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Main TakeawaysAgentic Wallet security controls are set in the Binance app, so you can define what your agent is allowed to do, how much it can spend, and what it can access before it starts running.Most protections are enabled by default and can be adjusted or turned off – with the exception of address whitelists – at any time if you need more flexibility. Developer Mode is optional for external transaction signing and applies separate safeguards, while notifications and a dedicated dashboard help you track asset changes and confirm higher-risk actions.Agents are useful when they reduce manual work. They can monitor, decide, and execute your strategy so you don’t have to obsessively watch the charts. But that same capability creates an obvious risk: an agent can do something you did not intend, whether because settings were too broad, the behavior was unexpected, or something was compromised. That’s why Binance has put guardrails in place to help reduce these risks for users.In this post, we’re focusing on security controls built specifically for Binance Agentic Wallet, which is used when an agent needs wallet and on-chain capabilities. What is Binance Agentic Wallet?Binance Agentic Wallet is a dedicated MPC-secured wallet created for AI agents to trade, transfer, manage assets, and handle on-chain operations on your behalf. Its balance is isolated from your main Binance wallet. An agent can only access funds you move into it, and only within the permissions, spend limits, and whitelists you set in the Binance appSecure by DesignBinance approaches agent safety through good product design, giving you straightforward controls over permissions, limits, and visibility. Users shouldn’t have to be security engineers and experts in order to use our product. The underlying framework is sophisticated, while the user controls are designed to be approachable for anyone who is comfortable configuring trading and wallet settings.We’ve built our toolkit so you can set clear boundaries without digging through lines of code. All security configurations for Agentic Wallet can only be changed in the Binance app. You also shouldn’t have to approve every single action for an agent to be useful. Once the agent is running, it operates within the limits you set, and you get visibility through a dashboard and push notifications whenever it moves assets.Set Boundaries Before the Agent Can ActWhen you activate Agentic Wallet in the Binance app, you set four core boundaries that define what the agent can do and where it can operate. These are enforced controls. If an action falls outside your settings, the agent cannot access it. Most of these safeguards are turned on by default. If you’re already experienced with using agents, you can loosen these settings at any time for more flexibility.Choose what the agent can doStart by choosing the action categories the agent can access through skill-level module toggles. If you only want the agent to read data, you can enable market data and disable everything else. If you want it to make transfers but not interact with DeFi, you can do that too. Disabled scenarios are inaccessible to the agent.Set a daily spend limitThere's no single overall cap: Dex Swap & Transfer, DeFi, x402, and Developer Mode each have their own 24-hour quota, configured separately and drawn from independently. A low limit on one won't affect the others, so it's worth setting each one deliberately. If you're new to agents, start at the lowest available limit for each. It gives you room to test real workflows without giving the agent too much spending power.Limit which tokens it can useA token whitelist is enabled by default. With it on, the agent can only operate on tokens you specify. If a token is not on the list, it is out of scope. Advanced users can turn the whitelist off, but the default is protection-on.Limit who it can send toRecipient restrictions are permanently enforced. Agents can only transfer to addresses in your whitelist address book, plus your own UID keyless wallet. You can manage the contents of the address book, but you cannot disable the restriction.Additional on-chain safeguardsUntrusted tokens are automatically screened for honeypot behavior and token tax rate. A tax rate above 5% triggers a warning, and above 10% is treated as high risk. If the audit service is unavailable, execution requires explicit user confirmation.Review and revoke EVM token approvals, so you reduce exposure from old approvals you no longer need or mitigate impact if a previously-approved approval is later compromised.MEV protection is enabled by default, which helps reduce the risk of third parties deliberately causing unfavorable execution on your swaps.Developer Mode: Extra Safeguards for Advanced PermissionsSome users may want their agents to sign externally constructed transactions, meaning raw transactions that are not limited to Binance’s official contracts. Because the risk profile is higher, Agentic Wallet provides a separate set of safeguards through Developer Mode.Developer Mode is off by default. Activating this feature for the first time requires reading a disclaimer and completing a secondary confirmation.What changes when you enable Developer ModeSeparate 24-hour quota pool: Uses a separate 24-hour transaction limit, default 1,000 USDT, adjustable to 5,000 / 10,000 / 50,000 USDT, calculated separately from normal agent transaction limits.Balance hard cap: Wallet balance above 10,000 USDT cannot enable Developer Mode, and it auto-disables if exceeded during operation.Auto-disable after inactivity: Auto-disables after 7 days of inactivity, and the activity timer resets on each successful preview or execution.Unlimited approval rejection: If an unlimited approval is detected (for example, approve(spender, MAX_UINT256)), the transaction is rejected outright.Mandatory transaction simulation: External transactions must be simulated on-chain before execution. Simulation failure results in signing being refused.Visibility and Higher-Risk HandlingAgents are meant to operate without you needing to watch every step, but it still needs to be a transparent experience. Agentic Wallet surfaces asset changes as they happen and uses your risk settings to decide whether an action needs confirmation or should be blocked.Notifications and a dashboard to review activityEvery transaction involving asset changes (transfers, swaps, DeFi operations) triggers a push notification to the Binance app. A dedicated dashboard also shows Agentic Wallet asset changes and operation history.Confirmation for high-risk activitiesTransactions that hit a risk score of 4 or above can be pushed to the Binance app for your confirmation or auto-rejected, depending on how you set up your abnormal transaction settings.Session timeout and emergency controlsAgentic Wallet signs out after 48 hours of inactivity, and the wallet can be frozen from the Binance app.Final ThoughtsAgent OS connects agents to real financial capabilities, placing security and user control central to the experience. Users can delegate execution while keeping clear limits around what their agent is allowed to do, where it can operate, and how much it can use. In Agentic Wallet, those controls are expressed through in-app boundaries, an optional Developer Mode with separate safeguards, and visibility into asset changes through notifications and a dedicated dashboard.As more users interact with on-chain services through agents, a fine balance needs to be struck between convenience and stringent controls. We want users to have strong safeguards without turning the experience into a technical exercise bogged down by complex terms and pages of code.Further ReadingThe Financial Architecture of the Agentic Era3 Ways People Are Already Using Binance Agent OSChoosing the Right Tools for Your AI Agent Disclaimer: The Agentic Wallet is a dedicated Keyless Wallet in which AI agents are enabled to interact with Binance Wallet services on a user’s behalf. Users are solely responsible for configuring agent permissions, setting appropriate limits, and monitoring agent activity. Agentic Wallet uses artificial intelligence (AI) to automate actions on your behalf and to provide information and recommendations. This includes automated actions / transactions within the permissions and limits configured by the user. AI outputs may be inaccurate, incomplete, or unsuitable for your needs. By selecting “I agree” and enabling this feature, you acknowledge that Agentic Wallet enables AI agents to take actions on your behalf within the permissions and limits you configure. Your inputs, instructions, and related data will be processed to provide these AI-enabled features in accordance with the Privacy Notice. Use of the Agentic Wallet involves inherent risks associated with automated, AI-driven decision-making, including the potential for unintended transactions, errors, or losses arising from agent behavior within the scope of permissions users have granted. Binance Wallet does not guarantee the accuracy, reliability, or outcomes of any actions taken by an AI agent operating through the Agentic Wallet. The Agentic Wallet utilizes Secure Auto Sign technology, which, once authorised, allows transactions to execute without individual transaction confirmations. The Agentic Wallet operates as an isolated wallet, separate from your existing Binance MPC Wallet. Binance Wallet assumes no liability for losses resulting from agent errors, unauthorized access, or misuse. Digital asset prices are volatile, and investments may lose value. Seek independent advice before investing. This is not financial advice. For more information, see our Terms of Use, Risk Warning and AI Policy and Terms.

Main TakeawaysFund your Binance account directly from your bank account or card with your local currency, or other currencies such as USD or ARS. Choose your path: convert to crypto right away, or hold fiat until you’re ready.Once your account is funded, everything runs from one place. Depending on what’s available in your region, you can trade crypto, buy US stocks, grow your funds with Binance Earn, or spend through Binance Card and Pay.Please note: Products and services referred to here may not be available in your regionGetting started with crypto begins with something simpler: funding your Binance account with the money you already have in your bank account or on your card. Whether it’s dollars or your local currency, moving it onto the platform unlocks everything else. From there, depending on your region, you can trade crypto, buy US stocks, earn yield, and spend with Binance Card and Pay, all from one account.No matter where you’re starting from — whether you’re brand new to digital assets, or already using Binance and looking for a faster way to move money — this guide has you covered. We'll walk through two ways to fund with fiat, the payment methods available in your market, and exactly what you can do the moment your funds land.Why Fund with Fiat Directly?By funding your account with your local currency or other currencies directly on Binance, you skip the friction of third-party exchanges, reduce transfer costs, and gain instant access to trading, earning, and spending.The old way: Buy crypto through a third party → pay markup and spread fees → wait to clear → transfer to Binance → then trade. Multiple steps, fees, and delays.The Binance way: Send money from your bank account or card→ funds land in minutes → buy, trade, earn, and spend — all in one place.The result is simple: fewer steps, competitive fees, and no third party standing between you and your money. You send it, it lands, and you’re ready to trade, earn, or spend, all without waiting on someone else’s timeline.Two Ways to Fund with Fiat CurrenciesHow you fund your account depends on what you’re trying to do. Some users want crypto in hand immediately, ready to trade, spend or hold. Others prefer to keep things flexible, holding fiat until they’re ready to make a move. Either way, there’s an option built for you.Option 1: Buy Crypto Directly with FiatWant crypto right now? Use your fiat balance or payment method to instantly purchase crypto — Bitcoin(BTC), Ethereum(ETH), stablecoins, and more. The crypto is credited to your Binance account immediately, ready to trade, hold, or spend.Best for: Users who know what they want and want it now.Option 2: Deposit Fiat into Your Binance AccountPrefer to keep your funds in fiat and decide later? Deposit USD or other supported currencies directly into your Binance account. Your fiat sits as a stable balance — convert to crypto whenever you’re ready, or use it across the platform as-is.Best for: Users who want flexibility and control over when to enter the market.Both methods use the same payment channels. The difference is simply whether you convert to crypto at checkout or hold fiat in your account.Fiat Deposit Channels by MarketBinance supports a wide range of fiat deposit methods tailored to your region. Here’s a closer look at three currency examples.USD DepositSWIFT Bank Transfer — 0–5 business days; ideal for larger depositsCard (Visa/Mastercard) — near-instantApple Pay / Google Pay — near-instant, right from your phoneARS DepositsBank and digital wallet transfers (CBU/CVU) - InstantZAR DepositsEFT Bank Transfer - near-instantLinked Payments - supports 6 banks - near-instant Absa Pay - near-instantMore currencies are supported across regions, including ARS, BRL, and ZAR. Check the deposit page for options available in your country.What You Can Do After Adding Funds Please note: Products and services referred to here may not be available in your regionOnce your fiat lands in your Binance account, you’re ready to make the most of what the platform offers. From trading crypto and buying US stocks to earning yield and spending in the real world, everything runs off the same balance. Here’s what’s possible (depending on your region):1. Convert to Crypto & Trade Spot MarketsUse your fiat balance to buy Bitcoin, Ethereum, stablecoins, and 400+ other cryptocurrencies directly. Then trade across hundreds of spot pairs — all with Binance’s deep liquidity and low fees.2. Spend with Binance Card, Binance Pay & MarketplaceYour Binance balance isn’t locked to the app. It doesn’t need to sit there until you decide to cash out or trade. You can spend it directly, in the real world, through a physical card, an online marketplace, or QR payments with local and international merchants, depending on what works for you.Binance CardConvert your crypto to spendable funds and use Binance Card for everyday purchases, online and in-store, anywhere major cards are accepted. No need to cash out to a bank account first.Binance Pay — Local QR PaymentsIn 5 LATAM countries — Brazil, Argentina, Peru, Colombia, and Bolivia — you can use Binance Pay to scan interoperable QR codes for daily payments at local merchants. It works with the country’s existing payment infrastructure, so you can pay with your crypto balance as easily as cash. Binance Pay — Travel PaymentsTraveling to Vietnam or the Philippines? International tourists can pay with their crypto balance via Binance Pay at participating merchants — no cash, no ATM withdrawals, no currency exchange needed. Just scan, pay, and go. Learn more in our article: Binance Pay: Scan QR Codes to Pay Like a Local Across 7 CountriesBinance MarketplaceHead to the Binance Marketplace for even more online purchase options — from AI subscription plans to mobile top-ups, all payable directly with your crypto balance. Learn more in our detailed guide: Introduction to Binance Lifestyle Marketplace3. Buy & Sell US StocksTrade popular US equities directly from your Binance account. Buy fractional shares of your favorite stocks, and manage your portfolio alongside your crypto holdings — no separate brokerage needed. Please note that availability varies by region. US stocks trading is a regulated product and may not be offered in your market.4. Potential to Grow your CryptoPut your idle crypto to work through Binance Earn. Choose Flexible Savings for easy access to your crypto anytime, Locked Staking for potentially higher rewards over a fixed term, or Dual Investment if you want to set your own price targets. However you like to earn, there’s an option that fits.How To Get StartedReading about your options is one thing, but actually funding your account is another. This section breaks down exactly how — step by step — so you know precisely what to tap and when, whether you’re buying crypto directly or depositing fiat first.Option 1: Buy Crypto DirectlyLog in to Binance, tap Buy Crypto on the home pageSelect your fiat currency and the crypto you want to buyChoose a payment method — card, Apple Pay, Google Pay, or bank transferConfirm the purchase — crypto is credited to your spot wallet instantly or within minutesOption 2: Deposit FiatLog in to Binance, tap Buy Crypto → switch to the Deposit tabSelect your desired fiat currency from the listPick a payment method — SWIFT, card, or others depending on your regionEnter your payment details and confirm — each method shows the estimated arrival time upfrontOnce funds land, convert to crypto, trade, earn, or spendFinal ThoughtsOnce you’ve funded your account with fiat, the rest of the platform runs from the same place. Buy crypto and start trading, or hold your fiat until you’re ready. Depending on what’s available in your region, you can also earn on it, buy US stocks, or spend through Binance Card, Pay, or Marketplace — all without separate apps or moving money between platforms.The journey from traditional money to digital assets doesn’t have to be complicated. With the right deposit method, you can move funds in minutes and start using what’s available to you on Binance. Your money, and your freedom to use it, however you want, whenever you want.Follow the steps above and you’ll be up and running in no time.Further ReadingBinance Offers Direct USD Deposits and Withdrawals in Over 70 CountriesBinance Pay: Scan QR Codes to Pay Like a Local Across 7 CountriesBinance Pay Surpasses 20 Million Merchants as Stablecoin Adoption AcceleratesDisclaimer: 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. 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. APR is an estimate of rewards you will earn in cryptocurrency over the selected timeframe. It does not display the actual or predicted returns/yield in any fiat currency. APR is adjusted daily and the estimated rewards may differ from the actual rewards generated. Securities are executed through Binance's clearing broker partner, Alpaca Securities LLC. Binance does not handle or custody your Securities. Securities are subject to high market and liquidity risk, particularly outside traditional market hours. Binance may receive payment for order flow remuneration. This material should not be construed as financial or investment advice. For more information, see our Terms of Use, Securities Trading Product Terms, Binance Pay Terms of Use and Risk Warning.

