globally accessible, near-instant alternative can look like.On traditional finance’s growing presence in crypto, Teng noted: "Competition from the likes of Morgan Stanley is a validation of how far crypto has come." Binance, he added, remains focused on the next billion users – the ones Wall Street isn't serving.The Clarity Act emerged as the session's most important near-term regulatory priority. Garlinghouse argued that a friendly administration isn't enough – large banks have leaned out because they can't be certain the next SEC chair won't reverse course. "With the Clarity Act, you'll see them leaning in in a way we've never seen before."Liu pushed the RWA conversation beyond tokenization. To her, getting existing assets on-chain is only the start, while the bigger opportunity is the entirely new markets blockchain makes possible: compute, energy, and capital formation for the countries that have no meaningful access to financial markets today.CZ, Chamath Palihapitiya & Anthony Pompliano – Where Smart Money Is Moving NowBinance Co-Founder CZ, venture capitalist Chamath Palihapitiya, and Anthony Pompliano, Founder and CEO of Professional Capital Management, came together for a discussion on where capital, AI, and crypto infrastructure are converging – and where some of the industry's biggest investors are focusing next.Palihapitiya argued that the most important AI opportunities over the next five years may be far more "physical" than most people expect, pointing to land, power, chips, data centers, and distributed compute as the infrastructure underpinning the entire AI economy. He also highlighted crypto-native distributed AI networks as one of the most interesting intersections between blockchain and artificial intelligence: "If you just look at the equity value that underpins just Anthropic and OpenAI, you're talking a few trillion dollars that cannot grow without tactical training and inference flops. If you are a purveyor of that, you're going to be a part of that economy."CZ echoed many of those themes, arguing that crypto infrastructure must become "agentic ready" for a future shaped by AI-driven commerce and machine-to-machine payments.He also brought the conversation back to financial access – stablecoins and tokenized equities are increasingly giving users in underserved markets access to dollars, capital markets, and investment opportunities that were previously out of reach.Pompliano closed by arguing that the distinction between crypto and traditional finance is already disappearing: "In the future, there's no Web3 versus traditional finance. It's just finance companies. Blockchain is just a technology that we use. Every financial company must use it. There shouldn't be a distinction."Nina Rong – Architecting Discovery: Stablecoins, RWAs & Agentic Finance"Web2-level simplicity, Web3-level transparency – that's what we are building towards." — Nina Rong, Executive Director of Growth, BNB ChainNina Rong, Executive Director of Growth at BNB Chain, shared how the ecosystem is positioning itself around three major themes for 2026: stablecoins, RWAs, and agentic finance. She pointed to BNB Chain's growing role as stablecoin infrastructure, noting that 40% of all global stablecoin transactions by count now happen on BNB Chain, with roughly 20 million monthly stablecoin users across the network.On RWAs and AI infrastructure, BNB Chain is now the second-largest blockchain for RWAs after Ethereum, with nearly $4 billion in assets on-chain and close to 500 tokenized asset types. The network is also positioning itself as financial infrastructure for AI agents, with more than 179,000 on-chain agents already transacting through BNB Chain. "The future is going to be an ecosystem of co-existing agents and humans at the same time," Rong said.Coin Bureau – Crypto Trends from the Leading Creators"Bitcoin has become very macro-driven. It is now a proxy for a macro asset – and that transmission mechanism didn't exist meaningfully in 2019 or 2020." — Nic Puckrin, Co-founder, Coin BureauCoin Bureau's Guy Turner and Nic Puckrin joined Binance Online to unpack the biggest trends shaping the 2026 market cycle. According to Nic, 2026 is indeed different, and the reason is structural rather than narrative. Spot ETFs, real legislation, institutional custody, regulated on-ramps, and pension-eligible products have embedded crypto more deeply into traditional finance, making Bitcoin more sensitive to global liquidity, rates, and broader macro shocks.The session also looked at how investors are approaching crypto more strategically in 2026. Nic said smarter portfolios now start with a core Bitcoin position of at least 30-50%, followed by Ethereum, selective L1/L2 exposure, and smaller allocations to conviction narratives. Guy pointed to AI agents using crypto rails, privacy, and the X402 protocol as areas to watch, while Nic highlighted Perp DEXs and prediction markets as two of the strongest product-market-fit stories in crypto today.BYOR – Build Your Own Research Framework“Researchers should never outsource original thinking or thesis formation to AI.” — Average Joe Crypto, MessariAlice Liu from CoinMarketCap was joined by Ryan Celaj of DeFiLlama and Average Joe Crypto from Messari for a discussion on how crypto research is evolving in a market increasingly shaped by AI, RWAs, and macro forces. The panel argued that strong research frameworks matter more than ever as crypto becomes harder to analyze through on-chain signals alone.Ryan pointed to RWAs and tokenization as one of the strongest trends in DeFi, while the conversation also focused heavily on how researchers should actually use AI. Rather than replacing independent thinking, the panel described AI as a tool for summarizing technical material, testing assumptions, surfacing datasets, and improving workflow efficiency. “Good outputs depend on good inputs,” Alice noted, emphasizing the importance of combining on-chain analytics with macro, trading, and alternative datasets.The session closed with a broader discussion about crypto’s direction as an industry. Average Joe Crypto argued that the sector is increasingly splitting into two paths: integration with traditional finance on one side, and a renewed focus on decentralization and privacy on the other. Ryan observed that due to this dynamic, less room remains for middle-ground approaches as the industry matures.Adam Back – Why We're All Satoshi & What's Next for Bitcoin“Bitcoin feels more like a discovery than an invention.” — Adam Back, Founder and CEO of BlockstreamThe next session featured Adam Back – founder and CEO of Blockstream, inventor of Hashcash, and one of the few people cited directly in the Bitcoin whitepaper – in a discussion on Bitcoin’s origins, cypherpunk history, and what comes next for the industry. Speaking with The Block’s Gareth Jenkinson, Back reflected on his early email exchanges with Satoshi Nakamoto in 2008, including conversations around how to properly reference Hashcash and other early proof-of-work systems like B-money and Bit Gold.Back argued that Bitcoin succeeded because Satoshi discovered an extremely narrow design space that previous electronic cash experiments had failed to fully solve. “One of Satoshi’s key innovations was allowing the market to price Bitcoin freely,” he explained, contrasting Bitcoin with earlier attempts to engineer price stability directly into the protocol. He also defended Satoshi’s continued anonymity, arguing that Bitcoin became stronger precisely because it evolved beyond any identifiable founder.The conversation later shifted toward Bitcoin’s long-term resilience, including the often-discussed “quantum threat.” While Back described large-scale quantum computing as a real area of research, he argued the technology remains far from practical deployment and noted that Bitcoin developers are already working on quantum-resistant upgrades.Thomas Gregory – Binance Beyond Trading: Building Everyday Crypto Utility“No one goes out shopping and goes, ‘I’m really looking forward to going to payment today.’” — Thomas Gregory, VP of Payments at BinanceContinuing the broader conversation around Binance’s long-term direction, Thomas Gregory, VP of Payments at Binance, discussed the company’s push to evolve beyond a trading platform into what he described as a broader “everyday payments platform.”Gregory argued that the biggest challenge for crypto adoption is removing friction between traditional finance and blockchain systems. “Payments are a hygiene factor,” he explained, pointing to stablecoins, Binance Card, Binance Pay, and new QR integrations in countries like Brazil and Vietnam as examples of how Binance is working to make blockchain infrastructure effectively invisible to users while still delivering the speed and efficiency advantages of crypto.The discussion also returned to Binance’s broader goal of scaling from hundreds of millions of users toward billions globally. Gregory described a future financial super app where users can trade, hold multiple currencies, send remittances, earn yield, pay bills, and spend stablecoins inside a single ecosystem. At the same time, he stressed that crypto payments will only scale if they adapt to local financial behavior and infrastructure.Ella Zhang – Bridging Blockchain, AI & the Future Wave of Frontier Tech“The biggest innovation and industrial change won’t happen in a single domain. It happens at the convergence.” — Ella Zhang, Head of YZi LabsElla Zhang, Head of YZi Labs and co-founder of Binance Labs, joined Binance Online to discuss the growing convergence between blockchain, AI, and traditional finance. Reflecting on the industry’s evolution since 2018, Zhang argued that one of crypto’s biggest early mistakes was viewing blockchain in isolation rather than as part of a much broader technological transformation happening across multiple industries simultaneously. She pointed to AI agents, stablecoins, tokenized assets, and intent-based interfaces as examples of how blockchain is increasingly becoming an invisible infrastructure layer powering ownership, payments, identity, and automation.The discussion also explored the rapid rise of tokenized real-world assets, which Zhang described as one of the biggest catalysts for crypto’s mainstream adoption. She argued that tokenized RWAs are already moving on-chain at meaningful scale, while also predicting that some of the most valuable blockchain companies of the next cycle may not issue tokens at all. Instead, she suggested the industry would increasingly converge with traditional capital markets through public listings, tokenized equity structures, and deeper institutional adoption.Rob Goldstein & Kaiser Ng – Tokenizing the Capital MarketsBinance Online concluded with a session featuring Rob Goldstein, COO of BlackRock, in a discussion with Binance’s CFO Kaiser Ng focused on tokenization, capital markets, and the growing convergence between traditional finance and digital assets. Goldstein argued that BlackRock increasingly sees digital assets not as a separate ecosystem, but as part of a broader shift toward portfolios that combine traditional capital markets exposures with blockchain-native infrastructure. Referencing products like IBIT and BUIDL, he described BlackRock’s strategy as building a “bridge” between traditional finance and