PANews reported on May 22 that PancakeSwap has now launched the MERL/USD1 trading pair, which has risen to the third position in liquidity scale, second only to Binance ecosystem tokens $B and $BNB. According to the official announcement, Binance will launch USD1 (World Liberty Financial USD) on May 22, 2025, at 12:00 (UTC), and open USD1/USDT trading.

According to previous news, after Binance Alpha launched MERL, MERL's increase reached 26% within 24 hours. In addition, Binance launched a dedicated trading competition for MERL, where users ranked in the top 10,000 through trading MERL on the Binance Wallet or Binance Alpha platform from May 20, 2025, 09:00 (UTC) to June 3, 2025, 09:00 (UTC) can share a prize pool of over 1 million USD.