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# Binance: Why It's Still Considered the Best Crypto Exchange in 2025
Since its launch in 2017 by Changpeng Zhao (CZ), Binance has grown from a small beginnings in China to becoming the undisputed leader in the cryptocurrency exchange space. Even after regulatory challenges, a historic guilty plea by its founder, and intense competition, Binance remains the #1 choice for millions of traders worldwide in 2025. Here’s why many still call it “Binance the Best.”
### 1. Unmatched Liquidity and Trading Volume
Binance consistently handles more daily trading volume than its next three largest competitors combined. As of December 2025, Binance’s 24-hour spot trading volume regularly exceeds $50–80 billion on active days, dwarfing Coinbase ($3–6B), Bybit ($10–15B), and OKX.
Why this matters:
- Tighter spreads (you pay less slippage)
- Easier to enter/exit large positions without moving the market
- More trading pairs (over 400 coins and 1,400+ markets)
For both retail traders and institutions, liquidity is king — and Binance wears the crown.
### 2. Lowest Trading Fees in the Industry
Binance maintains the most competitive fee structure:
| Tier | Maker Fee | Taker Fee | With BNB 25% discount |
|-------------------|-----------|-----------|-----------------------|
| Regular user | 0.10% | 0.10% | 0.075% |
| VIP 1–9 | As low as 0.02% / 0.04% | | |
Even without using BNB for discounts, Binance undercuts almost every major exchange. When you factor in the BNB discount (still available in 2025), the fees become practically negligible for active traders.
### 3. The Most Complete Product Ecosystem
Very few platforms offer what Binance does under one roof:
- Spot trading
- Margin trading (up to 10x)
- Futures & perpetual contracts (up to 125x leverage)
- Options trading
- Earn products (Flexible & Locked Savings, Staking, Launchpool, Dual Investment)
- Binance Card (crypto debit card available in 60+ countries)
- NFT marketplace
- Web3 wallet
- Binance Labs & Launchpad (early access to new tokens)
You can literally go from buying your first Bitcoin to farming yield on DeFi tokens to spending crypto at Starbucks — all on one platform.
### 4. Innovation Speed That Others Can’t Match
Binance moves faster than any competitor:
- First major exchange to list PEPE, BONK, and most 2023–2025 meme coin pumps
- Launched Binance Smart Chain (now BNB Chain) in 2020 — still the #1 chain by daily active users outside Ethereum
- Introduced Launchpool (free token farming) — copied by every exchange afterward
- Rolled out zero-fee Bitcoin spot trading pairs multiple times to crush competition
When a new narrative hits crypto (AI tokens, RWA, Depin, memes), Binance is almost always first to list the leading projects.
### 5. Global Reach and Resilience
Despite:
- Leaving the U.S. market (Binance.US is separate)
- Paying a $4.3 billion settlement with U.S. authorities in 2023
- CZ serving a four-month prison sentence
Binance emerged stronger. The exchange now operates with proper licenses or registrations in:
- France
- Italy
- Spain
- Dubai
- Japan
- Australia
- Bahrain
- And many more
Richard Teng (current CEO) has shifted the company toward compliance without sacrificing the speed and product depth users love.
### 6. Security Track Record (Post-2019)
After the 2019 hack (7,000 BTC stolen), Binance:
- Created the SAFU fund (Secure Asset Fund for Users) — now worth over $1 billion
- Hasn’t suffered a major hack since
- Offers SAFU insurance + withdrawal whitelist + anti-phishing codes
In an industry full of collapsed exchanges (FTX, Mt. Gox, etc.), Binance has paid every withdrawal on time for eight straight years.
### The Counter-Arguments (And the Critics
Yes, Binance has faced heavy criticism:
- Regulatory pressure worldwide
- Accusations of washing trading in the past
- Opaque early operations
But in 2025, most critics acknowledge that Binance has cleaned up significantly while its competitors (Coinbase aside) still lag in product, fees, and liquidity.
### Final Verdict
For the vast majority of crypto traders in 2025 — especially outside the United States — Binance remains the best all-around exchange because it combines:
- Lowest fees
- Highest liquidity
- Most products
- Fastest innovation
- Proven survival through every bear and bull market
Love it or hate it, Binance is still the 800-pound gorilla of crypto exchanges.
Until someone truly matches its scale, speed, and cost structure, the title “Binance the Best” isn’t going anywhere.
Trade responsibly.