digital wallets by offering both digital-asset exposure inside traditional portfolios and tokenized capital markets products on blockchain rails.The conversation also explored the long-term growth potential of tokenization and institutional crypto adoption. Describing tokenized capital markets as still being at a very early stage, Goldstein argued that the opportunity over the coming years should be measured “in multiples rather than percentages.” He also emphasized that many institutions are still in the early stages of understanding digital assets and their role inside broader portfolios. “It’s a very natural cycle that as time goes on, as people get more educated, it’ll enter more and more model portfolios,” he explained, adding that BlackRock continues to see digital assets become an increasingly important topic across client conversations.Looking ahead, Goldstein also pointed to AI as a major future catalyst for blockchain adoption, arguing that AI agents operating on digital rails could eventually create entirely new forms of economic activity and accelerate the growth of tokenized financial infrastructure.Final ThoughtsBinance Online closed on a distinctly forward-looking note, reflecting an industry increasingly shaped by the convergence of AI, tokenization, stablecoins, digital payments, and institutional adoption. Across more than four hours of discussions, speakers repeatedly returned to the same underlying theme: crypto is no longer developing in isolation. From AI agents transacting on blockchain rails to tokenized capital markets and globally accessible payment infrastructure, the industry is rapidly becoming part of a much broader technological and financial transformation.Binance Online was supported by partners including Epic, Fusionist, Pixels, Chromia, and ZEROBASE. All sponsorship proceeds will be donated toward education-focused initiatives, including $35,000 to the UZH Blockchain Center at the University of Zurich to support student enrollment in its Deep Dive into Blockchain summer program, and $15,000 to Geeks Academy in Kyrgyzstan to expand access to online cryptocurrency and blockchain courses.A huge thank you to every speaker, viewer, partner, and community member who joined us for the first-ever Binance Online. The conversations don’t stop here.Catch all session replays on Binance Square.Further ReadingCapital Markets Meet Digital Wallets – BlackRock And Binance On Tokenization as a Two-way BridgeSmart Money in 2026: Insights From CZ, Chamath Palihapitiya, and Anthony PomplianoBinance Online Agenda Revealed – Explore Speakers and Sessions for May 13 Risk Warning: Digital assets are subject to high market risk and price volatility. The value of your investment may go down or up, and you may not get back the amount invested. You are solely responsible for your investment decisions and Binance is not liable for any losses you may incur. Past performance is not a reliable predictor of future performance. You should only invest in products you are familiar with and where you understand the risks. You should carefully consider your investment experience, financial situation, investment objectives and risk tolerance and consult an independent financial adviser prior to making any investment. 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Main TakeawaysAt Binance Online, BlackRock COO Rob Goldstein joined Binance CFO Kaiser Ng to discuss tokenization, digital assets, and the future of capital markets.The conversation highlighted a broad dynamic: traditional finance and Web3 are increasingly being connected through ETFs, tokenized funds, digital wallets, collateral use cases, and institutional infrastructure.Binance Research scenario analysis suggests tokenization could grow meaningfully by 2030, but adoption will depend on regulation, custody, liquidity, and distribution maturing together.The future of finance is unlikely to arrive through one system replacing another. A more feasible scenario is that it will be built through bridges between traditional portfolios and digital assets, capital markets and digital wallets, and regulated financial products and crypto-native infrastructure.That was the central theme of a Binance Online conversation between Rob Goldstein, Chief Operating Officer of BlackRock, and Kaiser Ng, Chief Financial Officer of Binance. The session focused on tokenizing capital markets, but its significance went beyond any single fund, token, or ticker.A BlackRock COO appearing at a Binance event is itself a sign of how far the digital-asset industry has reached. The world’s largest asset manager and the world’s largest crypto ecosystem serve different histories and user bases, but the conversation reflected a reality that is becoming harder to ignore: traditional finance and digital-asset infrastructure are no longer moving on separate tracks. The question now is how the two systems connect, and which institutions can make that connection useful.Two Directions Of The Same BridgeDigital assets have long been framed as a choice between two worlds: traditional finance on one side, crypto on the other. Goldstein rejected that binary framing.“Our strategy from the beginning has been very, very, very simple – very hard to execute, I don't want to take anything away from what we've accomplished – but a very simple strategy, which is to effectively be that bridge between the capital markets and this alternate universe,” he said. “To provide, in a BlackRock quality way, digital assets exposures in the capital markets. And to provide, in a BlackRock quality way, as tokens, capital markets exposures in this alternate digital-asset universe.”That bridge moves in both directions. IBIT brought Bitcoin exposure into a familiar traditional ETF wrapper. BUIDL represents the reverse flow: capital-markets exposure made available as a token on digital rails.These examples suggest that the future of finance will be user choice across multiple rails. Some investors will prefer brokerages, banks, custodians, and familiar account structures; others will increasingly hold and manage value through digital wallets. Institutions will need access to both. At the same time, Goldstein noted that digital assets enter institutional portfolios as a matter of a “natural cycle”:It's a very natural cycle that as time goes on, as people get more educated, it'll enter more and more model portfolios. There'll be more and more of a track record, and the portfolio utility, the diversification utility will become more and more clear to institutions.Why Tokenization is CentralThe core promise of tokenization is making financial products easier to access, transfer, use, and settle. Goldstein framed the opportunity through a client lens: better, faster, cheaper.“We feel there is a great value proposition that tokenization provides relative to some existing structures, particularly with regard to the fund ecosystem,” he said. “When we think of opportunities, we're always thinking within BlackRock: how do we make access better, faster, cheaper for clients and end-clients?”The point is that many parts of today’s financial infrastructure remain slow, fragmented, expensive, or operationally complex. Fund distribution, transfer agency, collateral mobility, settlement cycles, cross-border access, and portfolio operations all contain inefficiencies that digital rails may help reduce over time. Tokenization can make assets more programmable and usable across platforms. It can also create new forms of collateral, liquidity, and access for users who already operate inside digital financial ecosystems.What Adoption Could Look Like By 2030Tokenization remains early. As Kaiser Ng noted during the conversation, the current tokenized asset market is still small relative to the scale of global capital markets. Goldstein also emphasized that tokenization could see “3x, 5x growth rates” for many years while still representing only a small minority of traditional financial infrastructure.That is the right way to understand the opportunity. The base is small, but the addressable market is vast. The pace of adoption will depend on whether several conditions mature together: regulation, institutional-grade custody, secondary-market liquidity, and distribution.Binance Research scenario analysis illustrates how wide the range of outcomes could be by 2030.Penetration rate scenario assumptions (0.2% → 18%) are benchmarked against two historical references: ETFs taking 30 years to penetrate 12% of total stock market cap since inception, and mobile payments scaling from 3% to 77% in just 3 years. Based on these assumptions, the potential market size of tokenized RWAs is projected to range between US$1.6 trillion and US$28.8 trillion.Among all segments, the tokenized equities and government bonds markets are the most significant. Under the baseline scenario, each is expected to surpass $300 billion – yet today, the two combined stand at just ~$18 billion.These figures should be read as projections rather than guarantees, but tokenization should be measured against the scale of global capital markets, rather than only against today’s on-chain tokenized asset base. Even low-single-digit penetration would represent a major expansion.Binance’s Role: From Issuance To AdoptionTo transform finance, technology has first to be implemented, explained, and made trusted by and useful to a critical mass of adopters.Binance has a unique combination of user base, liquidity, infrastructure, institutions, and education. It is where millions of people already access digital assets and where new product categories can be tested and scaled. Goldstein made that point directly.“I do think Binance plays an important role in helping to really provide that better, faster, cheaper value proposition, because at the end of the day, technology needs to be properly implemented and properly explained to people. And Binance is going to play such an important role in that.”The 2030 opportunity depends less on tokenization as a concept than on tokenization as a functioning market. A tokenized asset without liquidity, custody, collateral utility, user access, and risk controls remains a proof of concept; a tokenized asset connected to deep markets and global distribution can become part of everyday financial reality.This is where Binance can help move the industry from issuance to adoption: building bridges between users who think in crypto terms and institutions that think in terms of portfolios, risk, and settlement.The Next Layer: AI, Wallets, And Digital FinanceThe conversation also pointed toward an even larger convergence: digital assets and artificial intelligence.As enterprises begin using AI agents for increasingly complex tasks, those agents may eventually need ways to transact and coordinate value. Traditional financial infrastructure was not built for machine-native activity at global internet speed. Digital tools and rails may become part of the financial layer that allows AI agents to operate in the real economy.For Binance, this convergence is central to the next phase of growth. The industry is moving beyond a narrow definition of crypto as trading alone. The addressable market is widening toward digital finance: storing and moving value, accessing markets, managing portfolios, using tokenized assets, and eventually interacting with AI-enabled financial tools.Final ThoughtsTokenization will not mature overnight, but the overall direction is unmistakable. Digital assets are entering traditional portfolios while traditional products are entering digital wallets. Institutions are looking very seriously at tokenized infrastructure while crypto-native platforms are developing the liquidity and user experience needed to make these products genuinely usable.The Binance Online conversation between Rob Goldstein and Kaiser Ng captured this moment well, offering a glimpse of how the next financial architecture may be built by connecting the two worlds they represent. As tokenization moves from concept to infrastructure, Binance is positioned to help build that bridge for the people and institutions who will use it.Further ReadingSmart Money in 2026: Insights From CZ, Chamath Palihapitiya, and Anthony PomplianoBinance Online Agenda Revealed – Explore Speakers and Sessions for May 13Binance Integrates BlackRock’s BUIDL Fund into Institutional Collateral Framework