Prepared by Binance Global Policy Insights | September 2026Steven McWhirter, Global Policy LeadDiego Montes Serralde, Global Policy ManagerExecutive SummaryArtificial intelligence, tokenization, and digital money are commonly discussed as separate technology trends. That distinction is becoming less useful. As AI systems evolve from conversational tools into agents capable of planning, interacting with external systems, and acting on behalf of individuals or organizations, they need financial infrastructure that is machine-readable, continuously available, and governed by precisely defined authority.In parallel, tokenization is making financial assets and rights more programmable, while stablecoins and other forms of digital money are creating new mechanisms for software-native settlement. Together, these developments point toward an emerging financial architecture with four interdependent layers.GOVERNANCEIdentity and authorization translate human intent into verifiable machine authority.DECISIONAI determines appropriate actions within that authority.ASSETTokenization makes financial value and rights increasingly machine-operable.SETTLEMENTDigital money allows value to move programmatically between participants.Security, operational resilience, monitoring, and accountability cut across all four layers. The commercial contest is therefore expanding beyond payments to the trusted infrastructure through which machines are permitted to act economically.Central ThesisThe defining commercial opportunity of the agentic era may lie in the trust infrastructure that connects the model, the money, and the payment rail. The strategic moat may therefore be interoperability with trust.1. From Artificial Intelligence to Economic AgencyMost interaction with AI remains advisory: a user asks for information, research, or a recommendation and receives an output. Agentic systems change that relationship. A conventional AI assistant might identify a suitable flight. An agentic system could identify it, determine that it complies with an agreed mandate, authenticate to the merchant, obtain authority to spend, complete the transaction, and update the user's itinerary.Visa describes a progression from assisted commerce, where AI supports decision-making and the human retains final approval, toward autonomous payments characterized by asynchronous decisions, complex workflows, and end-to-end commercial actions. Mastercard similarly frames machine payments as high-frequency, low-latency transactions that can occur continuously in the background of digital commerce.Meta's vision of personal AI illustrates how far this could eventually extend. It envisages highly capable personal agents operating continuously across areas including finances, home management, and commerce. This is a corporate vision rather than a forecast, but it illuminates the infrastructure challenge that would arise if persistent personal agents became widely adopted.Once software can cause financial or operational state changes, model accuracy becomes one element of a much broader control problem. The more consequential questions concern who authorized the agent, what it may access, which actions it may take, which limits apply, how that authority can be changed or withdrawn, and who remains accountable when something goes wrong.2. The Four-Layer ArchitectureThis architecture is functional rather than institutional. It allows different companies, blockchains, and payment networks to participate while separating the economic functions that an autonomous financial workflow needs to perform.2.1 Governance: Translating Intent Into AuthorityAn agent's technical capability and its legitimate authority are different things. An AI system may be capable of transferring a large amount of money. The relevant financial question is whether it is authorized to do so, for what purpose, within which limits, and to which counterparties.Emerging payment architectures increasingly address this distinction directly. Google's Agent Payments Protocol uses typed mandates designed to provide verifiable evidence of user intent and configurable transaction guardrails. Mastercard's Agent Pay for Machines credentials agents and applies programmatic permissioning, while Visa Intelligent Commerce combines payment credentials, controls, authentication, and protections.The commercially important innovation may therefore be programmable delegated authority. For an agentic financial system to scale, infrastructure must establish that a machine represents a legitimate principal and possesses authority to undertake the proposed action.2.2 Decision: AI Determines What Should Happen NextWithin that authority, AI determines what should happen next. The governance layer determines what an agent may do; the decision layer determines what it should do. A procurement agent might be authorized to purchase defined categories of software from approved suppliers within a daily budget. A treasury agent might rebalance specified liquid assets while remaining unable to add new counterparties.This distinction points toward bounded autonomy. Intelligence can be sophisticated while authority remains constrained by deterministic permissions, execution limits, runtime controls, and revocation mechanisms. Confidence in the surrounding control architecture allows the financial system to use a reasoning model without granting it unconditional trust.2.3 Asset: Tokenization Makes Value Machine-OperableDecision-making alone is insufficient. If AI agents are to participate efficiently in financial activity, the assets and rights they interact with increasingly need to be understandable and operable by software. Tokenization provides one mechanism for achieving this.Its deeper potential lies in making ownership, transferability, restrictions, settlement terms, and other characteristics programmable and machine-readable. This can include tokenized securities, funds, deposits, collateral positions, and commercial claims. AI provides intelligence and orchestration; tokenization provides a programmable asset environment.2.4 Settlement: Digital Money Becomes Programmable InfrastructureOnce an authorized decision has been taken and an asset or service identified, value needs to move. Stablecoins possess several characteristics that lend themselves to machine-mediated commerce: they are software-native, continuously available, and capable of moving through APIs and blockchain infrastructure.The emerging market points toward coexistence among settlement methods. Mastercard's machine-payments architecture supports cards, accounts, and stablecoins, while Stripe's Machine Payments Protocol is designed for programmatic agent payments and supports stablecoin and fiat methods, including cards and buy now, pay later.Strategic value may therefore come from orchestrating stablecoins, tokenized deposits, conventional bank account money, cards, and other settlement mechanisms according to price, availability, jurisdiction, and risk.3. Payments Are Becoming Internet ProtocolsA further shift concerns the relationship between payments and the internet itself. Historically, software applications interacted with separate payment systems. Emerging protocols seek to make payment part of the native interaction between machines.x402 is an open-source protocol that uses the HTTP 402 Payment Required mechanism so software can request a resource, receive payment instructions, settle, and continue the interaction programmatically. In July 2026, the Linux Foundation announced the operational launch of the x402 Foundation as a neutral governance home for internet-native payments for AI agents and applications.Stripe's Machine Payments Protocol pursues a related objective through an open standard that enables agents and services to coordinate micropayments, recurring payments, and other programmatic transactions. Cloudflare is also incorporating x402 into its agentic-commerce infrastructure and has announced programmable wallets designed to support machine-native payments, delegated spending controls, and persistent agent identity.The transaction flow can therefore evolve from software, checkout, and payment provider toward software request, payment requirement, automated authorization, settlement, and resource delivery. Payment moves deeper into the architecture of the internet.4. The Rise of Trust InfrastructureInternet-native payment protocols and stablecoins are sometimes presented primarily as threats to incumbent payment networks. A wider view shows how Visa and Mastercard are adapting existing capabilities to address the trust challenges created by machine commerce, including identity, credentials, authentication, tokenization, permissions, fraud controls, and settlement interoperability.Visa describes Intelligent Commerce as embedding payment credentials, controls, authentication, and protections into automated buying. Mastercard's Agent Pay for Machines similarly combines credentialing and programmatic controls with multi-rail settlement, alongside its wider work on Verifiable Intent.This suggests a plausible evolution in the economic role of payment networks. Their value proposition could gradually expand from routing payments to establishing whether the agent, mandate, and transaction can be trusted. Agentic commerce creates new trust challenges, while existing payment networks already possess global merchant acceptance, regulated financial counterparties, tokenization capabilities, fraud infrastructure, and extensive transaction histories.Commercial ImplicationThe strategic question is who controls the trusted interfaces between the layers: proving identity, translating intent into enforceable authority, routing across protocols, connecting forms of money, securing execution, and preserving accountability.5. Web3 as an Early Execution EnvironmentWeb3 serves as an early example of machine-operable financial infrastructure. Public blockchains already operate as continuously available environments in which wallets, digital assets, smart contracts, and applications interact through software rather than institution-specific interfaces.Web3 is best understood as an execution environment in which the governance, decision, asset, and settlement layers can interact natively through software. This is especially important for agentic finance because execution and settlement can be connected within the same technical environment.Binance x402 provides a practical example. Binance describes its implementation as enabling HTTP-native payments on BNB Chain for APIs, tools, and digital services, allowing payment requirements and settlement to be handled programmatically within the web interaction.The likely future combines on-chain infrastructure with conventional financial systems. Agents may select among stablecoins, tokenized deposits, bank accounts, cards, and other rails according to transaction context.6. Case Study: Binance and the Convergence of Financial LayersBinance provides a useful commercial case study because its development increasingly spans several of the layers identified in this paper. Its current strategic framing has moved beyond exchange functionality toward a multi-asset financial super app combining crypto, direct stocks, tokenized securities, and traditional-market derivatives within a common account environment.In June 2026, Binance described its multi-asset super app as offering more than 7,000 U.S. stocks and ETFs alongside crypto in select jurisdictions. By August, it described a unified, always-on account spanning direct stocks, tokenized securities, and TradFi perpetuals.Tokenized securities provide a tangible illustration of the asset layer becoming programmable. Binance states that eligible direct-stock positions can be converted into corresponding bStocks and back again, while the tokenized form can trade continuously and be withdrawn to compatible wallets. Binance Research reported that approximately 44% of bStocks trading volume occurred outside regular U.S. market hours as of June 30, 2026.The innovation lies in moving an asset between conventional and programmable environments while maintaining a connection to the underlying financial instrument. Combined with stablecoin settlement, wallets, on-chain connectivity, and machine-native payment protocols, this begins to resemble a connected financial operating stack.For agentic finance, AI systems become more useful when intelligence, asset access, permissions, execution, and settlement can interact through machine-readable interfaces instead of remaining fragmented across unrelated systems. The longer-term opportunity for Web3-native platforms extends to providing programmable financial environments through which humans and software agents can move between intelligence, assets, and settlement under defined governance controls.7. How the Commercial Map ChangesThe market is more usefully analyzed by infrastructure function than by conventional industry category. A company classified today as a payment network, crypto platform, cloud provider, or cybersecurity vendor may compete at very different points in the agentic financial stack tomorrow.LayerCore FunctionIllustrative ParticipantsIntelligenceDetermine what action should occurAI models and agent platformsGovernance and identityEstablish who the agent represents and what it may doPayment networks, identity providers, and mandate protocolsProtocolCommunicate payment requirements and commercial instructionsx402, MPP, AP2, and future standardsWallet and orchestrationHold credentials or value and execute instructionsCrypto, cloud, and fintech infrastructureAssetProvide programmable financial value and rightsTokenized securities, funds, deposits, and collateralSettlementTransfer final economic valueStablecoins, deposits, cards, and bank moneySecurity and assuranceConstrain and verify machine activityCybersecurity, fraud, monitoring, and assurance providersThe most strategically interesting businesses may be those that can participate across several layers without becoming dependent on a single protocol, currency, or agent ecosystem. This points to competition for the interoperability points between layers rather than a winner-takes-all battle for one payment rail.Multiple agent frameworks, identity standards, payment protocols, and forms of digital money are likely to coexist. The durable moat may be the ability to monetize trusted economic activity whichever rail is used.8. Governance Is Becoming Part of the Product ArchitectureAs authority moves from humans to software, governance becomes increasingly technical. Controls such as least-privilege access, transaction thresholds, counterparty allowlists, machine identities, approval gates, runtime monitoring, revocation, and auditability become part of the product architecture itself.This direction is visible in public policy as well as commercial design. The UK Financial Services AI Adoption Plan identifies agentic payments as a near-term practical proxy for broader autonomous financial systems and highlights legal accountability, agent identity and verification, and machine-to-machine authentication as core elements of a proposed trust framework.This convergence reinforces the commercial thesis. Trust infrastructure is simultaneously a product requirement, a risk-control requirement, and a potential source of economic value.9. Conclusion: Trust Infrastructure for the Machine-Mediated EconomyAgentic commerce is often described as AI shopping on behalf of consumers. Its deeper significance is architectural. Software is beginning to acquire the ability to participate directly in economic activity. That requires infrastructure capable of translating human or institutional intent into trusted machine authority, applying intelligence within that authority, interacting with programmable assets, and settling value through increasingly digital financial rails.The emerging architecture therefore consists of four connected layers: identity and authorization provide governance; AI provides intelligence and orchestration; tokenization provides programmable assets and rights; and digital money provides settlement. Security, resilience, and accountability connect them.Stablecoins and internet-native payment protocols reduce the friction of machine settlement. Tokenization makes financial assets increasingly machine-operable. AI provides the intelligence to determine which economic action should occur. The governance layer allows these functions to scale safely.The Central QuestionHow do humans and institutions safely delegate economic authority to software?That question may define one of the most important financial infrastructure markets of the coming decade. The commercial opportunity is likely to be strongest at the interfaces between intelligence, identity, programmable assets, payments, and security. Platforms that combine these capabilities while preserving user control, regulatory trust, and interoperability will be well placed to support the next phase of digital finance.Binance already operates across several of these interfaces through global digital-asset markets, wallets, stablecoin and payment rails, tokenized assets, Web3 connectivity, and increasingly AI-enabled tools. The broader lesson is the strategic value of connecting these functions within a trusted and interoperable environment. For Binance Global Policy, the opportunity is to help shape policy frameworks that allow innovation across these layers while preserving security, accountability, competition, and user choice. The agentic era represents a broader evolution in the trusted infrastructure that supports machine-mediated economic activity.Disclaimer: This article is intended for general information and discussion purposes only. It does not constitute legal, financial, or investment advice, nor does it represent a commitment to launch any product, service, or feature in any jurisdiction. References to third-party projects and protocols are illustrative and do not constitute endorsements. Product availability may vary by jurisdiction, and readers should conduct their own research and consult professional advisers where appropriate.