The crypto community is buzzing again. Binance Blockchain Week just wrapped up one of its most heated panel discussions ever: Bitcoin vs Tokenized Gold – which one is the true “digital gold” of the future?
Maximalists squared off against precious-metal advocates, institutional voices clashed with DeFi natives, and the chat was pure fire. Now Binance is turning that energy into an on-chain rewards campaign: share your take on Binance Square, use the two mandatory hashtags, write at least 100 characters, and you’re in the running for a slice of the prize pool.
Here’s my stance, and why I believe Bitcoin still wins this round – convincingly.
1. Scarcity: Bitcoin Wins by Design
Gold has been the ultimate scarce asset for 5,000 years… until we discovered better mining tech, deep-sea extraction, and asteroid mining patents. Bitcoin? 21 million coins. Forever. No board meeting, no central bank, and no technological breakthrough can ever inflate that supply. Halvings are coded into the protocol. That asymmetry is unbeatable.
Tokenized gold (PAXG, XAUT, etc.) is only as scarce as the vault auditor says it is. One accounting scandal (or one successful vault heist) and trust evaporates overnight.
2. Verifiability: Trustless vs Trust-Minimized
I can run a full node and independently verify every single bitcoin in existence with ~$300 worth of hardware. Try doing that with a gold bar locked in a Brink’s vault in Zurich or Singapore. Tokenized gold is better than paper gold, no doubt – but it still requires you to trust custodians, auditors, and sometimes even governments that can freeze assets (look at Russia’s gold reserves in 2022).
Bitcoin is the only asset where “Don’t trust, verify” isn’t just a slogan – it’s the default setting.
3. Seizure Resistance & Sovereignty
Governments can (and do) confiscate gold. Executive Order 6102 in 1933 ring a bell? They can also block tokenized gold on-chain if the issuer is compliant (most are). Bitcoin is the hardest money humanity has ever created precisely because it’s the hardest to seize. Memorize 12–24 words and you can cross any border with billions – try that with a gold bar or a custodian-controlled token.
4. Network Effects & Liquidity
Bitcoin is the only crypto asset that trades 24/7 with deeper liquidity than most fiat pairs. Tokenized gold still lives in the long tail of trading pairs. When volatility hits, BTC is the first mover and the ultimate flight-to-safety asset inside crypto. We saw this again in 2022–2023: everything dumped, but BTC held dominance.
Where Tokenized Gold Actually Shines (Giving Credit)
Tokenized gold is fantastic for:
Portfolio diversification inside DeFi (yield-bearing gold via protocols like Aave or Pendle)
Fractional ownership for retail
Instant settlement vs physical delivery delays
It’s a great complement, but it’s not the apex monetary asset.
Final Take
Bitcoin is digital gold perfected: absolute scarcity, trustless verifiability, seizure-resistant, and backed by the most secure computing network ever built. Tokenized gold is “gold with smart contracts” – an upgrade over physical, but still anchored to the old world’s trust model.
Bitcoin isn’t trying to be better gold. It already is gold’s final form.
#BinanceBlockchainWeek #BTCvsGold
(Quick tip: screenshot your favorite moment from the livestream – maybe Keiser roasting the gold bugs or Saylor dropping another banger – and add it to your Square post. Makes it stand out and apparently helps with the rewards algorithm.)
Now it’s your turn. Drop your take on Binance Square, tag it right, hit 100+ characters, and let the best argument win – on-chain and off-chain.

Bitcoin is digital SCARCITY.
21 million cap. No CEO. No counterparty risk. Pure, cold, hard money that nobody can print or confiscate. It’s the only asset that survived every cycle, every ban, every “death” declaration.
Tokenized gold? It’s just another wrapped asset living on someone else’s ledger. Custodians, audits, redemption risks, storage fees… we’ve seen this movie before. Every gram of “digital gold” still needs a vault, a guard, and a promise that the issuer won’t pull a 2022 Celsius/Luna.
Give me the asset that settles in 10 minutes with finality, that I can send borderless for pennies, that governments hate because they can’t control it.
I respect gold’s 5000-year track record.
But this cycle isn’t about the past.
This cycle is about who actually owns the future of money.
Bitcoin. Not bitcoin-backed. Not gold-backed.
Just Bitcoin.
My favorite moment from the #BinanceBlockchainWeek livestream so far? When someone asked “why not just tokenize everything?” and the only honest answer was silence.
#BTCvsGold #BinanceBlockchainWeek