Main TakeawaysIn 2018, when severe flooding hit Hiroshima, Binance Charity launched a global crypto donation campaign – raising 61.09 BTC to support affected communities.Local Binance user Mai was central to that effort, helping local NPOs receive and convert crypto donations, demonstrating that blockchain could deliver aid faster and with lower fees and more transparency than traditional transfers.Since 2018, Binance Charity has contributed $43.5M+ across 86 countries, reaching over 4 million beneficiaries worldwide.In 2018, severe flooding devastated parts of Hiroshima, Japan. Communities were displaced, homes were damaged, and local organizations faced growing pressure to deliver aid fast. Binance Charity responded by launching a global donation campaign that raised 61.09 BTC from contributors around the world.There was just one problem: the local NPOs (non-profit organizations) that needed the funds had never worked with cryptocurrency before. For Mai, a Binance user since 2017 and founder of a crypto charity platform in Japan, that was exactly the kind of challenge she had spent years preparing to solve. Years later, Mai revisits this story in our latest Humans of Binance episode – and reflects on how far crypto-powered giving has come since.Crypto Meets a Humanitarian CrisisFor years, Mai had been trying to introduce cryptocurrency into Japan's charitable sector – convinced that blockchain could make donations faster, more transparent, and more efficient during emergencies. Yet adoption among local organizations remained limited. Then the floods hit.Binance Charity's global campaign had raised the funds quickly. But converting a global pool of 61.09 BTC into yen that local NPOs could actually use required someone who understood both fields. So Binance reached out to Mai.Making Crypto Usable for Local ReliefUsing her experience in both cryptocurrency and charitable work, Mai helped facilitate the conversion of the donated funds into approximately 50 million yen through Binance – allowing BTC to be quickly converted into fiat and transferred directly to local NPOs.The process was significantly faster and less expensive than many traditional cross-border transfers. With minimal fees and rapid conversion, more of the funds could go directly toward relief efforts rather than operational costs."It all happened in seconds with almost no fees," Mai said. "This is the real strength of crypto."A Turning Point for Crypto Donations in Japan The Hiroshima response changed what Japan's nonprofit sector believed was possible. After seeing crypto donations work in practice – fast, low-cost, and verifiable – more organizations began exploring digital assets as a legitimate fundraising channel.Mai went on to help many of them set up fundraising through Binance, enabling broader access to global donations. Each organization that came onboard extended Binance Charity's reach in Japan – and every fee saved on transfers meant more aid going directly to the people it was intended for.Today, the affected communities have rebuilt. And across Japan, many more charitable organizations now accept crypto donations than before the Hiroshima campaign – a shift that began with a single conversion, measured in seconds.Binance Charity: Eight Years, 86 Countries, 4 Million LivesMai's story is one chapter in a much larger effort. Since 2018, Binance Charity has contributed more than $43.5 million across 86 countries, reaching over 4 million beneficiaries worldwide through initiatives spanning disaster relief, humanitarian support, and Web3 education.These efforts include flood relief initiatives across Southeast Asia, support for displaced families in Europe, and educational programs helping expand blockchain knowledge across Africa.By combining global reach with local action, Binance Charity continues working to improve how aid can be raised, transferred, and delivered in times of need.Humans of Binance: Real Stories From the CommunityThis story is part of Humans of Binance, a series highlighting real experiences from people around the world whose lives have been impacted by crypto.From creators and educators to entrepreneurs and humanitarian advocates, the series explores how Binance users are applying blockchain technology in practical, meaningful ways. Mai’s story shows how crypto can extend beyond trading and finance to support humanitarian efforts when communities need it most.Watch Mai tell the story in her own words.How to Get InvolvedHumans of Binance is more than a collection of inspiring stories – it's an open invitation. We want to hear from our users across the globe, wherever you are, whoever you are. What has crypto and Binance meant for your life?Share the Humans of Binance videos on your socials with the hashtag #HumansOfBinance and tell us how crypto has made a real difference to you. The most compelling stories will be turned into short animated films – bringing your journey to audiences around the world – with the chance to win a share of 3,000 USDC. Participants will also need to complete a short survey to be eligible.Real Stories. Real People. Real Crypto.Share Your Story NowFurther ReadingHumans of Binance: Real Stories. Real People. 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Main TakeawaysBinance Online 2026 brought together leading voices in crypto and finance, including a panel with Changpeng Zhao (CZ), Chamath Palihapitiya, and Anthony Pompliano on where smart money is flowing.Chamath outlined a four-layer framework he called "dirt to token," covering the physical inputs, software control plane, and distributed compute behind AI.The conversation also dived deeper into how both CZ and Palihapitiya are focused on AI infrastructure, building agentic use cases, and the convergence of AI and finance.At Binance Online 2026, the conversation about where capital is heading has moved past the age-old debate of crypto versus equities. The question now is how AI infrastructure, crypto, and traditional finance are intersecting.That was the backdrop for Where Smart Money Is Moving Now, a panel featuring Changpeng Zhao (CZ), founder of Binance and Giggle Academy, and venture capitalist and entrepreneur Chamath Palihapitiya — hosted by Anthony Pompliano, founder and CEO of Professional Capital Management.Chamath's 2026 Playbook: From "Dirt to Token"Palihapitiya laid out a four-part framework for how he is allocating capital across the AI stack."One theme is this idea of going from dirt to token. And what that means is the land parcel that wraps the data center, that wraps the racks, that then wraps the chips that generates the token”The first layer is the data center stack itself: the land, power, and racks that house chips. The second is what he called the physical fulcrum assets for AI, including prismatic LFP batteries and rare earths. The third is the AI control plane, the software layer where agents and users interact with models. The fourth is distributed compute, where inference and training move closer to end users.On the control plane specifically, Palihapitiya is attempting to build this layer through his own AI-native software development platform 8090."It's this idea that there is a very powerful harness that you will use between people and agents to interact across the entire spectrum of software development. It has to be model-agnostic. That workflow can be broken down into tasks that maybe should go to Anthropic over here but then other tasks should go to OpenAI over there. You reassemble the constructs. You have an agent that's managing for cost and optimization. You have humans that are collaborating with these things, many non-technical humans.”The logic is that no single AI model will win at every task. A control plane sits above the model layer, routing tasks to whichever provider handles a given job best. The control plane optimizes for cost and enables non-technical users to orchestrate complex workflows without writing code.CZ’s Focus on Picks and ShovelsCZ said his personal allocation outside of crypto is concentrated in the infrastructure powering AI rather than the models themselves."I'm actually very interested in the AI infrastructure. So all these AI models are really interesting. I think they have huge potential. But I like to invest in picks and shovels, like all the infrastructure aspects that power AI.”CZ also views AI as the catalyst for the next leap in robotics and biotech. Even so, the majority of YZi Labs' capital, roughly 70 to 80%, remains in Web3, with AI and adjacent sectors making up the remainder.Two Approaches to InvestingThe panel also revealed a remarkable contrast in how both CZ and Palihapitiya approach investing. Palihapitiya described a research-led process anchored in what he called a “prepared mind,” built through his Learn With Me series, where he publicly works through a sector or technology before investing in it. "It's always rooted in learn first, and then do later," Palihapitiya said.CZ takes a different approach. He opens a small position first, then uses that exposure as the reason to go deep on the asset. Having skin in the game becomes the incentive to learn.The Intersection of AI and FinanceMoving away from investing, the discussion touched on the overlap between AI and financial services. CZ believes crypto infrastructure is actively pushing towards compatibility with autonomous agents."We want to make all crypto infrastructure agentic-ready. So when agents want to use crypto, they can call a skill or API and the agents can just use it.”CZ described AI agents that can hold wallets, move stablecoins, and execute trades without human intervention at every step. Careful to flag the risks, CZ also believes letting AI manage capital at scale is still early."For agents to handle large amounts of money for you, or to handle any money for you, is right now, today, a little bit risky because AI is so new. They don't have a lot of guardrails around them.”Though he hasn’t tested the feature for himself, CZ pointed to Binance's own AI trading bots as a practical workaround, where agents operate inside segregated wallets with user-defined parameters. Users can deploy strategies through natural-language prompts, which lowers the barrier to algorithmic trading considerably. CZ also believes that AI will