Main TakeawaysKane joined Binance with no crypto experience, and every role he had held before – receptionist, academic supervisor – connected in ways that only became visible once he was inside. From his first months as a Customer Service Agent, Kane was working directly with users on live, high-stakes issues, building the judgment that would eventually carry him into the Investigations team.Kane's philosophy has stayed the same throughout five roles in four years: focus on the work, go beyond what is required, and trust that each stage builds toward the next.Binance Seeds is our early-careers program designed to nurture talent and accelerate professional growth. It features two tracks: the Pioneer Talent Program, a full-time opportunity open to candidates with up to 5 years of experience, and the Binance Accelerator Program, a 3-6 month fixed-term contract for students and recent graduates. In a blog series behind these stories, we feature real accounts from people who have grown, taken ownership, and made an impact at Binance early in their careers.Kane's is one of them. He joined in 2021 with no crypto background, moving from a front desk and a classroom straight into one of the most fast-moving environments in finance. What he brought with him looked unconventional on paper; what he built over four years was a specialist who now investigates crypto fraud and works to recover funds for victims at one of the world's largest financial platforms. Five roles, each one earned, each one building on the last. His story is about what happens when patience and precision compound over time, and what that kind of growth can look like for anyone starting out in crypto today.An Unlikely Starting PointKane's path into crypto started with a conversation. When his friends had been talking about opportunities in blockchain, something clicked. He was interested in technology, motivated to grow, and ready to try something new. He applied to Binance and got in.At the time, he was splitting his days between a reception desk and a classroom, two roles built entirely around people: reading situations quickly, staying composed under pressure, and communicating clearly with someone who needed a steady hand on the other side. These were the skills that he carried through the door at Binance. The context was about to change completely, but the instincts would serve him well.Finding the Red ThreadKane joined Binance as a Customer Service Agent, assisting users with inquiries, resolving routine issues, and referring complex cases to specialized teams. He treated that structured work like the foundation it was. Every case on the queue was a person: often stressed, often confused, with real money and real stakes on the line. Realizing who he was working for became the starting point that shaped everything he did afterward.His curiosity surprised him too. Within his first few months, his attention kept pulling toward security. The volume of fraud and suspicious activity flowing through the system, and the technology sitting underneath all of it, drew him in steadily. He started teaching himself how blockchain worked, and the more he understood, the more he wanted to know.As a frontline agent, Kane was often the first point of contact for users reporting security issues. He handled the intake, escalated to Customer Service Security, and in doing so got a window into how that team operated. He watched closely, paid attention to how cases were handled once they left his hands, and six months after joining Binance, he moved into CS Security himself.His scope expanded significantly: analyzing suspicious activity, examining blockchain transaction data, flagging accounts, and recommending actions. Greater complexity, greater autonomy, and a wider circle of stakeholders that now included internal audit, legal, compliance, and sometimes law enforcement. He saw how the Investigations unit, going further than the brief, used every available means to help victims recover what they had lost – and so for Kane, getting in there became the goal.Earning His PlaceIt took 1.5 years from joining Customer Service Security to make that move. Kane spent that time deepening his understanding of blockchain, sharpening how he handled complex cases, and proving consistently that he was ready for more.When he stepped into Investigations, the work was more complex and higher-stakes than anything he had done before. Each case carried real weight, with real people affected. The learning curve was steep, and Kane had to grow into it quickly."Overwhelmed. Exhausted," is how he describes that period. "These cases were hard. I wasn't sure if I was good enough for the position."He went to his manager directly, who advised that since he was new, he needed time to familiarize himself with the work.Over the months that followed, he started organizing case information more effectively, built stronger habits around collaboration, and found his footing one case at a time. The realization that changed the rhythm: quality over quantity. Each closed case built his confidence, and his confidence built his speed.The Work Behind GrowthThe feedback that shifted Kane most was about documentation. In investigations work, clear records are essential so that any team member can step in and continue a case seamlessly.“As my caseload grew, I understood the value of documenting everything systematically," Kane says. "Key details, findings, next steps; having it all recorded makes the work sharper and more efficient."His approach to incoming information became more rigorous in parallel. Early on, he collected what was in front of him and followed standard procedure. Over time, he developed the habit of verifying sources carefully, asking more probing questions, and building in checks before acting.Investigations rarely happen in a vacuum, and Kane learned early that waiting for alignment was a slower path than building it proactively. "Cross-functional work taught me the value of structured collaboration," he says. "Now I make it a habit to align early and communicate proactively."The Standard Around HimThere is a particular kind of pressure that has nothing to do with deadlines or managers. It comes from the people working alongside you. Every member of the Investigations team is an expert in blockchain tracing and investigative work."If I chose to coast, I would fall behind," Kane says. The team raises each other's standards collectively, and being surrounded by people who operate at that level makes it possible to keep rising.That environment extends beyond the work itself. Kane has the freedom to work when and where he wants, and he has learned to manage the trade-offs that come with that. When something urgent lands on his plate and he has plans, the plans shift. He delegates where he can, stays intentional about how he spends his energy, and keeps investing in his own learning so that each new demand is slightly less unfamiliar than the last. Flexibility is a tool, and he treats it as one.Final ThoughtsFrom receptionist and academic supervisor to customer service agent, then customer service security agent, and finally, investigations specialist – these five roles look like five different directions until you see the red thread running through all of them. Kane was paying attention to what each environment asked of him, to the skill it required, and to what he could carry forward."Focus on the work. Go beyond your responsibilities. Work hard, work smart. Success will follow." For Kane, that has been the whole philosophy. Five years in, it still is.This is what Binance Seeds is designed for: a place where early-career talent is trusted with real responsibility from day one, where each role builds toward the next, and where the path you took to get here is part of what you bring.Curious about Binance Seeds and how we're building the next generation of talent in crypto? Explore our Binance Seeds page to learn more about the program and its two tracks.Further ReadingNaomi’s Binance Seeds Story – Learning Fast, Leading Early, Transitioning WellBinance Seeds: Growing the Next Generation of Crypto TalentMaking It Count: How Bola Turned a Short-Term Opportunity With Binance Into a Full-Time Win

Main TakeawaysOn September 7, 2026, Thailand’s Technology Crime Suppression Division recognized Binance for the third consecutive year, reflecting a sustained partnership against cybercrime and digital asset-related financial crime.Binance and Thai law enforcement have collaborated across major investigations, blockchain tracing, wallet and account analysis, urgent law enforcement requests, and knowledge-sharing initiatives.The partnership has grown beyond case-by-case support into a broader exchange of operational expertise, strengthening the long-term investigative capabilities of Thai authorities.Binance has again been recognized by the Technology Crime Suppression Division (TCSD), under the Central Investigation Bureau (CIB) of the Royal Thai Police, for the third consecutive year. Presented at TCSD’s 17th anniversary ceremony in Bangkok, the award reflects the continued collaboration between Binance’s Investigations team, Thai authorities, and other private sector partners in addressing cybercrime and digital asset-related financial crime.Accepting the award on behalf of Binance TH and Binance respectively were Nirun Fuwattananukul, CFA, CEO of Binance TH, and Akbar Akhtar, Senior Regional Advisor for Asia-Pacific. This highlights a strong working relationship grounded in complementary expertise, continued knowledge-sharing, and a commitment to effective joint investigations.What the Partnership Looks Like From Both SidesThree years in, we asked the people closest to this partnership, at the Technology Crime Suppression Division, Binance TH, and Binance, to reflect on what it has meant for their work.Pol. Col. Watcharapan Siripak serves as Deputy Commander of the TCSD under the Central Investigation Bureau of the Royal Thai Police. “As digital assets evolve, so do the tactics of cybercriminals. We remain committed to carrying forward our mission to protect the public from cyber threats,” he said. “This continued recognition reflects the strength of our partnership with Binance and Binance TH and the tangible results it has delivered for Thai law enforcement. We look forward to building on this cooperation in the years ahead.”Above: Pol. Col. Watcharapan Siripak (left), Deputy Commander of TCSD, Royal Thai Police, presents the award to Nirun Fuwattananukul (right), CFA, CEO of Binance TH.Nirun Fuwattananukul, CFA, CEO of Binance TH by Gulf Binance, said: “As Thailand tightens crypto rules, protecting users requires strict AML controls and tight teamwork with law enforcement. Earning this recognition for the third straight year proves our commitment to Thailand’s digital asset space. At Binance TH, we are constantly investing in user safety, top-tier compliance, and public-private partnerships to fight evolving cyber threats.”Above: Pol. Col. Watcharapan Siripak (left), Deputy Commander of TCSD, Royal Thai Police, presents the award to Akbar Akhtar (right), Senior Regional Advisor for Asia-Pacific at Binance.Akbar Akhtar, Senior Regional Advisor for Asia-Pacific at Binance, said: “This third consecutive recognition isn’t about the award itself — it reflects three years of trust and shared expertise built with TCSD in protecting the public. TCSD’s investigative strength on the ground, combined with Binance’s intelligence and technical depth, has turned that partnership into real outcomes that make it harder for criminals to exploit digital assets. Going forward, our commitment remains the same: to keep closing the gaps bad actors look for, and to keep strengthening Thailand’s own investigative capabilities so this fight only grows stronger.”From Case Support to Sustained Operational CooperationThe cooperation extends well beyond individual case support. Where circumstances allow, Binance's Investigations team works with Thai law enforcement to act on lawful requests, tracing blockchain activity, analyzing wallet and account relationships, and supporting cross-border investigations — a capability that has become essential as financial crime in the region grows in scale and sophistication.Each side brings a distinct strength to the table: TCSD contributes exceptional investigative and operational capability, while Binance contributes intelligence and technical depth. It’s a model built on complementary strengths, not one-sided support.Blockchain Intelligence in PracticeBinance applies the same rigor to its own platform, with AI-driven risk systems that protected more than 5.4 million users and blocked $10.53 billion in fraud from Q1 2025 to Q1 2026.That same commitment underpins its engagement with Thai authorities across major enforcement initiatives, including Operation Fox Hunt, Operation Skyfall, and Operation 293, which led to the recovery of more than 430,000 USDT following a hacking incident. It also extends to Binance’s recognition as a key partner in Thailand's national anti-cybercrime agenda at the 2025 Thailand United Against Scams event.Final ThoughtsEvery arrest, traced transaction, and officer trained is a signal to bad actors that digital assets are not a safe place to operate. Binance’s commitment is straightforward: compliance-first operations, security systems that scale with the threat, and open collaboration with the authorities who protect the public. As cybercriminals evolve, so will the defenses built to stop them — in Thailand and across the region.Further ReadingBinance Helps India Trace $24M in Alleged Illicit Crypto FlowsBinance and DSCI Support India’s Narcotics Control Bureau in Darknet CrackdownCompliance, by the Numbers – Inside Binance's Global Safety Infrastructure

