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Binance Coin is the cryptocurrency issued by the Binance exchange and trades with the BNB symbol. In May 2024, Binance Exchange was the second largest (as verified by Coinmarketcap) cryptocurrency exchange in the world, with a daily trading volume of $11.8 billion.
Binance Coin (BNB) had a 24-hour trading volume of $1.45 billion.The Binance blockchain is built using Ethereum and uses BNB as its native token. It was launched during an initial coin offering (ICO) in July 2017 and has a strict maximum of 200 million BNB tokens.
The ICO offered 10%, or 20 million, BNB tokens to angel investors, 40%, or 80 million, tokens to the founding team, and the remaining 50%, or 100 million, to the various participants.Almost half the funds raised during the ICO process were intended to be used for Binance branding and marketing, while around one-third were used to build the Binance platform and perform necessary upgrades to the Binance ecosystem.