eventually outperform the average human financial advisor, on the grounds that most advisors give generic advice rather than individually tailored analysis.On this front, Palihapitiya is incubating two firms in the category: a next-generation quant trading operation run by a former hedge fund portfolio manager, and an AI-enabled wealth manager he is backing with a friend. "All of this stuff that should just be like a prompt and a yes/no answer by a human and then flawless execution," Palihapitiya said.Democratizing Finance, and the Convergence of Crypto and TradFiBlockchain technology and stablecoins, in CZ’s view, play a crucial role in places where TradFi systems cannot reach. "We already see that in countries or regions where banking penetration is low, like Africa, Southeast Asia, people use blockchain to access stablecoins that they couldn't access before. You may think it is just a simple stablecoin, but that's actually financial access for a lot of people in different parts of the world." In economies experiencing hyperinflation, holding dollars is often difficult or impossible through TradFi banking channels. CZ believes stablecoins are, in much of the world, the most practical on-ramp to the dollar.Pompliano closed the conversation by emphasizing that “crypto” and “finance” are becoming the same thing, comparing crypto’s path to that of the internet. "I think that we're headed in the same way that the internet, right? It used to be internet companies, internet assets, internet entrepreneurs. Now we just call them companies, assets, or entrepreneurs. The same thing's happening in crypto. I always use BlackRock as an example. Like, are they a crypto and Bitcoin company now? Because their biggest product and most profitable product is a Bitcoin product? No, it's just, it's a company. It's in finance.” Final ThoughtsThe Where Smart Money Is Moving Now panel at Binance Online 2026 was a glimpse into CZ and Palihapitiya’s big bets for 2026, from AI infrastructure — such as data centers and chips — to a software company Palihapitiya is building to function as an AI control plane. If you missed the panel or want to see the other sessions from Binance Online, you can watch the full recording on Binance Square. Further ReadingBinance Online Agenda Revealed – Explore Speakers and Sessions for May 13Tune In For Binance Online – A New Global Event Featuring Crypto's Most Influential VoicesIntegrating Finance, Social, and AI: How Binance is Leading Crypto’s WeChat Moment

Main TakeawaysThis blog summarizes the findings of the recent Binance Research report discussing key developments in crypto markets over the past month.In April, total cryptocurrency market cap rose more than 8% to $2.6T, driven by a US-Iran ceasefire, with digital assets showing remarkable resilience amid prolonged geopolitical uncertainty.Looking ahead, markets are watching for inflation data as the prolonged conflict leaves room for the macro backdrop to deteriorate.This blog summarizes key Web3 developments in April 2026 from Binance Research’s monthly report to provide an overview of the ecosystem’s state. We analyze the performance of crypto and DeFi markets before previewing major events to look out for in May 2026.Crypto Market Performance in April 2026In April, total crypto market capitalization rose over 8% to $2.6T, supported by a temporary US–Iran ceasefire and continued resilience in digital assets despite geopolitical uncertainty.BTC extended its rally amid an ongoing short squeeze, climbing from around $66K toward $80K as funding rates remained deeply negative. Meanwhile, equities continued hitting all-time highs, while Brent crude rebounded above $100, keeping inflation concerns elevated amid stagflation fears.On the ETF side, BTC ETF net inflows nearly doubled month-on-month to around $1.97B, while ETH ETF flows turned positive at $492M. The Fear & Greed Index recovered to neutral at 41.Looking ahead, CPI and PCE inflation data remain key macro watchpoints as prolonged geopolitical tensions continue to threaten the broader macro environment.Monthly crypto market capitalization rose over 8% in AprilSource: CoinGecko, Binance ResearchAs of April 30, 2026Performance across the top 10 was broadly positive, with BTC leading large caps, up 12.1% as Strategy aggressively accumulated some 56K BTC in April, including a 34K BTC purchase on April 20 – its largest single buy of the year. HYPE and ETH followed with gains of 9.3% and 7.8% respectively, while Bitmine increased its ETH holdings to 4.21% of total supply after acquiring 244K ETH during the month.DOGE outperformed most major altcoins, rising 7.7% as open interest surged about 57% in the final week of April, pointing to increased leveraged positioning. LINK gained 4.9%, supported by its largest exchange outflow since December ($9M in 24 hours), signalling continued accumulation and tightening exchange supply.XRP and TRX posted modest gains of 3.4% and 3.2% respectively, while BNB and SOL were largely flat. Meanwhile, BCH declined 4.5%, underperforming the broader market.Monthly price performance of the top 10 coins by market capitalization Source: TradingView, Binance ResearchAs of April 30, 2026Decentralized Finance (DeFi)TVL share of top blockchainsSource: DeFiLlama, Binance ResearchAs of April 30, 2026 In April 2026, DeFi TVL fell 10.7% MoM to $82.7B as the sector was hit by $635.24M in exploits – the highest monthly hack total since the Bybit incident in February 2025. DefiLlama recorded 28 hack events, the most on record for a single month.The largest incidents included a $285M exploit on Drift Protocol involving social engineering and governance manipulation, as well as a $293M exploit on Kelp DAO’s LayerZero bridge through compromised RPC infrastructure and fraudulent cross-chain messages.The Kelp DAO exploit also triggered contagion across Aave, generating $230M in bad debt and halving Aave’s TVL. In response, Stani Kulechov led a cross-ecosystem relief effort that raised around $303M to support recovery.Tokenized Real-World Assets (RWAs)RWA net monthly growth by categorySource: RWA.xyz, Binance ResearchAs of April 30, 2026 Total RWA asset value rose 4% MoM to $27.1B, with tokenized government debt continuing to dominate growth and attracting roughly $3B in inflows. Circle’s USYC and BlackRock’s BUIDL expanded 11% and 15% MoM respectively.Ondo’s USDY grew 32% MoM following its partnership with Broadridge Financial Solutions, enabling holders of tokenized stocks and ETFs to participate in shareholder voting through crypto wallets via the ProxyVote platform.At the network level, XRP Ledger’s RWA value climbed 66% MoM to $537M, while Ripple unveiled a four-phase quantum-resistance roadmap targeting 2028, including a zero-knowledge-proof-based emergency migration plan.May Events and Token UnlocksTo help users stay updated on the latest Web3 news, the Binance Research team has summarized notable events and token unlocks for the month to come. Keep an eye on these upcoming developments in the blockchain space.Notable Events in May 2026Source: Cryptoevents, Binance ResearchLargest token unlocks in USD termsSource: CryptoRank, Binance ResearchFinal ThoughtsThis article is only a snapshot of the full report, which contains further analyses of the most important charts from the past month. The full report takes a deeper look at several themes shaping the market, including Markets Rally Despite Hormuz Risks, April’s crypto hacks putting DeFi risk pricing back in focus, and the rise of vault-style borrowing.Read the full version of this Binance Research report here.Further ReadingBinance Research: What Crypto’s 2025 Taught Us – and What to Watch in 2026Binance Research on Key Trends in Crypto – April 2026Binance Research on Key Trends in Crypto – March 2026Disclaimer: This material is prepared by Binance Research and is not intended to be relied upon as a forecast or investment advice and is not a recommendation, offer, or solicitation to buy or sell any securities or cryptocurrencies or to adopt any investment strategy. The use of terminology and the views expressed are intended to promote understanding and the responsible development of the sector and should not be interpreted as definitive legal views or those of Binance. 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Main TakeawaysSuper apps scale by embedding financial actions into daily social behaviors, and WeChat remains the most widely cited reference point for that model.Crypto has started in the opposite order, with trading and payments already operating at scale, but social and AI workflows still fragmented across different apps.Binance Chat and Binance Ai Pro aim to close that gap by bringing conversation and AI tools inside the Binance app.Inside a single app, approximately 1.38 billion people in China send messages, pay rent, hail taxis, invest, book doctors, and run small businesses. It is often cited as a leading example of the most complete super app ever built, and similar patterns have taken hold elsewhere. In Korea, people can pay rent through KaKaoPay. WhatsApp’s Pix integration carries most of Brazil's peer-to-peer payments. Grab started as a taxi-hailing service and now handles payments, deliveries, and loans across Southeast Asia.The world of digital finance has not quite had its version of such integration yet. With the launch of Binance Chat and Binance Ai Pro, the pieces are finally coming together.Unifying A Fragmented EcosystemToday, many crypto users split their time between social platforms for discussion and separate apps for trading and AI. Instead of juggling between Discord, Telegram, X, AI chatbots, and exchanges — what if they could engage in all these social and financial activities from a single interface, just like WeChat? Ease of use is one of the primary drivers in technology. It’s a huge reason why centralized platforms gained traction in crypto's first decade. Clean and intuitive interfaces, mobile-first design, and good customer support contributed significantly to user adoption. This need for accessibility in the applications we use daily is now driving the crypto industry toward its own “WeChat moment.”The WeChat TemplateWeChat launched its payments feature in August 2013. Months later, during Chinese New Year 2014, Tencent introduced digital red packets inside group chats. Within days, tens of millions of users had linked bank cards to send small amounts of money to friends. Other use cases followed in quick succession: utility bills, taxi fares, merchant payments, and eventually wealth management and insurance.Web3’s natural next step toward broader adoption is a super-app-style experience for digital finance – where social, payments, AI, and investing tools coexist in one place.What Already Runs Inside BinanceMost of the services users need to manage activities related to money and markets already run inside Binance. Trading and investing is the obvious one, but it's no longer just crypto. With the recent launch of TradFi Perpetuals, users now get 24/7 exposure to equities, indices, and commodities on the same platform they use for their digital-asset needs.A robust payments system is powered by Binance Pay, which now works across roughly 20 million merchants worldwide, up from 12,000 a few years ago. Over $280 billion has moved through Binance Pay since 