Main TakeawaysThe Binance Wallet Security Center helped users avoid approximately $540 million in potential losses in the first half of 2026.Protection runs at every stage of the attack chain, from filtering 206 million spam transfers to catching 4.93 million high-risk transactions, and flagging 996,000 malicious approvals.Bad actors are using AI to scale deception, with malicious entities nearly tripling quarter over quarter, making it critical to verify, review, and scan your wallet regularly in the Binance Wallet Security Center.On the Web3 security front, fake websites, imposter support agents, and fraudulent projects – the familiar attack vectors – operate alongside emerging threat types. Binance Wallet security steps in to help you counter the evolving on-chain threats. In the first half of 2026, the Binance Wallet Security Center helped users avoid approximately $540 million in potential losses. It works in the background, scanning in real time the moment you open a link, sign a transaction, or receive an unknown token. When something looks wrong, it warns you, and when something is clearly dangerous, it stops it.In this blog, we’ll survey the threat landscape of 2026, show you what the built-in Web3 Security Center does, explore how AI is rewriting the playbook for attackers and how we are fighting back, and finally, walk you through a ten-second check on your own wallet.From Spray and Pray to Precision HuntingIn the first half of 2026, the industry’s biggest security incidents ran into the hundreds of millions, and one trend has been visible behind many of them: attacks are getting smarter and more deceptive. AI now lets threat actors batch-generate malicious code, deepfake executive video calls to slip past internal approvals, and spin up fake websites, identities, and scripts at almost no cost. The incidents below are major project security events from H1 2026, compiled from CertiK and SlowMist public reports.Figure 1: Crypto industry’s biggest H1 2026 security incidents. Sources: CertiK / SlowMist public reports.While these incidents may feel distant to everyday users, phishing hits much closer to home. According to CertiK’s Hack3D H1 2026 report, phishing incidents fell more than 50% year over year, yet total losses declined by only 10.8%, still reaching roughly $370 million, which suggests that attackers could have moved from spray and pray to precision hunting. ScamSniffer’s data reinforces this: in January 2026 alone, signature phishing claimed 4,741 victims and $6.27 million in losses, a 207% jump month over month.What Binance Wallet’s Built-in Web3 Security Center DoesWe place defenses at every stage of the attack chain: filtering out traps and junk before they reach you, catching risky transactions the moment you sign, and surfacing approvals you may have long forgotten.Figure 2: What the Binance Wallet built-in Web3 security center doesIdentifying and Filtering Out Junk and TrapsIn the first half of 2026, the Binance Wallet Security Center filtered around 206 million spam transfers, protecting 2.6 million users. These spam transfers can create different types of risk. Some are spam airdrop tokens that try to lure you into visiting fake websites or interacting with malicious tokens. Others are address poisoning attempts, where attackers place lookalike wallet addresses in your history to trick you into copying the wrong address when transferring funds. Even a one-character difference can send funds to the wrong recipient, where the loss is often irreversible. The Web3 Security Center continuously identifies and filters these risks from your wallet, giving you a safer, cleaner wallet experience while also helping reduce the chance of costly errors when transferring funds.Scam tokens, honeypots, rug pulls, disguised contracts and phishing domains often set the trap before you even notice it. Binance Wallet security tries to detect these risks earlier, across more chains and with greater speed. If a threat is detected, a risk warning will pop up, giving you one more chance to pause before you click, sign in or buy in.Catching Risky Transactions the Second You SignWhen you tap “confirm,” a single unclear signature or disguised approval can drain your assets in seconds. In the first half of 2026, Binance Wallet security identified around 4.93 million high-risk transactions across 19 chains. Some were blocked directly by the system, while others were abandoned after users received risk alerts from the Binance Wallet Security Center. While we cannot block every malicious transaction for you, the Web3 Security Center uses transaction simulation and security detection to make risks clearer before you confirm. You can see what the transaction will do, how your balances may change and whether approvals will be granted or modified, helping you spot risks and avoid mistakes before signing.Surfacing Approvals You’ve Long ForgottenOften, the real risk is not a single transaction, but an approval left open for too long. You may have granted a DApp permission months ago and forgotten about it, but that approval can still expose the assets you authorized. Binance Wallet security brings these long-standing risks back into view, helping users see which permissions should no longer exist. In H1 2026, it identified around 996,000 malicious approvals.Attacks are Evolving With AIComparing both quarters of H1 side by side, newly identified malicious entities, including phishing domains, impersonation tokens, malicious contracts, and malicious addresses, surged. This reflects both stronger detection capabilities and how fast new threats multiply. Brand-new threats are being mass-produced at unprecedented speed, often designed to scam users within minutes of deployment, with AI accelerating how quickly attacks evolve. To stay ahead, Binance Wallet security is proactively using AI to strengthen detection, analyze risk intent earlier, and respond faster as attack patterns evolve.How Binance Wallet Security Uses AI to Detect ThreatsFor a token, we go beyond its codes or blacklist status and use AI to analyze its behavioral logic and risk intent, including whether it can be bought but never sold, or whether it hides a backdoor that bypasses what users would reasonably expect. For a website, we look past how legitimate it appears and use AI to extract risk features, identifying sites that impersonate well-known projects to trick users into signing approvals. This is how the P2P “verify your assets” phishing wave was caught in the first half of 2026.Case Study: Siphon TokensMost users assume that as long as they avoid signing approvals or clicking strange links, their funds are safe. The case of Siphon tokens proves otherwise. They are a class of phishing tokens with backdoors built directly into their contracts, often hidden through deliberately obfuscated code or closed-source contracts that cannot be inspected from the outside. On the surface, you simply bought a token. Seconds later, that token can be transferred out of your wallet or zeroed out entirely, without you ever granting a single approval.Figure 3: How siphon tokens workThis kind of attack slips past conventional checks because it leaves only limited, short-lived signals for detection. Blacklists arrive too late since these tokens are deployed from disposable wallets, live for an hour or two, then vanish without a trace. By the time a full security assessment completes, the funds are usually gone.We caught it by focusing on detecting suspicious behavior. When a token defies normal logic, hides a backdoor or reveals clear risk intent, we issue an alert as early as possible. The question we ask is what it is actually trying to make users do.How to Protect YourselfAt Binance, we are dedicated to strengthening every layer of defense, identifying new threats faster, blocking risks more accurately, extending coverage to more chains, and using AI to keep pace with how quickly attackers evolve. But no security system can protect a decision you insist on making. We can flag a suspicious contract, warn you before a signature, and show you exactly which approval looks wrong, yet the final decision is always the user’s. Some attacks, like social engineering, are built for exactly that gap, bypassing code entirely to target your trust instead, which is why these three habits matter as much as any tool.Understand it before you sign: If you cannot explain what a transaction does, do not sign it.Verify before you trust (DYOR): Confirm the person, link, or project is real before giving it your trust.Use [Security Center]: Ten seconds is enough to spot approvals worth revoking or risky assets worth clearing. To access it, open the Binance App → [Binance Wallet] → [Settings] → [Security Center] → [Scan Now].Final ThoughtsThe first half of 2026 showed that attackers are trading volume for precision, with AI making that precision cheaper. Binance Wallet security answered by filtering around 206 million spam transfers, identifying roughly 4.93 million high-risk transactions across 19 chains, and surfacing close to 996,000 malicious approvals, helping users avoid approximately $540 million in potential losses. At Binance, your security is our priority, and we will keep making detection faster and coverage broader. However, no tool can undo a transaction you’ve approved. Understand what you sign, verify before you trust, and take ten seconds to scan your wallet in the Binance Wallet Security Center.Further ReadingHow Binance Security Prevented a $1.2M Governance AttackBinance Wallet Security Center – Designed to Identify, Assess, and Manage Potential Threats Across DeFi A Comprehensive Guide to Defending Against Address Poisoning Attacks

Main TakeawaysBinance has signed memorandums in Kazakhstan with the Ministry of AI and Digital Development, the National Bank, and the Astana International Financial Centre.The agreements cover digital assets, payments and investment — including exploring a potential stablecoin, developing new payment infrastructure, and expanding how digital assets can be used within Kazakhstan’s investment programs.Together, the three agreements mark Kazakhstan’s shift from regulation to practical implementation, positioning the country as a regional growth hub for digital finance.Kazakhstan’s digital asset and financial technology ecosystem continues to grow. The latest step is the signing of three memorandums by Binance with key government and financial institutions in the country: the Ministry of AI and Digital Development of the Republic of Kazakhstanthe National Bank of the Republic of Kazakhstanthe Astana International Financial Centre (AIFC)The three agreements cover different but interconnected areas: digital assets, payment infrastructure, and investment opportunities. Together, they lay the foundation for the further practical adoption of digital financial technologies in Kazakhstan.Digital Assets: From Regulation to Practical AdoptionUnder the memorandum with the Ministry of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Development of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Binance Kazakhstan will expand cooperation in digital assets, digital and computing infrastructure, and innovative payment solutions.Key areas of cooperation include exploring the possibility of issuing a stablecoin in Kazakhstan, developing infrastructure for payments using digital assets, improving tax and judicial approaches, and creating new products and services.“Today, Kazakhstan is moving to the next stage in the development of the digital asset market — from establishing a regulatory framework to building infrastructure and practical solutions. Our goal is to create conditions in which new financial technologies contribute to economic development, attract investment, and enable new digital services. “Partnerships with global tech companies allow us to move more quickly from initiatives to their practical implementation,” said Zhaslan Madiyev, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Development of the Republic of Kazakhstan.This area of cooperation is particularly important for the further development of the local ecosystem. As regulation evolves, the focus is gradually shifting from establishing basic rules to exploring how digital assets can be used in practice.New Payment InfrastructureThe second memorandum, signed with the National Bank of the Republic of Kazakhstan, focuses on building out payment and digital financial infrastructure. The parties will explore opportunities to position Kazakhstan as a regional payments and fintech hub. This includes the potential localization of certain Binance regional operations, functions, and infrastructure in Kazakhstan, as well as the development of cross-border financial services.To support the practical implementation of these initiatives, Binance and the National Bank have created a roadmap outlining a phased approach to building payment infrastructure, licensing, and launching new payment products."The development of digital financial technologies and modern payment solutions is an important part of the transformation of Kazakhstan’s financial sector. We are interested in fostering innovation while maintaining the reliability of payment infrastructure and the stability of the financial system.“Cooperation with international technology companies enables us to exchange expertise and explore new solutions that can contribute to the further development of Kazakhstan’s payments market,” said Binur Zhalenov, Deputy Governor of the National Bank of the Republic of Kazakhstan.Building out payment infrastructure is one of the key elements in moving digital assets beyond their role as an investment instrument toward becoming a technology that users and businesses can apply in everyday financial transactions.Digital Assets as Part of the Investment InfrastructureThe third area of cooperation involves the Astana International Financial Centre (AIFC).The memorandum is aimed at strengthening cooperation under the Investment Tax Residency Programme and expanding the potential use of digital assets as part of Kazakhstan’s modern investment infrastructure."Expanding the AIFC Investment Tax Residency Programme to include digital assets is an important step in the development of Kazakhstan’s modern investment infrastructure. The AIFC continues to create conditions for attracting international investment through new instruments while maintaining a transparent and regulated environment aligned with current trends in digital finance. “This expands investors’ access to new opportunities within the AIFC ecosystem and contributes to the further development of Kazakhstan's digital asset market,” said Renat Bekturov, Governor of the Astana International Financial Centre.For Kazakhstan, this represents another step toward bringing traditional financial and investment infrastructure together with the opportunities offered by digital assets.Three Agreements, One EcosystemTogether, the memorandums cover the core elements of a digital financial ecosystem — digital assets, payment infrastructure, and investment — each reinforcing the others.“We see Kazakhstan not simply as a market for individual products, but as an important growth hub for digital finance in the region. The three memorandums cover the key elements of this ecosystem — digital assets, payments, and investments. “Together, they create a strong foundation for new products, the attraction of international capital, and the further development of the country’s technology infrastructure,” said Nurkhat Kushimov, General Manager of Binance Kazakhstan.For Binance, Kazakhstan remains one of the region’s key markets, where regulation is maturing alongside the implementation of new solutions. Kazakhstan, in turn, continues to build a digital financial ecosystem that brings together regulation, technology, payments, and investment, to move from individual initiatives toward a functioning digital economy.Further ReadingKazakhstan Launches Crypto Fund With Binance Kazakhstan as Strategic PartnerBinance Link Arrives in Kazakhstan: Powering the Next Phase of Crypto AdoptionBinance Kazakhstan: The First to Secure a Full Regulatory License From AFSA