2021.Long-term crypto investors can grow their wealth with little effort through a variety of staking, savings, and structured products on Binance Earn.For users who want to explore the depths of Web3, Binance Wallet provides a bridge into on-chain activity, while Binance Alpha 2.0 enables users to explore emerging projects from the comfort and security of the Binance exchange. Binance Chat and Binance Ai Pro Binance Chat provides direct messaging and group chats. In the same conversation, users can start peer-to-peer transfers or switch to Binance Spot to make a trade. Sitting alongside Binance Chat is Binance Square, a deep social feed packed with user-generated content and a feature that lets users share verifiable trading statistics linked directly to their Binance accounts.Binance Ai Pro is an AI-enabled trading assistant that operates on a dedicated sub-account with user-defined permissions and limits. Users can delegate capital under clear rules without exposing their main account. Interaction happens through a chat-style interface similar to other chat bot assistants on the market.To illustrate these layers in action, let’s say a user sees a post on Square about a recent news event. They ask Ai Pro to summarize the event and how markets are reacting. They share what they find with a friend through Binance Chat. Each user independently asks Ai Pro to help them open a position on their own account. Everything happens within the Binance app.What We’re Building TowardMost successful super apps with financial functionality so far have been built from the outside in: messaging first and financial services later. It’s a workable model, as observed throughout the past decade, but it tends to take time and hefty investment.Binance is building from the inside using financial infrastructure that is already in place. Binance is home to over 310 million registered users, deep liquidity across hundreds of assets, fiat rails across major markets, a global crypto payments system for both merchants and customers, and a compliance footprint that has grown meaningfully in the last several years. Adding a social layer and an AI layer on top of that foundation is a far shorter path than building an exchange underneath a chat app.Final ThoughtsSuper apps scale by starting with daily habits, then adding financial actions in the same interface. Web3-led digital finance is growing in the opposite order, and the WeChat moment is closer than it ever has been.Trading, payments, custody, and Web3 discovery are already running on a global scale inside Binance. With Binance Chat and Binance Ai Pro, the conversational and AI layers are now in the same place.Further ReadingBinance Powers Toward 3 Billion Users With an Everyday Financial App VisionThe Next Three Billion Users And The Widening Addressable Market for Digital FinanceFrom Exchange to Infrastructure – How Binance Underpins CryptoDisclaimersBinance Chat: Binance provides the Chat infrastructure as a service for Binance users to engage in their sole discretion. Binance Chat is a communication and content-sharing feature and does not constitute, or form part of, any financial, investment, or intermediary service. The content shared within Binance Chat does not amount to any advice, nor an offer, solicitation, or recommendation to deal in any digital asset. 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Main TakeawaysAI-powered scams and exploits are accelerating, but Binance is deploying AI at scale to counter them – blocking $10.53B in fraud and protecting 5.4M+ users from Q1 2025 to Q1 2026.With 24+ AI initiatives and 100+ models at work protecting users, Binance intercepted 22.9 million scam and phishing attempts, helping to safeguard approximately $1.98 billion in user funds in Q1 2026.Beyond technology, Binance continues to prioritize user education, while also strengthening recovery efforts for more comprehensive user protection.The barrier to entry for scam perpetrators is falling fast, with AI accelerating the drop. What once required technical expertise can now be executed for next to nothing and at scale, with smart contract exploits costing as little as $1.22 per contract (down 22% month-on-month) and advanced models achieving a 72.2% success rate, as per Binance Research’s latest analysis. More critically, these attacks aren’t just targeting systems – they’re targeting people.AI is amplifying social engineering at an unprecedented level, powering deepfakes, phishing bots, fake platforms, voice cloning, and impersonation across chat applications, exploiting trust and urgency. Today, 76% of AI-driven scams fall within the highest quartile for both scale and severity, and in 2025 alone, crypto-related fraud reached $17 billion – a 30% year-on-year increase. Without a proportionate response, the impact is likely to worsen. Fortunately, Binance is building equally advanced solutions to counter and stay ahead of these evolving threats.AI as our ShieldIn response, Binance has been steadily strengthening our defenses. By late 2025, we had already rolled out 24+ AI-driven initiatives and 100+ models – and these numbers continue to grow as we strengthen our defenses against emerging threats. This is further supported by a range of AI-driven defenses across the ecosystem. Computer vision is used to detect fake payment proofs, while real-time language analysis helps surface scam patterns in P2P transactions. AI-driven decisioning now powers 57% of fraud controls, contributing to a 60–70% reduction in card fraud rates compared to industry benchmarks.On the identity verification front, Binance’s KYC systems continue to evolve to counter increasingly sophisticated deepfakes and synthetic identities, delivering up to 100x gains in operational efficiency compared to traditional manual processes without AI.Building Security Into our Architecture: Binance Ai ProAs AI becomes more deeply embedded in everyday life, security needs to be built into the system.Binance Ai Pro reflects this shift by introducing a controlled operating environment designed to reduce exposure to risk. Within this framework, funds managed by AI agents are segregated from main user accounts, and permissions are tightly restricted to trading activity only, with no withdrawal access enabled.In addition, all third-party “skills” must undergo screening before installation, addressing the rising risk of malicious or compromised packages – of which around 12% of third-party skills submitted to the Binance Ai Pro marketplace have been flagged as potentially risky. This additional layer of review helps significantly reduce user exposure to compromised tools, limiting the chances of account or transactional risk stemming from unsafe integrations.Taken together, this architecture is designed to contain potential vulnerabilities at the system level, ensuring that even if issues arise, their impact remains limited and isolated.User Education as DefenseRelying on technology alone is insufficient. As scams increasingly target human behavior, user awareness has become a critical line of defense. That is why Binance has invested heavily in education, with our account takeover (ATO) education initiatives reaching over 179,000 users in Q1 2026.Quantifiable Success in Crypto Scam Prevention and User ProtectionThese efforts have improved real-time threat detection and played a key role in the success of scam prevention and user protection.In Q1 2026 alone, Binance intercepted 22.9 million scam and phishing attempts, helping to safeguard approximately $1.98 billion in user funds. Cumulatively, $10.53 billion in user losses were prevented from the beginning of 2025 through Q1 2026 for more than 5.4 million users. We also blacklisted over 36,000 malicious addresses and issued more than 9,600 real-time warnings daily to help users stay ahead of emerging threats.While these figures reflect meaningful progress, they are ultimately the result of continuous investment in our security infrastructure. As the threat landscape evolves, we remain focused on building and improving systems that can better protect users at scale.Beyond Prevention: Binance’s Recovery EffortsEven with strong preventive defenses in place, some incidents may still occur. Given the inherently irreversible nature of blockchain transactions, recovery is not always possible. However, in certain cases, it is still possible to trace illicit flows and assist in recovering funds through coordinated action.In 2025, Binance helped recover $12.8 million across 48,000 cases, marking a 41% year-on-year increase in recovery outcomes. Beyond direct user support, Binance also worked closely with global authorities, assisting in the confiscation of $131 million in illicit funds and processing more than 71,000 formal law enforcement requests over the year.This reflects a broader principle in Binance’s security approach where protection does not end at prevention but continues through response, collaboration, and recovery when users need it most.Final ThoughtsAI is reshaping both sides of the security equation. It’s making attacks more scalable, more convincing, and harder to detect, while also enabling a new generation of defenses that are faster, smarter, and more adaptive.To close the gap between exploitation and detection, security must evolve at the same pace, embedded across systems, processes, and user behavior rather than treated as a separate layer.Through large-scale AI deployment, real-time monitoring, user education, and secure-by-design architecture, Binance is constantly innovating by turning AI into a reliable shield for our users in this new era of intelligent threats.Further ReadingStrategy Factory: Binance’s AI-Powered Rule Engine for Risk and Fraud DetectionBinance Academy Launches Course on How to use AI Agents in CryptoInnovation at Binance – Optimizing Real-Time Feature Pipelines Through Job Merging

Main TakeawaysTurn your crypto into a thoughtful gesture in just a few taps with Binance Pay, making last-minute gifting faster and more convenient with payments across 100+ crypto assets. Choose from a wide range of gifting options across the Binance Pay merchant network – from dining to travel, luxury experiences, and digital gift cards.Tailor your gift to her personality and lifestyle using this guide, or discover even more ideas and options in the Binance Pay merchants directory.Every mom is different, which is why the best Mother’s Day gift feels personal, thoughtful, and tailored to her lifestyle. Whether she’s a foodie, frequent traveler, collector with an eye for craftsmanship, practical minimalist, or lover of life’s little luxuries, the perfect gift starts with understanding what she truly enjoys.In this guide, we’ve curated Mother’s Day gift ideas based on different mom personalities and lifestyles, drawing on the list of 21M+ merchants that accept crypto payments via Binance Pay, which supports instant, gas-fee-free payments across 100+ crypto assets.Everyday Essentials for the Practical Minimalist MomGift cards are often the simplest answer for a practical mom: they let her choose exactly what she wants, helping to minimize waste while maximising joy, whether that’s beauty, food delivery, entertainment, or everyday essentials.For those short on time, here are two digital gift card platforms you can browse and send within minutes via Binance Pay – making last-minute gifting feel effortless, intentional, and borderless, so you can give her something meaningful no matter where she is in the world.CoinsbeeAlways waiting for her outside a cosmetics store, mentally decoding whether she meant “rosy nude” or “warm mauve but not too warm”? Instead of trying to crack the impossible code of her next skincare obsession or lipstick shade, Coinsbee saves you from becoming an undercover beauty consultant overnight by letting you gift access to cult-favourite beauty retailers – so she can pick exactly what she meant (and what she actually wants). The result is a gloriously free of guesswork gift that still feels personal – without any subtle interrogation.TokenstoreFor the mom who moves through life with intention and momentum, Tokenstore is the ultimate everyday flex. With 500+ global brands across food, groceries, entertainment, and transport, it transforms gifting into pure versatility – from essentials like Amazon and Uber Eats to downtime favourites like Netflix and Spotify, enabling her to cart out whatever she desires!Search for desired digital gift cardCheckout using Binance PayBook the Right Table for the Foodie MomFor the foodie mom who plans entire trips around restaurant reservations, the perfect gift is the right table that she’ll remember for a long time – even after the plates are cleared.Enter La Môme, where Cannes’ Riviera spirit comes alive, while blending elegant interiors with lively Mediterranean dining. Here, long, social dinners feel effortless and celebratory.La Guérite, on the other hand, feels like a hidden escape. Set on Île Sainte-Marguerite and accessible only by boat, it offers daytime seafood lunches by the sea that slowly evolve into a high-energy island scene with music and sunset vibes.Then there’s Medusa, the most immersive of the three – part restaurant, part cabaret, part nightlife spectacle. Located at Palm Beach, it pairs refined, globally inspired cuisine with immersive performances, live music, and theatrical staging that spills from dining room to terrace.Gift the Travel Mom a Memorable GetawayFor moms who value experiences, a thoughtfully chosen stay or destination can feel exceptionally meaningful this Mother’s Day.Travala makes that gift easy. Think 2,200,000+ hotels, flights, and activities across 230+ countries – from last-minute weekend escapes to fully curated multi-city trips. It’s built for the kind of gifting that feels spontaneous, but lands with intention.For a more unique experience, SE Yachting turns the Mediterranean into her private playground – complete with curated routes and sun-drenched decks.If she prefers a fixed address with five-star luxury, JW Marriott Cannes delivers contemporary Riviera luxury steps from La Croisette, with rooftop views, sleek rooms, and a location that puts her in the heart of Cannes’ energy.For old-world glamour, Hotel Barrière Le Majestic Cannes sits right by the Palais des Festivals, offering Art Deco grandeur, sea views, and that classic Cannes “main character” feeling.And for something more design-forward and private, Le Bijou Airhome offers fully serviced, high-design apartments that blend hotel-level service with the comfort of a private residence.Pick Stories for the Curator MomFor the curator mom, gifting is about objects with provenance, material weight, and a story worth telling.La Dobla Bullion speaks directly to that sensibility. Specializing in investment-grade gold and silver, as well as rare and historic coins, it sits at the intersection of collecting and craftsmanship. From globally recognized mint releases to vintage pieces with historical significance, each item carries both intrinsic metal value and a layered narrative.At the other end of the spectrum, LG Dream Cars transform collectability into motion. Focused on high-performance luxury and classic automotive design, the outfit curates vehicles that are as much about engineering heritage and aesthetic presence as they are about driving. Each car is positioned as a statement piece – built for those who appreciate form, performance, and legacy in equal measure.Indulge the Luxury-Loving MomFor the lover of life’s little luxuries who finds joy in the elegance of refined details and tactile craftsmanship, a gift with a refined touch of indulgence is often the perfect choice.Printemps is Parisian retail at its most iconic. Founded in 1865 and housed in its landmark Haussmann flagship, it is a curated world of fashion, beauty, and luxury, known for blending heritage with constantly refreshed seasonal curation.For something more contemporary, Wristcheck caters to the modern timepiece collector. It’s a luxury watch platform offering authenticated timepieces across brands and styles, with the added flexibility of crypto payments – making high-end horology more accessible to a new generation of collectors.Camille Louise Jewellery brings a more intimate form of luxury. Founded by a mother-daughter duo in Switzerland, the maison focuses on ethically sourced materials and refined, wearable pieces designed with understated elegance and lasting emotional value.And for heritage with personality, S.T. Dupont is a French luxury house known for its finely crafted lighters, writing instruments, leather goods, and watches. Each piece carries a sense of ritual and precision – designed not just to be used, but to be kept.Final ThoughtsThe easiest way to approach Mother’s Day gifting is to start with her personality, then choose something that fits the way she enjoys life. Binance Pay opens up a wide range of merchant options to explore, with instant, gas-fee-free payments across 100+ crypto assets when it’s time to check out. We hope this guide gives you a little inspiration and helps you find something that truly delights your mom this Mother’s Day.Further ReadingFrom Retail Therapy to Adventure – Top Travel and Lifestyle Merchants to Explore With Binance Pay This SpringBinance Pay to Expand Crypto QR Payments to 10+ Countries by Q3 2026 After $40M MilestoneBinance Pay Surpasses 20 Million Merchants as Stablecoin Adoption AcceleratesDisclaimer: Digital asset prices can be volatile. The value of your investment may go down or up, and you may not get back the amount invested. 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Main Takeaways1.4 billion adults remain shut out of the financial system globally – a dynamic shaped by geography, account access, product minimums, and eligibility rules.Crypto infrastructure changes the economics of access as digital-asset platforms operate across borders, require no minimum balance to enter, and run 24/7.Binance's answer is offering access to the full spectrum of products within one account, enabling users to start where they are and grow on their own terms. In emerging markets, where Binance’s user share rose from 49% to 77%, the platform is increasingly functioning as an integrated financial account.For a long time, access to financial opportunity depended on where you live, how much capital you start with, and whether you qualify for the products that can serve your goals – or even whether you know they exist. All that is largely still true today.The World Bank says 1.4 billion adults globally remain unbanked, even after account ownership rose to 76% of the world’s adult population by 2021. It also notes that inclusive finance supports growth and resilience, while digital financial services can reduce costs and expand access These gaps shape who gets to save and move money efficiently, invest beyond basic products, and capitalize on the opportunities that arise in fast-moving financial markets. Financial access is thus one of the defining questions of the next era of finance. Here is how crypto infrastructure and Binance’s product vision contribute to expanding access for hundreds of millions worldwide.Crypto Changes the Structure of AccessIn some places, the first barrier is basic account access. Without it, the rest of the financial system remains out of reach. In other cases, the barriers come later, in the form of high account minimums, complex onboarding requirements, or eligibility standards that limit advanced opportunities reachable to wealthier and more sophisticated users.Geography, infrastructure, starting capital, and the very design of the system itself stack on top of each other to restrict access for hundreds of millions around the world.Emerging as a fundamentally new asset class, crypto has also introduced a new kind of infrastructure along the way. Digital-asset platforms are available through smartphones, operate across borders, and can support fractional participation, 24/7 markets, and faster movement between financial activities – changing the economics of access and representing a more direct path into financial participation.A person who may have had limited access to traditional investment products can hold digital assets, earn yield, use on-chain services, make payments, or engage with global markets through one digital account and one mobile interface.Binance’s Answer: The Full Spectrum of ProductsFinancial access becomes an especially powerful tool for improving lives when users can do more once they are inside the system. That includes being able to choose between products that serve different goals: capital preservation, passive yield, market exposure, on-chain participation, payments utility, or more sophisticated trading tools.A healthy financial experience is not one-size-fits-all; it gives users a broader spectrum of options and lets them choose based on their own risk tolerance and level of experience. A platform that offers only one narrow entry point can help users begin, but one that brings together trading, payments, earning opportunities, and on-chain utility can help users stay, grow, and participate more fully over time.At Binance, we think about access as range. A more inclusive financial system should make it possible for people with different goals, levels of experience, and risk tolerances to find products that fit how they want to engage with money and markets.When a range of options exist within one platform, access becomes more practical and durable. Users can start where they are, choose tools that match their needs, then expand their participation over time as their knowledge and confidence grow, and objectives evolve.The chart below illustrates that spectrum, which, for us, is a product roadmap rather than a marketing claim. Expanding financial opportunity is the organizing principle behind every layer of what we've built: from lower-risk, capital-preservation tools for those just entering the system, to high-return opportunities for the most sophisticated participants.