Main TakeawaysAgent OS is Binance’s toolkit for connecting AI agents to trading, market data, wallets, and payments, with permissions you control and can revoke at any time.Binance has launched the Agent OS Mini Hackathon, a 60,000 USDC prize pool open to anyone building with AI agents on Binance, running through September 8, 2026, 23:59 UTC.Two tracks: build an AI agent using Agent OS for a share of $20,000 USDC, or connect your MCPs and trade to claim a piece of the $40,000 USDC pool.AI agents are already trading and building strategies, and now Binance is putting real money behind whoever builds the next one. The Agent OS Mini Hackathon is live, with a 60,000 USDC prize pool. Entries close September 8, 23:59 UTC. Whether you’re building your first agent or your fifth, here’s everything you need to get involved: what Agent OS does, how to pick the right tool, what other builders are already shipping with it, and everything you need to enter.What Is Binance Agent OS?Agent OS is Binance’s toolkit for connecting AI agents to trading, market data, wallets, and payments across TradFi and crypto. Developers can manage these workflows from a dedicated interface, with configurable permissions you can revoke at any time.The MCP server allows users to securely connect their agents to the deep liquidity in their Binance accounts, and currently supports trading and market data access, with on-chain and payment capabilities layered in through other Agent OS tools. It works with Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, ChatGPT, and self-built agents, with setup guides for other environments available on the Agent OS page.→ Introducing Binance Agent OSWhy Binance Built Agent OSBinance started as a crypto exchange, then expanded into a financial super app, bringing crypto, traditional finance, tokenized securities, and cross-border payments into one ecosystem. Agent OS is the next step: bringing AI agents into that same experience.AI agents make frequent, conditional decisions that don’t map well onto legacy financial systems built around business hours and multi-day settlement. Crypto and stablecoins, by contrast, support real-time settlement, which is exactly what agents need to act quickly. And with a global user base of over 300 million and infrastructure battle-tested for nearly a decade, Binance is built to support the live data, fast routing, and reliable execution agentic workflows depend on.→ Connecting AI Agents to the Financial Super AppWhich Tool Should You Start With?Agent OS is a set of tools, each built for a different part of the agent stack: the MCP server for trading and market data, Binance APIs for custom execution logic, Agentic Wallet for permission-controlled wallet interactions, x402 for agent-driven payments, and Skills Hub for ready-made capabilities you don’t have to build yourself.The right starting point depends on what you’re building. Start with MCP if you’re connecting an agent to live trading and market data. Use Agentic Wallet if you need wallet and on-chain access that is separate from your main funds. Building something that needs several of these at once? Combine them! You’re not locked into just one.→ Choosing the Right Tools for Your AI AgentWhat People Are Already BuildingAgent OS has been live for a matter of weeks, and users have put it to work across a wide range of use cases. Traders are wiring it into the tools they already use to act on the market, not just watch it. Looking for inspiration? Here’s what people are already doing with it. One user connected Agent OS to Codex and started trading BNB on Spot with nothing more than a request — every order still surfaced for approval before it executed. Another handed Claude live Binance market data and asked it to build a BTCUSDT strategy, getting back two genuine trade setups grounded in real order-book conditions. A third, running a crypto news page, pulls Binance data straight into a Discord workflow, turning raw prices and order books into a briefing without ever leaving the app.→ Different Ways People Are Already Using Binance Agent OSThe Agent OS Mini HackathonHere’s what you need to know to enter. Two tracks are open, with $60,000 USDC to be split.Track A rewards the best agent built with Agent OS, with $20,000 USDC on offer: $2,000 for 1st place, $1,500 for 2nd, $1,000 for 3rd, and $300 each for the next 50 winners. Track B is more straightforward. Connect to the MCP server and start trading. The first 10,000 eligible users to do so each receive $4 USDC, drawn from a $40,000 pool.Entries close September 8, 2026, at 23:59 UTC.How to enterFollow @Binance and repost the announcement.Reply or quote-repost with your submission. For Track A, that means a video or demo plus your GitHub, if applicable.Complete the survey.Eligibility: Please note that this isn’t an offer or solicitation to trade any financial product, and is not available to users in certain jurisdictions, including the US, UK, EEA, Hong Kong, Singapore, and any jurisdiction on Binance’s prohibited list.Final ThoughtsAgent OS is still early, a few weeks old, and people are already using it to trade, build strategies, and pull live data into their daily workflows. Early adoption has been driven by practical experimentation, with developers integrating Agent OS into their existing tools and processes.The Mini Hackathon is an opportunity to see what happens when more builders get their hands on it. Whether you’re picking a track to compete in or just connecting to the MCP server to see what it’s like, there’s a 60,000 USDC pool on offer and a short window to claim your share.We built Agent OS. What you build next is up to you.Further ReadingIntroducing Binance Agent OSConnecting AI Agents to the Financial Super App ExperienceBinance Agent OS Playbook: Choosing the Right ToolsDisclaimer: Your use of Binance AI, including any Binance AI Service, is at your own risk. It is provided to you on an “as is” and “as available” basis, without representation or warranty of any kind. You are solely responsible for all of your Prompts. Prompts may be used for training purposes. AI Inputs may include various unvetted third party sourced content. Any sourced content is provided “as is” without any guarantee. Binance may restrict or alter sourced content based on various compliance safety filters, however this is not absolute. Binance does not endorse or guarantee any AI Outputs. AI Outputs may include or reflect content, positions, views and opinions of third parties unknown to Binance, which may also include errors, biases, synthetic data and or outdated information. 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Main TakeawaysBitcoin rose from the mid-$60,000s to above $80,000 in late August, marking one of its sharpest weekly rallies in five years.A new DeFiLlama report shows spot activity grew faster than perpetual trading during the breakout, pointing to fresh buying as a key driver of the move.Binance accounted for 46% of spot volume across the exchanges tracked in the report as trading activity surged.Bitcoin spent the first 18 days of August trading between $62,000 and $66,000 before breaking out on August 19. By August 25, BTC had reached approximately $81,500, gaining close to 27% from its breakout base in one of its sharpest weekly rallies in five years.A new DeFiLlama report offers a closer look at what drove the move. Its data suggests the rally was supported by fresh buying rather than driven primarily by leverage: spot activity accelerated faster than perpetual trading, ETF inflows returned ahead of the breakout, and open interest declined when measured in BTC.The report shows that Binance accounted for 46% of spot volume across the exchanges tracked during the period. Overall, the findings provide a closer look at the market dynamics behind Bitcoin’s move above $80,000.Spot Buying Grew Faster Than Perpetual TradingThe balance between spot and perpetual trading offers one indication of how much of the rally was driven by direct buying versus leveraged positions.According to DeFiLlama, average daily spot volume increased 153% during the breakout period, reaching $50.79 billion. Perpetual volume also increased, but by 109%.Figure 1: Spot and perpetual trading volume before and during Bitcoin's August breakout. Source: DeFiLlama.As a result, the ratio of perpetual to spot volume fell 17.4%, from $6.02 in perpetual volume for every dollar of spot volume earlier in August to $4.97 during the breakout week.Bitcoin perpetual open interest also increased in dollar terms as BTC rose. However, when measured in BTC, the size of outstanding positions fell 8.5%, from approximately 341,000 BTC before the breakout to 312,000 BTC afterward.Perpetual trading remained elevated throughout the rally, but leverage did not grow at the same pace as spot demand. DeFiLlama’s data suggests fresh buying was an important part of Bitcoin’s move above $80,000.ETF Demand Returned Ahead of the RallyU.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs saw net outflows from August 10–14, but flows turned positive in the two trading sessions before Bitcoin broke out of its range. By the time of DeFiLlama’s analysis, net inflows for August had reached $3.05 billion month-to-date.Full-month data from Binance Research shows that the inflows continued after the breakout. Spot Bitcoin ETFs took in $3.52 billion in August, their strongest month since October 2025 and up from $172 million in July. The month included nine consecutive days of inflows from August 17–27.The reversal ahead of the breakout, followed by continued inflows later in the month, adds to the evidence that the rally was supported by fresh demand rather than primarily by leverage.Figure 2: U.S. spot Bitcoin ETF net flows in August 2026. Source: DeFiLlama.Binance Captured 46% of Tracked Spot VolumeA significant share of spot trading activity during the breakout took place on Binance. According to DeFiLlama, average daily spot volume on Binance rose from $4.75 billion before the breakout to $13.69 billion during it, an increase of 188%.Binance accounted for approximately 46% of spot volume across the centralized exchanges tracked in the report during the period.The rally comes as investors have more ways to gain exposure to the broader crypto market beyond digital assets themselves. Traditional-market options include companies involved in Bitcoin mining, crypto exchanges and brokers, payments and stablecoin infrastructure, custody, and digital asset treasuries.According to Binance Research, Binance users with exposure to both crypto and equities increased their allocation to crypto during the rally. Among this cohort, crypto’s share of combined crypto and equity holdings rose from 64% to 70% in the week to August 23, the largest weekly increase since direct equities launched on Binance in late May. The share reached 72% by August 30.Figure 3: Crypto-related traditional-market products tracked by Binance Research. Source: Binance Research.Final ThoughtsDeFiLlama’s findings show that fresh buying played an important role in Bitcoin’s August breakout, with Binance handling a significant share of the spot activity during the move.At the same time, Binance continues to broaden the markets available through its platform. Eligible users can access crypto-native products alongside traditional-market instruments, including direct stocks, stock options, stock and ETF perpetuals, tokenized securities such as bStocks, and commodity options, where available. Bringing these markets together within the same platform is part of Binance’s evolution into a financial super app.Further ReadingStock Options on Binance: Buy Calls and Puts on 1,000+ U.S. Stocks & ETFsInside the Numbers Behind Binance’s Financial Super AppNew on Binance Stocks – Smarter Charts, Financials, and Stock Transfers Disclaimer: Products mentioned above may not be available in your jurisdiction. Nest Trading Limited acts as your introducing broker and routes your orders for Securities to its clearing broker partner, Alpaca Securities LLC, for execution, clearing, settlement and custody. Binance does not handle or custody your Securities. Securities are subject to high market and liquidity risk and price volatility (particularly outside traditional market hours). 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. 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Main TakeawaysA rug pull happens when the people behind a token extract value from the project and leave other investors with significant losses.A token that looks popular is not always legitimate; trading activity, holder count, and social media buzz can all be misleading.The absence of a warning does not mean a token is safe: Risk warnings are one layer of protection and should support your research rather than replace it.Most people picture a rug pull as a developer suddenly vanishing with the money. In reality, it’s not always that obvious. A token can show a rising price, healthy trading volume, a verified contract, and even renounced ownership, yet still turn out to be a rug pull.In this blog, we’ll look at what a rug pull is, why they are difficult to detect, how scammers make a token appear popular, a real world case, what to check before buying a token, and why risk warnings matter.What Is a Rug Pull?Rug pull is a scam in which a crypto project’s developers or insiders abruptly withdraw liquidity, sell large token holdings, or abandon the project, leaving investors with losses. To understand how that becomes possible, it helps to start with liquidity.Liquidity is the pool of tokens and paired assets that allows people to buy and sell a token. When liquidity is deep, trades can be executed without moving the price much. When liquidity is thin or suddenly removed, selling either becomes very difficult or pushes the price down sharply.Two Common Rug Pull MethodsRemoving liquidity: An insider withdraws liquidity directly from the trading pool. The pool typically holds the token alongside another asset such as USDC, USDT, ETH or BNB. Once the paired asset is removed, holders may find it extremely difficult or impossible to sell their tokens.Dumping a large amount of tokens: Insiders or connected wallets sell a large volume of tokens in a coordinated way, often after demand has been artificially built up. The pool still holds both assets, but the amount of the paired asset available to buyers can fall sharply as selling continues. This can cause the price to collapse, leaving holders with tokens worth far less than they paid. These methods are not mutually exclusive. Scammers often combine both to extract as much value as possible.How Do Scammers Make a Token Look Popular?A token can appear popular even when very few real people are buying it. Scammers can manufacture activity to make a project seem far more successful than it is. Below are some of the most common methods.Wash trading: A scammer repeatedly buys and sells the token between wallets they control. This inflates trading volume and creates the impression of strong demand.Using multiple wallets: By controlling a large number of wallets and buying at around the same time, a scammer can make it look like many different people are entering the token. A high holder count does not necessarily reflect a high number of real investors.Copycat tokens and promotion: Scammers may copy the name, logo or ticker of a trusted project and promote the token across social media, Telegram, Discord or private messages. Users may believe they are buying a familiar token when they are in fact buying a completely different asset.High trading volume, a rising price, or a large holder count does not, on its own, confirm that a token is genuinely popular or legitimate.What Should You Check Before Buying a Token?Before buying a token, take a few minutes to look for warning signs:Liquidity: If the people behind the token can withdraw it at any time, selling may become difficult or impossible.Token distribution: If a small number of wallets hold most of the supply, they could sell anytime and cause the price to fall sharply.Unusual activity: Rapid growth in price, trading volume or holder count may look like strong demand, but it can also be manufactured.Promises and pressure: Treat guaranteed returns, urgent buy calls, or pressure to invest quickly as warning signs.Verification: Scammers can copy a token's name, symbol and logo, so always confirm the official contract address before buying.While no single check is foolproof, running through these steps can help you avoid the most common traps before you buy.If you still decide to proceed, consider making a small purchase and testing whether you can sell it. Keep in mind that a successful test sale does not prove a token is safe. It only confirms that the transaction worked at that moment, under those specific conditions.Why Are Rug Pulls Difficult to Detect?Rug pulls can be hard to identify because legitimate projects often display many of the same characteristics as fraudulent ones. Below, we go through some of these characteristics and explain why each one alone cannot confirm that a project is legitimate.Verified contract: The code is available to inspect, but transparency does not prove the people behind the project are honest.Renounced ownership: The developer may have given up one form of control, but ownership renouncement alone does not factor in token distribution or whether large holders can sell.Locked liquidity: This can reduce the risk of liquidity being removed, but it does not prevent insiders from selling a large supply of tokens, which can still collapse the price.Professional-looking website or social media accounts: Convincing websites and social media profiles are inexpensive to create.Large community: Followers and group members do not always represent real or independent users.High trading volume: The activity can be either genuine or artificially created.Legitimate projects can also have team wallets, early investors, scheduled token unlocks, market makers, and changing liquidity arrangements. While these features are often present in rug pulls, they are equally common in genuine projects, so their presence alone does not prove anything. What matters is how these wallets and funds behave, with higher risk when insiders hold too much supply, sell suddenly, remove liquidity or move funds across many wallets to obscure control.The important question is, therefore, whether the full picture makes sense.Risk Warnings MatterThe purpose of Binance Waller risk warnings is to give you a clearer view of potential risk before you trade. However, warnings can take time to surface and may shift as new information comes to light, which means the absence of one cannot certify that a project is safe. Security systems can examine a token's code, structure and on-chain behaviour in depth, but no system can see inside a project's intentions or predict what the people behind it will do tomorrow.If a warning appears, treat it as a reason to pause, and never let someone talk you past it. Think of a risk warning as one layer of protection – supporting your research, not replacing it.Real-Life Example of a Rug PullFigure 1: User’s recount of a rug pullHere, a user recounts their experience with a rug pull. They bought in after seeing it promoted in a Telegram group where only the moderator could post, which made the group look active while hiding whether anyone else was actually buying. The token was marketed as a quick opportunity to profit.A review later showed that the scammers controlled the liquidity pool. Once enough money had flowed in, they removed the liquidity, causing the token's value to collapse and leaving holders unable to sell.As you can see, a controlled social media group can make a token look popular without proving there is genuine demand. In this case, victims were influenced by coordinated promotion, but the group itself did not show whether independent buyers were actually interested in the token.Final ThoughtsRug pulls can be difficult to spot because they are not always obvious. A token may look legitimate, with an active community, rising prices, and successful trades before the scam becomes clear. But a rising price is not proof of real demand, more wallets do not always mean more real investors, locked liquidity does not prove a project is honest, and the absence of a warning does not mean a token is safe. Social pressure should never replace your own research. The safest decision is often to slow down, check the risks and decide whether the investment is truly worth taking.Spotting one rug pull helps, but scammers are always changing their playbook. Our Security Series explains different scam types in simple terms, so you can stay one step ahead.Further ReadingHow Crypto Scams Use Social EngineeringUnderstanding Honeypot Scams – How They Work, What to Watch Out For, and How Binance Wallet Prevents itHow Binance Security Prevented a $1.2M Governance Attack

Main TakeawaysTo celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival, Binance is launching a campaign where eligible VIP users in the APAC region stand a chance to win a Binance carry-on suitcase.To participate, choose your path: VIP upgrade (VIP 0-2 to VIP 3+), trading milestones (Spot or Futures), or Share to Win.If you are VIP 3 or higher at the start of the campaign, you may be able to claim your gift in My VIP → My Gifts, subject to eligibility and verification.Every great journey starts with the right companion. This Mid-Autumn, that companion is a Binance carry-on suitcase, designed to go wherever you go. No matter the distance, Binance is there for you every step of the way. Pack light, travel far, and let us handle the rest.To celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival, we invite eligible APAC-based VIP users and those working toward VIP status to qualify for the campaign by upgrading your VIP level, reaching trading milestones, or participating in a social media contest to receive a Binance VIP suitcase. Campaign Period: 2026-09-02 10:00 (UTC) to 2026-10-01 23:59 (UTC)[Join the Campaign Now]How to Qualify: Three Paths to Receive a VIP SuitcaseDuring the campaign, eligible users who successfully register and complete any one of the paths below may qualify to receive a Binance VIP suitcase, subject to eligibility and verification.Path 1: VIP upgradeUpgrade your VIP level to VIP 3 or higher during the campaign. To qualify, you must maintain VIP 3+ status through the end of the campaign.Why VIP 3?Improved fee rates: Unlock up to 60% off trading fees and reduce transaction costs as your trading volume grows.Higher account limits: Unlock higher limits for withdrawals, orders, API usage, and sub-accounts to support your evolving trading needs.A dedicated account manager: Unlock personalized support tailored to your trading profile and VIP experience.Eligibility for seasonal swag: Unlock exclusive gifts, events, and seasonal VIP perks beyond trading.Benefits may vary by account profile and region. Refer to the VIP page for the latest tier requirements and full benefit details.Path 2: Trading milestonesAchieve one of the following cumulative trading-volume milestones during the campaign period:Spot Trading: $6,000,000 in cumulative Spot trading volume.Futures Trading: $12,000,000 in cumulative Futures trading volume.Trading volume is calculated based on trades completed during the campaign. Zero-fee trading pairs are excluded. For Spot trading, OTC trades receive a 4x volume multiplier, and Stocks and bStocks receive a 3x multiplier for a limited time. Path 3: Share to WinParticipate in a social media contest for a chance to be one of 10 winners to receive a Binance VIP suitcase. Full details will be published on the campaign page on September 15, 2026.Already VIP 3 or Above? Your Gift May be Ready to ClaimEligible users who are already VIP 3 or higher at the start of the campaign (2026-09-02) may be able to claim the Mid-Autumn VIP gift via My VIP → My Gifts, subject to eligibility and verification.EligibilityThis campaign is available only to users in eligible APAC countries who have completed identity verification (KYC/KYB).You must click [Join Now] on the campaign page to participate.VIP 6 upgrades granted through the "VIP 6 for Six" campaign will also qualify for rewards, subject to a cap of the first 1,000 eligible active traders, defined as users demonstrating at least $1,000,000 in cumulative trading volume (Spot and/or Futures) since upgrade. All other VIP level upgrades granted via voucher or manual adjustment are not eligible.Reward limit: Each user may qualify for a maximum of one VIP Suitcase. If you qualify through multiple paths, you will receive the reward from the highest-priority path in the following order: Existing VIP 3+ gift > Path 1: VIP upgrade > Path 2: Trading milestones > Path 3: Share to Win.Full terms and conditions here.Final ThoughtsThis Mid-Autumn Festival, take the next step in your Binance VIP journey – and bring a travel companion designed to go the distance. Whether you upgrade to VIP 3+, reach an eligible Spot or Futures trading milestone, or enter the Share to Win contest, there are multiple ways to participate and potentially receive a Binance VIP suitcase.Register on the campaign page, select the path that best matches your goals, and complete the relevant requirements before the campaign ends. Already VIP 3 or above as of September 2, 2026? Visit My VIP → My Gifts to check whether your gift is available to claim. Eligibility, verification, reward availability, and full terms and conditions apply.[Join the Campaign Now]Further ReadingCelebrating Mid-Autumn: Trade or Upgrade to Claim Your VIP SuitcaseThe Next Era of Binance VIP: Expanding Access to Match Evolving User StrategiesWhat Is the Binance VIP Program? Benefits, Tiers and How to JoinBinance reserves the right in its sole discretion to amend or cancel this announcement at any time and for any reason without prior notice.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. You should carefully consider your investment experience, financial situation, investment objectives, and risk tolerance, and consult an independent financial adviser before making any investment. This material should not be construed as financial advice. For more information, see our Terms of Use and Risk Warning.