*Note that risk is always proportional to return potential.This integrated approach also reflects how crypto is evolving as users are looking for ways to participate in digital finance more fully. Binance’s role in that shift is about more than just scale (though scale helps): the vision is to build a platform where more of those financial functions can come together in a usable way.Binance: Expanding Financial Access in Emerging MarketsBinance has steadily extended its reach into emerging markets since 2020, with users representing such markets – classified using the World Bank's income-level methodology – rising from 49% of the platform's user base in 2020 to 77% in 2026. The trajectory reflects active and growing demand across diverse income environments for a broader range of financial services: savings instruments, cross-border payments, and capital market access delivered through a single, mobile-native platform. As on-chain infrastructure matures, Binance has scaled to meet that demand at a pace and geographic breadth that conventional financial channels have not matched.Figure 1. Growing adoption among Binance users in emerging markets. Source: Binance Research.At the same time, the platform's practical utility extends well beyond spot and derivatives trading: Binance platform data shows that users actively engaging with two or more products account for 24% of total active users, while those using three or more account for 14%, and 83% of this multi-product cohort are based in emerging markets. This breadth of engagement indicates that Binance is being used as an integrated financial account, supporting payments, savings, and yield generation alongside crypto investing.A savings-oriented allocation pattern on the platform reinforces this interpretation: today, approximately 28% of Binance users with portfolio balances of at least $10 hold a minimum of half their portfolio in stablecoins, up from 4% in 2020. The behavior is most concentrated in emerging markets, with 73% of all stablecoin savers on Binance globally based in such countries – reflecting both the broad appeal of dollar-denominated yield instruments and the platform's capacity to serve users with diverse financial objectives across varying income environments.Final ThoughtsExpanding financial opportunity starts with expanding access, but meaningful access goes further than onboarding alone.For too many people, financial participation has historically come with high barriers and limited product choice. Digital-asset infrastructure can help lower some of those barriers by making finance more available through digital-first experiences. Yet, broader access also depends on offering people more than one way to participate.That means creating pathways for different needs and different starting points. When a platform can support the full spectrum, it can serve more people more effectively – and that is what we are building toward at Binance. We believe that the next era of finance will not be defined only by whether markets are open, but by whether more people can actually navigate them in ways that fit their circumstances.Further ReadingBinance Pay to Expand Crypto QR Payments to 10+ Countries by Q3 2026 After $40M MilestoneThe Next Three Billion Users And The Widening Addressable Market for Digital FinanceThe TriFi Superapp: The Convergence of TradFi, CeFi, and DeFi on BinanceDisclaimer and Risk Warning: Digital assets are subject to high market risk and price volatility. The value of your investment may go down or up, and you may not get back the amount invested. You are solely responsible for your investment decisions and Binance is not liable for any losses you may incur. Past performance is not a reliable predictor of future performance. 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Main TakeawaysBinance is launching a Team Binance football jersey, representing our community of over 300 million users worldwide.Ten winners will receive an exclusive Binance jersey and 100 USDC; enter by following @Binance, retweeting, and completing the survey.Stay tuned to our socials for announcements on upcoming events, meetups, and activations in cities around the world.Binance is launching its Team Binance football jersey to celebrate our global community of over 300 million users.Unveiling this jersey means so much more than just another piece of merchandise. Wearing this jersey – in our signature black and yellow colors – is a statement of Binance pride, and a tribute to our resilience, perseverance, and shared journey, as one community, over the past 9 years. Even if you weren’t here from the start, you’re still part of the team.Giveaway: Win a Binance Jersey and 100 USDCTo celebrate this milestone, we’re giving away a limited number of jerseys. Ten winners will be selected based on the creativity, authenticity, and uniqueness of their responses. Each winner will receive an exclusive Binance jersey and 100 USDC.To enter the giveaway:Follow @Binance on X and retweet the giveaway postTell us why this jersey belongs in your collection ⚽Complete the surveyENTER THE GIVEAWAYSee You This SummerThis jersey is just the beginning. Over the coming months, Binance will be bringing the celebration to your neighborhood. Stay tuned to our socials for announcements on upcoming events, meetups, and activations.Further ReadingTeam Up and Score with BinancePick Your Shots: Redefining Success in Crypto and CricketTune In For Binance Online – A New Global Event Featuring Crypto's Most Influential Voices

Main TakeawaysBinance P2P has introduced a powerful new tool, Merchant Vouchers, to better promote seller ads and increase engagement in the marketplace. Verified P2P merchants can now create and manage customized rebate campaigns integrating Vouchers directly into new and existing ads.For sellers looking to stand out to first-time buyers or retain customers, P2P Merchant Vouchers offer a simple way to boost P2P traffic by incentivizing orders.Binance P2P is constantly evolving to give merchants more power, more flexibility, and more ways to grow. Merchant Vouchers, the latest addition to the platform, is a game-changing feature that lets verified merchants run their own rebate campaigns directly on their P2P ads.What Are Binance P2P Merchant Vouchers?Binance P2P Merchant Vouchers are a customizable rebate tool available exclusively to verified merchants. With this feature, merchants can create targeted campaigns right on their P2P ads – offering rewards that incentivize buyers to choose specific listings the merchants wish to promote.Merchant Vouchers give sellers full control over their promotional strategy, all within the Binance P2P platform. With this feature, merchants can create customized rebate campaigns directly on their P2P ads, rewarding buyers and attracting more orders.It's a direct, in-platform way to stand out, drive volume, and build a loyal customer base.Why Use Merchant Vouchers on Binance P2P?Built for merchants looking to attract new buyers or reward the ones who keep coming back, this tool puts promotional control firmly in merchants' hands, enabling them to design and launch rebate campaigns on their own terms, without relying on platform-wide events. By offering buyers a direct incentive at the point of trade, merchants can expect to see increased engagement on their ads, including interest from first-time buyers who might otherwise scroll past. In a competitive P2P marketplace, Merchant Vouchers offer a concrete edge:Attract first-time buyers: A well-placed voucher can nudge a new user to pick your ad. First impressions matter – and a rebate offer makes a listing memorable.Reward loyal customers: Merchants can show appreciation to returning buyers in a tangible way, turning one-time trades into long-term relationships.Full control over promotional strategy: Merchants can adjust their own campaign parameters, without waiting for platform-wide promotions or third-party tools.More orders, less effort: By making ads more attractive, Vouchers naturally drive higher order volume without requiring merchants to constantly adjust pricing or manually outbid competitors.Built into the platform: Everything happens within the Binance P2P interface in a way that is seamless, secure, and familiar for both merchants and buyers.How to Create a Binance P2P Merchant Voucher How to Add a Voucher to an Existing P2P Ad1. Go to the Merchant Portal and click [Vouchers] to access the Vouchers Dashboard.Voucher Dashboard in Merchant Portal 2. Click [Create New Voucher] to start a campaign.Click [Create New Voucher] 3. Customize the P2P Voucher campaign by completing all required fields, including target audience, reward coin, rebate type, total budget, and expiry date.Voucher creation form 4. Once all fields are complete, the voucher will be applied to your ad and your campaign will launch immediately.How to Add a Voucher to a New P2P Ad1. You can also attach a voucher at the time you are creating a new P2P sell ad. During ad creation, scroll down to the Rewards section and click [+ Add] to select an available voucher.Rewards section during ad creationSelect voucher to apply to adHow Binance P2P Vouchers Work for BuyersSome vouchers will be designated for new customers only; others for returning buyers. The reward’s amount and currency will depend on the merchant's voucher campaign settings.How to Find a Voucher-Enabled AdWhen browsing P2P listings, keep an eye out for ads with a voucher indicator. This means the merchant has attached a reward to that ad, and if you qualify, you'll automatically receive a rebate when the trade is completed.Voucher indicator on P2P adVoucher indicator on P2P adHow Rewards Are DistributedRewards are applied automatically; no manual claim is required. They are credited to your Funding Account upon order completion. You can check your reward amount in the Order Details section.Check Order Details for reward confirmationFor more information, visit Frequently Asked Questions on P2P Merchant Vouchers.Final Thoughts More than just a promotional feature, Merchant Vouchers signal where P2P trading is heading: toward greater merchant autonomy, smarter buyer incentives, and a more dynamic marketplace overall.For merchants prioritizing long-term growth, consistent use of voucher campaigns has contributed to healthier repeat order rates and a more loyal customer base. Merchant Vouchers give P2P merchants a smarter, more proactive way to compete and grow in the marketplace.If you're a verified merchant looking to grow your P2P business, now is the time to explore what vouchers can do for you. What kind of campaign will you run first?To get started, access your Binance P2P merchant dashboard and explore the feature today.Further ReadingHow to Manage Your P2P VouchersGuidelines for Use of P2P Merchant Voucher Management ToolWhat Is the Binance P2P Merchant VIP Program?Frequently Asked Questions on P2P Merchant VouchersDisclaimer: Digital asset prices can be volatile. These fluctuations may affect the value of digital assets you buy or sell on the Binance P2P platform, which may be lower or higher at the time of and after completion of the transaction. You are solely responsible for your investment decisions and Binance is not liable for any losses you may incur. By using the Binance P2P platform you trade digital assets directly with other users. Binance facilitates transactions by releasing the digital assets once the offline fiat currency exchange is confirmed by both parties. The trading amount, price and conditions of each advertisement are set by the user publishing it. All payments are final upon completion, unless otherwise required by law. Binance has neither the right nor the obligation to resolve any disputes arising from a completed payment. Binance is not liable for any loss you incur in connection with a completed payment. Not financial advice. For more information, see our Terms of Use and Risk Warning.