Main TakeawaysNvidia reported earnings on August 26, beating expectations again, and the market’s biggest repricing followed after the U.S. close.About 59% of NVDA’s next-day move was priced while U.S. markets were closed. Daily TradFi Perp volume on Binance crossed ~$1.6 billion on August 27, with Binance accounting for ~50% of total volume at peak, more than 9x its pre-earnings average. Instead of waiting for the opening bell, Binance users were able to capitalize after hours using products like TradFi Perps and bStocks.Every quarter, Nvidia earnings seem to double as a referendum on the entire AI market: compute, memory, optics, cloud, and power. When results land after the U.S. close, prices can move meaningfully before markets reopen.59% of NVDA’s Move Came While Markets Were ShutOf NVDA’s total next-day move, 59% was priced during the roughly 17 hours when U.S. stock exchanges are closed, a window that’s inaccessible for many users on traditional brokerage platforms. Figure 1: Post-earnings price action of the NVDAUSDT perpetual on Binance. Source: Binance Research, as of Aug 27, 2026After the August 26 earnings release, NVDA’s first reaction was −3.1%. Later in the off-hours session, it traded as high as +5.9%. By 9:00 PM ET, as Asian markets opened, NVDA was up about 1.6% over the prior hour, trading around $222.19. By 3:00 AM ET, it had reached the overnight high as European trading hours got underway.Binance Didn’t WaitOn August 27 – a day after NVDA earnings – daily TradFi Perp volume on Binance exceeded approximately $1.6 billion, which was more than 9x the pre-earnings average. At peak, Binance accounted for roughly 50% of total TradFi Perp volume across the entire market.The catalysts continued beyond earnings. On August 28, which was a Friday, comments from the Federal Reserve coincided with another round of volatility into the weekend. With traditional U.S. markets closed, traders continued adjusting positioning during off-hours, turning the weekend into a live test of off-hours price discovery.Across the highlighted weekend window, several related tickers also moved during off-hours. For example, UVXY rose approximately 3.2%, SK Hynix fell 3.0%, and a leveraged CSOP ETF declined 5.7%. By Monday’s open, those moves had extended to approximately +4.8%, −5.3%, and −11.4%, respectively. Two Ways to Get Off-Hour Exposure on BinanceDepending on your approach, Binance offers two tools for eligible traders to trade around events like earnings, where price discovery can continue long after the U.S. close.1. TradFi PerpsTradFi Perps are perpetual contracts on traditional financial assets, including stocks and ETFs. With a perpetual contract, you can gain exposure to the price movement of an asset without actually owning the underlying share. Unlike traditional futures contracts, there’s no expiry date, so you won’t have to worry about rolling over the position. Because TradFi Perps can be available outside traditional exchange hours, they can be used to express a view when earnings-driven moves happen after the U.S. close or before the next U.S. open. Note that TradFi Perps may include fees and funding mechanics, and, if leverage is used, they can amplify both gains and losses.Learn more about TradFi Perps →2. bStocks, Tokenized SecuritiesbStocks are tokenized securities designed to give 1:1 price exposure to selected U.S.-listed shares, issued as BEP-20 tokens on BNB Smart Chain. Underlying shares are held in a regulated custodian account, and bStocks are designed to reflect the referenced stock’s price movement.Unlike traditional stocks, bStocks trade 24/7 on Binance, so you're never locked out of the market when something moves after hours. Dividends are automatically reinvested via a token multiplier, and tokens can be withdrawn to any compatible BNB Smart Chain wallet. Learn more about bStocks →Both products are designed to help users take positions on moments like Nvidia's August earnings event. The right choice depends on your preferred instrument and whether you want derivatives exposure (perpetual contracts) or tokenized price exposure (bStocks).Final ThoughtsNvidia’s earnings week was a reminder that price action doesn’t always happen when markets are open. With a Binance account, users can respond to moments like this with the flexibility of TradFi Perps or the crypto-native familiarity of bStocks, without waiting for the next opening bell. Before using either product, we encourage users to learn how these products work and to do their research before investing any capital.Further ReadingAs Wall Street Extends Trading Hours, Binance Retains Its 24/7 EdgeBinance Never Sleeps: The AI Earnings That Landed After the Bell168 Hours a Week: How Binance is Extending TradFi AccessDisclaimer: 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. TradFi Perps are subject to high market risk and price volatility (particularly outside traditional market hours). You may be called upon at short notice to make additional margin deposits or interest payments. If the required margin deposits or interest payments are not made within the prescribed time, your collateral may be liquidated. Moreover, you will remain liable for any resulting deficit in your account and interest charged on your account. All of your margin balance may be liquidated in the event of adverse price movement. Past performance is not a reliable predictor of future performance. TradFi Perps do not represent ownership of the relevant underlying asset. Before trading, you should make an independent assessment of the appropriateness of the transaction in light of your own objectives and circumstances, including the risks and potential benefits. Consult your own advisers, where appropriate. This information should not be construed as financial or investment advice. To learn more about how to protect yourself, visit our Responsible Trading page. For more information, see our Terms of Use, Clearing Rules, Clearing Procedures, Contract Specifications and Risk Warning.bStocks Tokenized Securities are classified as Certificates representing certain Financial Instruments (paragraph 92, Schedule 1 to FSMR). bStocks are not stocks or shares and bStocks do not allow holders to directly own a share or stock in the underlying listed company. bStocks do not represent any affiliation with the underlying asset's issuer. bStocks are offered through an Approved Prospectus in the ADGM and are not offered in any other jurisdiction. No public offer is made outside of the ADGM. Tokenized Securities are available only to eligible users in permitted jurisdictions on a secondary market basis only. It is your sole responsibility to ensure that accessing and trading Tokenized Securities is lawful in your jurisdiction before proceeding. 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Main TakeawaysBinance Agent OS is a platform and toolkit that brings Binance capabilities into the AI tools and agents people already use every day.It gives AI agents access to Binance market data, trading, wallets, and payments through the Binance MCP server and other Agent OS tools.Three Binance users share how they’re already putting Agent OS to work.It’s already hard for a lot of us to imagine life without AI agents. In just a few years, they’ve gone from simple chatbots to tools we use every day. They can search for information, work across platforms, and take action on our behalf.Traders are already using AI agents to research markets and support their decisions. Binance Agent OS takes this further, giving them access to live Binance market data and account information, and the ability to take trading actions through AI. Users stay in control by setting permissions and limits on what AI can access and do.We spoke with Binance users already integrating Agent OS into their workflows – from trading and market analysis to crypto research and content creation – to see what that looks like in practice.1. Trading Through Your AI AgentA user who goes by the name Crypto Eagle connected Binance Agent OS to Codex to trade on Binance through the AI tool. They used the setup to buy BNB on Spot using USDT, simply by asking Codex to make the trade.Codex prepared the order and showed the details for review. Once Crypto Eagle approved it, the trade went through, and the AI agent returned the amount purchased, price, fee, and updated balance.Crypto Eagle also uses the setup for other account and trading tasks, including converting USDT to BNB, selling BNB back to USDT, and moving funds between Spot and USDⓈ-M Futures.“For me, the future is controlled automation: let AI prepare and act, but keep permission with the user.”2. Building a Trading Strategy With Live Binance DataGhostWriter, as he’s known, connected Agent OS to Claude, giving it access to live Binance market data. He then asked Claude to use that data to build a BTCUSDT trading strategy based on current market conditions.Claude pulled order-book data and recent price movements through Agent OS and came back with two possible approaches: wait for a pullback around specific levels, or consider a continuation trade if the price provided further confirmation.“This is the first time I’ve seen an AI strategy built from Binance liquidity, not from a model guessing the market.”GhostWriter could then use the analysis to inform his own trading decision.3. Turning Binance Market Data Into ContentAnother user, called CryptoVerse, runs a crypto news page and uses AI agents inside Discord to research the market and prepare content. Before Agent OS, getting Binance data into that workflow meant checking Binance and other dashboards, collecting the relevant information, and passing it back to the AI manually.Now, Binance market data can be pulled directly into the same workflow. For a market update, CryptoVerse asked their AI to retrieve key data on BTC, ETH, and BNB, including prices, recent market movements, and order-book data. The AI then compared the three markets and turned the information into a short briefing.“With Agent OS, I stayed inside the same Discord session. I asked the question, Binance supplied the market information, and my AI organized it into something useful.”CryptoVerse also uses Agent OS for more in-depth content research, combining Binance market data with wider context to prepare reusable datasets and potential angles for future content.What Will You Use Agent OS For?These are just three examples of what you can do with Agent OS. You could also use it to monitor your portfolio, track market movements, compare assets, check your balances, or prepare trades for your approval.When markets move quickly, having current data matters. Agent OS gives your AI direct access to Binance market data, from prices and order books to recent trading activity. Instead of switching to Binance to check that information yourself, you can bring it directly into the AI workflow you’re already using. With the permissions you set, your AI can also take supported actions on Binance.Agent OS works with Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, ChatGPT, and VS Code, so you can bring Binance into the AI environment that works for you.Ready to put it to work? Get started today by visiting the Agent OS page.Further ReadingIntroducing Binance Agent OS: Built for AI Agent IntegrationBinance Agent OS Playbook: Choosing the Right Tools for Your AI AgentHow Binance is Connecting AI Agents to the Financial Super App ExperienceDisclaimer: Your use of Binance AI, including any Binance AI Service, is at your own risk. It is provided to you on an “as is” and “as available” basis, without representation or warranty of any kind. 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Main TakeawaysStock options on Binance are now live, offering contracts on selected U.S.-listed stocks and ETFs that settle physically in real shares.Trading stock options on Binance costs a commission fee of $0.60 per contract with clear, transparent pricing: no minimum fee, no platform fees, and no spread when converting between USDC and USD.Stock options are funded and traded directly from your Funding Wallet, putting your entire portfolio of crypto, stocks, and commodities in one place.Over the past year, Binance has been steadily building a new experience where users can trade any asset, across an entire universe of financial products. Last month we launched commodity options for Gold (XAUUSDT) and Silver (XAGUSDT). Today, we take a huge step in building out our TradFi suite by launching options contracts on over 1,000 selected U.S.-listed stocks and ETFs, with more to be added in the future.Through one Binance account, you can now trade a wide range of crypto, stocks, and commodities across Spot, Convert, Futures, and Options.Contract Settlement Happens in Real SharesStock options on Binance settle physically instead of in cash. These are real shares custodied by Alpaca on behalf of Binance users. For example, if you exercise a call, the underlying U.S.-listed shares are delivered to your account. If you exercise a put, you deliver those shares. $0.60 Fee per ContractAt Binance, we’ve always worked to make financial products as accessible and inclusive as possible. Stock options are priced with this commitment in mind: a commission fee of $0.60 per contract, with zero platform fees, no minimum fee, and exercise fees absorbed by Binance. We’d also like to emphasize that there are no hidden costs in the background. Other platforms may include a spread when converting between USDC and USD to trade stock options, Binance covers that cost for you at the point of trade. For the most up-to-date information on fees, you can refer to our fee schedule.How to Fund & Trade Stock Options on BinanceFor a seamless user experience, stock options are funded and traded from your Funding Wallet, the same wallet you already use to trade crypto on Binance. There’s no separate wallet you need to set up nor are there any extra transfer steps to take before placing an order. Trade all your assets, whether it’s crypto or stock options, side-by-side on the same app.Supported quote currencies are BNB, USDT, USDC, U and USD1, and balances held in local fiat are converted at the point of trade. Stock options on Binance follow U.S. market hours, so keep that in mind when planning your trades. Most U.S. equity options are available from 9:30 AM to 4:00 PM ET, with certain ETF/ETN options trading until 4:15 PM ET.How to Place Your First Stock Options Order in 5 StepsOpen the stock’s chart view. Search for a U.S.-listed stock or ETF in the Binance app — NVDA, for example — then open the stock page and tap the candlestick icon.Tap the Options tab. If the stock supports options trading, an Options tab appears in the chart view. If you do not see the tab, options are not available for that stock yet.Enable options access. The first time you open Options, complete the Options Suitability Quiz and sign the disclaimer. If you have not enabled Stock trading yet, you can enable Stocks and Stock Options together in the same step.Choose your contract. Select a call or a put, then choose an expiry date and a strike price from the options chain.Place a limit order. Enter your limit price and the number of contracts, then tap [Buy]. Stock options currently support limit orders only, so your order will fill only if the market reaches your price.A New Era of Financial FreedomBy bringing stock options to the same platform where users already trade crypto and commodities, we're removing the walls that have traditionally kept these markets separate. Beyond Options, every trading product you need is conveniently available in a single tap, including Spot, Convert, and Futures.Final ThoughtsStock options on Binance are live and ready for you to explore. To start, the product currently supports buying long calls and puts. We have plans to launch writing and short exposure in the future. This helps users get comfortable with options trading before diving into more complex strategies. With long calls and puts, your risk is clearly defined before you click buy. The maximum amount you can lose on a given trade is capped at the premium you pay.Further ReadingA Beginner's Guide to Trading Gold and Silver Options Inside the Numbers Behind Binance’s Financial Super App168 Hours a Week: How Binance is Extending TradFi AccessDisclaimer: Nest Trading Limited acts as your introducing broker and routes your orders for Stock Options to its clearing broker partner, Alpaca Securities LLC, for execution, clearing, settlement and custody. Binance does not handle or custody your Securities. Stock Options are contracts that give you the right, but not the obligation, to buy or sell the underlying Securities at a specified price on or before a specified expiration date. You pay a Premium to acquire this right. Stock Options do not represent ownership of the underlying Securities. Stock Options can be exercised at any time before the cut-off time on the relevant expiration date. You are solely responsible for monitoring your open Stock Option positions and determining whether to exercise them. To exercise a Stock Option, you must submit an exercise instruction through the Binance Platform. If you do not submit an exercise instruction before the cut-off, your Stock Option will be subject to auto-liquidation, meaning that your position will be sold on a best-efforts basis before the close of trading. Your Stock Option may expire without value and you may lose the entire Premium paid. Even if your Stock Option is in-the-money at expiration, it will not be automatically exercised unless you have submitted an exercise instruction.Stock Options are subject to high market and liquidity risk and price volatility. The value of your investment may go down or up and you may not get back the amount invested. Stock Options are only available for trading during regular market hours. 