Main TakeawaysThe complete Binance Online agenda is now live, with programming running May 13 from 11:00 AM UTC live on Binance Square.The event features conversations with Binance leadership, blockchain founders, institutional finance executives, investors, researchers, and media voices.Session themes span Binance's next chapter, crypto market outlook, Bitcoin's future, BNB Chain roadmap, AI and tokenization, plus $10,000 in giveaways.The Binance Online agenda is here. Across more than four hours of programming, you'll hear from some of the most influential voices in crypto and traditional finance discussing the ideas, trends, and technologies defining the industry's next chapter.Now, with the full agenda listed below, you can see exactly how we're bringing that conversation to life. In addition to the insightful sessions and $10,000 rewards giveaway, all participants that pre-register and attend the event on Binance Square will share a 3,000 USDC reward pool. Read on to learn what to expect.The Binance Online Agenda | Times, Speakers & Sessions11:00 UTC | Jessica Walker | Opening CommentsOpening remarks to welcome viewers and set the stage for the conversations ahead.11:14 UTC | Yi He (Co-CEO, Binance) | Richard Teng (Co-CEO, Binance) | 300 Million to 3 Billion | The Next Phase of BinanceBinance leadership shares its vision for scaling crypto globally and how the platform and industry are evolving to serve the next wave of users.11:40 UTC | Lily Liu (President, Solana Foundation) | Brad Garlinghouse (CEO, Ripple) | Richard Teng (Co-CEO, Binance) | The Evolution EraA discussion on where crypto is heading, from scalability and developer adoption to real-world utility and institutional integration.12:10 UTC | Chamath Palihapitiya (Venture Capitalist & Entrepreneur) | CZ (Giggle Academy & Binance Founder) | Anthony Pompliano (Founder & CEO, Professional Capital Management) | Where Smart Money Is Moving NowA look at where capital is flowing now, which narratives are gaining momentum, and how leading investors are reading the market.12:40 UTC | A Message from the Binance Community | Humans of BinanceA segment highlighting the people behind Binance and what drives their crypto journeys.12:50 UTC | Nina Rong (BNB Chain Leadership) | Architecting Discovery: Stablecoins, RWAs, and Agentic FinanceAn update on BNB Chain’s priorities and upcoming developments.13:10 UTC | Guy | Nic Puckrin | The Coin Bureau | Crypto Trends from the Leading CreatorsThe Coin Bureau team breaks down the trends and narratives shaping how millions engage with the market.13:35 UTC | A Message from the Binance CommunityA segment spotlighting the voices and energy helping grow the crypto ecosystem from the ground up.13:45 UTC | Ryan Celaj (Head of Research, DL Research) | Not Your Average Joe (Research Manager, Messari) | Alice Lui (Research Lead, CoinMarketCap) | BYOR | Build Your Own Research FrameworkA practical session on building stronger research frameworks and navigating the market more effectively as an investor or builder.14:10 UTC | Adam Back (CEO, Blockstream) | Gareth Jenkinson (Head of Multimedia, The Block) | Why We're All Satoshi & What's Next for BitcoinA perspective on Bitcoin’s foundational ideas, cypherpunk roots, and long-term significance from one of its most influential figures.14:35 UTC Thomas Gregory (VP of Payments & Fiat, Binance) | Binance Beyond Trading: Building Everyday Crypto UtilityA conversation on what it takes to make crypto feel seamless in daily life, and what the path to a true financial super app looks like.14:50 UTC | Ella Zhang (Head of YZi Labs) | Bridging Blockchain, AI, and the Future Wave of Frontier TechA look at how blockchain and AI are converging and what that could mean for innovation, infrastructure, and investment.15:05 UTC | Rob Goldstein (COO, BlackRock) | Kaiser Ng (SVP of Finance, Binance) | Tokenizing the Capital MarketsA conversation on how tokenization is reshaping traditional finance and becoming part of how major institutions think about the future.15:25 UTC | ClosingJoin Us for the Conversations That Matter With a lineup spanning Binance leadership, blockchain founders, institutional finance executives, venture capitalists, researchers, and media voices, Binance Online offers a front-row seat to some of the most important conversations in crypto today. Don’t forget that we’ll also be giving away $10,000 in crypto rewards live at the event along with a 3,000 USDC pool shared equally among those who pre-register and attend the event on Binance Square!Join us live on May 13 from 11:00 AM UTC for what promises to be an online event unlike any other.Binance Online is proudly supported by partners including Fusionist, Pixels, Chromia, Epic and Zerobase. All sponsorship of the event will support two education-focused charitable initiatives – the UZH Blockchain Center at the University of Zurich to support student enrollment in its Deep Dive into Blockchain summer program and also Geeks Academy in Kyrgyzstan to expand access to online courses on cryptocurrency and blockchain technology.Pre-register on Binance Square to join the event from 11:00 AM UTC on May 13 and be part of the conversations that will define the industry’s next chapter!Pre-registration Reward Pool Terms & ConditionsThis activity may not be available in your region. The USDC rewards pool will be divided equally among all qualified users.The rewards will be distributed within 30 working days after the activity ends. Illegally bulk registered accounts or sub-accounts shall not be eligible to participate or receive any rewards. 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Main TakeawaysBinance Pay has processed over $280 billion since 2021, demonstrating that crypto payments can scale globally, including $40 million in QR payment transactions processed in just one year across six countries.Binance Pay taps into existing consumer behavior by integrating with local QR payment infrastructure, enabling international tourists in Vietnam to pay using Binance Pay QR and Latin America users to pay across supported countries in the region.With Binance Pay QR live in six markets today and targeting over 10 countries by Q3 2026, this expansion is propelling crypto payments toward becoming a mainstream tool with everyday utility.Today, tapping a card or scanning a QR code is second nature for people across much of the world. By integrating into these existing payment habits, Binance Pay is bringing crypto into everyday life in a way that feels familiar, intuitive, and immediate.Since 2021, Binance Pay has processed more than $280 billion in transaction volume – a clear signal of its real-world relevance and growing role in global payments. Building on this scale, we’re aiming to expand Binance Pay QR integrations with local QR payment networks into at least 10 new markets this year, with the goal of making paying with crypto as effortless as any other method, one scan at a time.Addressing the Market GapWith more than 700 million users globally, including over 315 million on Binance, crypto adoption has already reached meaningful scale. At the same time, retail crypto transactions increased by over 125% year-on-year in 2025, reflecting a clear and growing demand to actually spend digital assets, not just hold or trade them.What has lagged behind is the infrastructure. Traditional cross-border payments still involve delays, fees, and fragmented processes. For crypto users, turning assets into spendable value can often require multiple steps, from transfers to exchanges to cash-out processes, each adding friction. These limitations stand in contrast to the speed and flexibility digital assets are meant to offer.With Binance Pay’s integration with local QR networks, this gap is being closed. Users can spend crypto directly, including at smaller businesses, through simple QR scans that align with how modern payments already work. There is no need to cash out first or navigate additional conversion steps – crypto moves straight into everyday spending in a way that feels natural and accessible.Integrating with Existing Local QR NetworksQR payments have become one of the most widely adopted payment methods globally. Across markets, scanning to pay is now part of people’s everyday routines, with global mobile QR payments projected to reach $8 trillion by 2026, and Asia Pacific accounting for more than half of that volume.The simple, low-cost, and highly accessible nature of QR payments makes them especially popular among small businesses that cannot easily absorb the additional fees associated with traditional card networks. For users, the experience is just as compelling as scanning to pay is often faster and more convenient than digging out cash.Building on this existing foundation, Binance Pay is enabling crypto payments within the same QR flow. By integrating with local QR standards, users can pay with crypto at the same merchants they already frequent, without the need for new hardware on the merchant’s end.In this sense, paying with crypto becomes a natural next step from paying with fiat. With more than $40 million in QR payment transactions processed by Binance Pay in just one year across six countries, this model has already proven its effectiveness, setting a strong foundation for expanding access to the next wave of users.From Latin America to AsiaThe journey began in Latin America in May 2025, where Binance Pay gradually rolled out QR payments in phases. There, payments started to blend into everyday spending, used at major retailers and familiar touchpoints in daily life. Registered users in Latin America can scan local QR codes and pay with crypto when traveling across supported countries, making cross-border payments easier.The expansion into Asia brought a different dimension. In Vietnam, users can scan VietQR to pay, allowing international tourists to use familiar local QR codes and pay seamlessly with crypto, showing how the same infrastructure can support both local adoption and cross-border mobility.By offering real-time settlement and eliminating transaction fees, Binance Pay removes many of the traditional barriers associated with cross-border payments. In practice, this means an international traveler can step off a plane in Vietnam, walk into a café, and simply scan the merchant’s QR code using the Binance app, without having to carry local cash, think about exchange rates or ATM withdrawals.The usage patterns are equally telling. The median tourist transaction in Vietnam is under $10, reflecting small, frequent purchases such as meals, coffee, or convenience store purchases just like cash or cards for everyday spending.Since going live, Binance Pay’s QR network integrations have handled $40 million in transaction volume, with 13% month-on-month growth from March to April 2026. This points to steady, practical usage rather than one-off experimentation.Accelerating Crypto as Payment as the New NormWe believe that crypto has always been meant to be a medium of exchange. With Binance Pay QR Payment solution, our goal is to make this a consistent and reliable experience wherever users are, so the payment journey feels familiar even when the environment isn’t. With that in mind, we aim to bring this to reality at scale, with plans to expand into at least 10 countries by Q3 2026 – beyond Asia and Latin America.How to use Binance Pay to Scan QR and Pay?Open the Binance App.Tap the [Scan] icon at the top right of the homepage to open the scanner.Scan merchant's QR code.Enter the payment amount directly when prompted and choose your desired cryptocurrency to pay with.Confirm the transaction in the app. Binance will automatically convert your crypto at the point of payment based on the current market rate. For more information, click here.Final ThoughtsAs crypto adoption grows and payments infrastructure continues to converge, digital assets increasingly provide everyday utility. With Binance Pay QR Payment, value can move instantly, globally, and without unnecessary friction. One scan at a time with Binance Pay QR, we believe crypto is moving closer to what it was always meant to be – not just something to hold, but something to use.Further ReadingBinance Pay Surpasses 20 Million Merchants as Stablecoin Adoption AcceleratesFrom Retail Therapy to Adventure – Top Travel and Lifestyle Merchants to Explore With Binance Pay This SpringBinance Pay Partners with Scan To Pay to Expand Crypto Spending Across South Africa