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. Before trading, you should make an independent assessment of the appropriateness of the transaction in light of your own objectives and circumstances, including the risks and potential benefits. You should not trade Stock Options unless you understand the nature of the product, including how options are exercised, the risks of auto-liquidation and the consequences of failing to act before the relevant cut-off time. Consult your own advisers, where appropriate. This information should not be construed as financial or investment advice. Binance may receive payment for order flow remuneration for directing your orders. To learn more about how to protect yourself, visit our Responsible Trading page. 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Main TakeawaysBinance OTC volumes are up 2.4x year-on-year through the end of July, reflecting growing institutional demand for discreet, high-quality liquidity.The OTC desk executed a $43 million ETH/BTC conversion, settled in one block, and remains a key route for institutional counterparties where self-serve access is restricted.With the recent VIP Program update, OTC trades count 4x toward your 30-day spot requirement. Every $1 of OTC volume counts as $4 across the full suite, making OTC one of the fastest paths to VIP.In this seventh edition of the Binance OTC & Execution Services Monthly Digest, we recap a July marked by stability without strong follow-through. Rate expectations stayed restrictive, ETF flows turned positive after two months of heavy outflows, and BTC held its range through renewed geopolitical stress, but market participation stayed muted. We also highlight Binance OTC activity, where year-to-date volumes are up 141% year-on-year, share what client flows reveal about institutional positioning, and examine a $43 million ETH/BTC conversion that showcases our liquidity access and execution capabilities for large block trades.What’s New at Binance OTC & Execution ServicesTrading volumes across Binance OTC & Execution Services are up 141% year to date through July 2026 compared with the same period last year, reflecting roughly 2.4x growth and rising institutional demand for discreet, high-quality liquidity.The desk now supports large-volume fast redemptions across four Earn assets: WBETH, BNSOL, RWUSD, and BFUSD. Clients holding these positions can access liquidity on demand, without waiting for standard redemption windows.We recently published a step-by-step YouTube walkthrough covering the full OTC suite, from Spot RFQ, IOI and Execution to the Binance Execution Services dashboard and new OTC VIP tiers. Whether you are new to OTC or already active on the desk, it’s the fastest way to see how trades move from request to execution and how the tools work in practice.July 2026 Crypto Market Analysis: Stabilization Without Strong Follow-throughMacro and Geopolitics: A Hawkish Start, a Steadier FinishJuly started with risk-off sentiment. The June FOMC minutes reinforced the higher-for-longer rate outlook, with 9 of 18 officials projecting a 2026 hike and the median end-2026 rate forecast rising to 3.8% from 3.4%. Policymakers also began to frame AI capex as a potential inflation driver, rather than a productivity boost.At the same time, softer June payrolls, at +57,000 versus the expected +110,000, pointed in the opposite direction and suggested the economy may be losing momentum. Geopolitical pressure added another layer of uncertainty as the U.S.–Iran ceasefire collapsed, retaliatory strikes followed, and WTI moved back above $80 on renewed Strait of Hormuz risk.Despite the macro noise, crypto remained range-bound, while gold fell to a two-month low near $4,100. A softer mid-month CPI print pulled yields lower and gave risk assets a short-lived tailwind. By month-end, the July FOMC held rates at 3.50% to 3.75%, exactly as markets expected. That removed the risk of a hawkish surprise, but did not provide a fresh liquidity boost.Sentiment, Flows, and Participation: A Return, Then a FlatteningAfter roughly $8.95 billion of outflows across May and June, spot Bitcoin ETFs reversed the trend with $510 million of inflows in early July. Momentum continued mid-month, with around $450 million into BTC products and $94 million into Ethereum products, bringing combined inflows to about $544 million, with 83% going to BTC. By the final week, flows flattened to a small net outflow of around $46 million, suggesting capitulation flows had dried up rather than restarted. BTC also showed resilience, holding the $62,000 to $65,000 range through geopolitical stress before rising from roughly $63,000 to $66,000 in the week to July 23.Market Structure and BTC OutlookThe month ended in a consolidating market rather than a clear recovery, with BTC implied volatility near 40%. After the recent deleveraging, forced sellers appeared largely exhausted, but buyers were not yet willing to chase the market higher.Risk appetite was selective and theme-driven. Robinhood Chain sparked a sharp re-rating in ARB, AAVE stood out after its Monad deployment, and progress on GENIUS Act rulemaking improved compliance clarity without amounting to official support.Overall, the desk views this as a late-stage bottoming process and remains selectively constructive. Stronger confirmation would require sustained inflows, sentiment moving back toward neutral, and broader market participation.Institutional Crypto OTC Trading Flows From an asset perspective, BTC and ETH remain the most consistent sources of institutional block demand, followed by SOL, which has also seen steady activity. Stablecoins continue to anchor flows, with more than 80% of our top-10 volume coming from clients off-ramping stables to fiat, overwhelmingly USDT to USD.In addition, we continue to see selective but meaningful demand across liquid altcoins. In the month of July we traded:Majors: BTC, DOGE, ETH, SOL, TRX, UNIStables: AEUR, BFUSD, USDC, USDTAlts: APT, DATA, DF, EUR, FTM, GHST, NEAR, NKN, NXPC, PYTH, REI, SUI, ZEC, ZRO $43 Million ETH/BTC Crypto Conversion: An ETH Accumulation Case StudyThis month, our desk executed a $43 million ETH/BTC conversion for a repeat client that wanted to buy ETH using BTC held on balance. The desk was able to quote the full $43 million as a single ticket and settle it in one block.For an ETH/BTC trade of this size that exceeds typical daily trading volume, executing on an order book could have caused notable price slippage and required significant time to complete. Instead, our desk priced, confirmed and settled the trade directly with the client within an hour, with the client dealing with a named trader throughout.This shows where the OTC desk adds value beyond execution mechanics. For institutional counterparties whose regulatory footprint keeps them away from order book trading, the desk acts as a direct access layer for large, discreet liquidity.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. Clients can benefit from: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 ticketsFast-Track Your VIP Status Through OTC TradingOTC trading volume counts toward your VIP tier – at a 4x multiplier. In other words, every $1 you trade through Binance OTC & Execution Services counts as $4 toward your 30-day spot volume requirement. This applies across the entire OTC suite, from crypto-to-crypto to stablecoin-to-fiat and everything in between – making OTC one of the fastest ways to reach, and keep, your VIP status.Here's how much OTC volume you need to qualify for each tier:VIP Level30-Day Spot Volume RequirementOTC Equivalent (with 4x Multiplier)VIP 1$1,000,000$250,000VIP 2$5,000,000$1,250,000VIP 3$20,000,000$5,000,000VIP 4$75,000,000$18,750,000VIP 5$150,000,000$37,500,000VIP 6$400,000,000$100,000,000VIP 7$800,000,000$200,000,000VIP 8$2,000,000,000$500,000,000VIP 9$4,000,000,000$1,000,000,000For example, executing $250,000 in OTC volume within a rolling 30-day period – combined with the required BNB holding – is enough to qualify for VIP 1 status. Every OTC pair counts, whether you're trading BTC, ETH, stablecoin-to-fiat, or long-tail altcoins.Note: This excludes trades where the user acted as a liquidity provider for OTC transactions, as well as fiat-to-stablecoin, stablecoin-to-fiat, and stablecoin-to-stablecoin pairs.Final ThoughtsJuly was a month of stabilization rather than full recovery. Forced sellers appeared largely exhausted, capitulation flows faded, and BTC held its range through geopolitical stress. Buyers remained selective, breadth stayed narrow, and spot volumes were subdued, but compressed volatility into month-end leaves the market well positioned for a sharper move in either direction.Client flow reflected the same patience. Stablecoin off-ramping to fiat led turnover, while steady demand across BTC, ETH, SOL and liquid altcoins showed institutions staying engaged. Against a slower market backdrop, our volumes still grew 141% year-on-year, underscoring continued demand for discreet, institutional-grade execution. From large single-ticket trades to steady liquidity across a broad asset set, Binance OTC & Execution Services remains ready to deliver.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 blog, contact your account manager or reach out to our OTC desk directly.Further ReadingBinance VIP Program Criteria Update: Lower VIP 3 Holding Threshold and Integrate OTC Trading Volume into Spot VolumeBinance Execution Services Gets a Major Upgrade: Faster, Smarter OTC Trading – All in One DashboardBinance OTC Monthly Insights - July 2026Disclaimer: 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. There is no guarantee that an IOI will result in a binding transaction. An IOI is not a market order. Binance does not act as your adviser or agent. Before trading, you should make an independent assessment of the appropriateness of the transaction in light of your own objectives and circumstances, including the risks and potential benefits. Consult your own advisers, where appropriate. This information should not be construed as financial or investment advice. To learn more about how to protect yourself, visit our Responsible Trading page. For more information, see our Terms of Use and Risk Warning.

Main TakeawaysbStocks are tokenized 1:1 U.S. stocks that trade 24/7 on Binance, giving users indirect price exposure to equities like Tesla and Nvidia without a separate brokerage account.A new report from Delphi Digital found that bStocks scaled faster in its first month than any other tokenized stock product, based on data through the end of July.Volume grew from $1.8 billion in the first 24 days to $14.7 billion by the second month.On August 25, Delphi Digital, a crypto research and analytics firm, published a new report looking at the growth dynamics of tokenized stock platforms and instruments. Using data through the end of July, the report found that bStocks, Binance’s tokenized stock product, scaled faster in its first month than any other product tracked. Here’s what the data from the report shows.How Fast bStocks GrewSince launching in June, Binance’s bStocks has out-scaled every other tokenized stock product on the market. Per the report, it did $1.8 billion in volume within its first 24 days alone, then climbed to $14.7 billion by month two, the fastest growth of any product in the report over that stretch. That’s a sign of real, broad-based demand: bStocks has already captured 28% of total tokenized stock value outstanding among the market’s largest issuers, built from a standing start in a fraction of the time it took the competition to get there.Who’s Trading bStocksDelphi’s findings point to bStocks’ growth so far being driven almost entirely by users who were already in crypto. At the latest cohort breakdown, 88% of bStocks buyers already held other digital assets before trading their first tokenized stock.That’s a different story from the traditional path into equities. Rather than discovering stocks through a separate brokerage, they’re building their first equity positions in the same app they already use for crypto. It’s a small but telling sign of what accessible TradFi can look like in practice: for a growing number of users, tokenized stocks are simply the easiest way into equities they’ve found so far.Execution Stays Stable, Even After HoursbStocks trade 24/7, but being open isn’t the same as working well. Many after-hours markets suffer from thin order books and wider price swings once the main session ends, exactly the kind of trade-off a global, always-on product needs to avoid.Delphi’s report put that to the test. Placing the same $100,000 NVDA order once during U.S. market hours and once after the close, the report found that how much the price moved against the order – a cost known as slippage – stayed in a similar 0.3% to 0.5% range both times. Pricing barely moved, whether the underlying U.S. market was open or shut.That stability comes down to how the order book is built. The same $100,000 order filled across 53 separate price levels on Binance, with no single order making up more than a small fraction of the total. A deep, evenly spread book like that means large trades don’t have to move far to get filled, in session or after hours.Final ThoughtsThe numbers in the report back up what bStocks users are already experiencing: fast, easy access to equities, without leaving the app they already use for crypto. By Delphi’s count, that combination scaled faster than any other tokenized stock platform on the market, and it’s crypto-native users leading the way.That’s the point of Binance’s financial super app: one place to trade, whether that’s crypto or stocks, without extra accounts, apps, or hours to work around. If bStocks’ early growth is any sign, removing that friction is exactly what users have been waiting for.Further ReadingIntroducing bStocks – Trade and Hold Tokenized 1:1 U.S. Stocks on BinanceInside the Numbers Behind Binance’s Financial Super AppWhy Tokenized Securities? A Look at bStocks vs. Traditional StocksDisclaimer: Nest Trading Limited acts as your introducing broker and routes your orders for Securities to its clearing broker partner, Alpaca Securities LLC, for execution, clearing, settlement and custody. Binance does not handle or custody your Securities. Securities are subject to high market and liquidity risk and price volatility (particularly outside traditional market hours). 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. Before trading, you should make an independent assessment of the appropriateness of the transaction in light of your own objectives and circumstances, including the risks and potential benefits. Consult your own advisers, where appropriate. This information should not be construed as financial or investment advice. Binance may receive payment for order flow remuneration for directing your orders. To learn more about how to protect yourself, visit our Responsible Trading page. For more information, see our Terms of Use, Securities Trading Product Terms and Risk Warning.bStocks Tokenized Securities are classified as Certificates representing certain Financial Instruments (paragraph 92, Schedule 1 to FSMR). bStocks are not stocks or shares and bStocks do not allow holders to directly own a share or stock in the underlying listed company. bStocks do not represent any affiliation with the underlying asset's issuer. bStocks are offered through an Approved Prospectus in the ADGM and are not offered in any other jurisdiction. No public offer is made outside of the ADGM. Tokenized Securities are available only to eligible users in permitted jurisdictions on a secondary market basis only. It is your sole responsibility to ensure that accessing and trading Tokenized Securities is lawful in your jurisdiction before proceeding. Accessing this product from a jurisdiction in which it is prohibited or restricted does not create any liability or obligation on the part of Binance. We may restrict, suspend, reject, cancel, or unwind access or transactions if we determine, in our sole discretion, that your access or transaction may breach applicable law, product restrictions, eligibility criteria, sanctions requirements, or the relevant offering documents. No information displayed in connection with Tokenized Securities is intended as an offer, solicitation, promotion, recommendation, or invitation to buy or sell securities in any jurisdiction. Tokenized Securities are not offered, sold, distributed, made available, or accessible in the United States or to, or for the account or benefit of, U.S. persons. The Tokenized Securities have not been and will not be registered under the U.S. Securities Act of 1933 or any U.S. state securities laws and a public offering of bStocks will not be conducted in the United States or any other jurisdiction (other than the ADGM). By accessing this product, you represent and warrant that you are not a U.S. person, are not located in the United States, are not acting for the account or benefit of any U.S. person, and will not access, purchase, sell, transfer, redeem, or otherwise transact in Tokenized Securities from within the United States. To learn more about how to protect yourself, visit our Responsible Trading page. For more information, see the Terms of Use, Exchange Rules, Exchange Procedures, relevant Prospectus, Admission to Trading Notice and Risk Warning.

Main TakeawaysBinance Agent OS gives developers multiple ways to connect AI agents to Binance, with dedicated tools for trading, payments, wallet interactions, and more.The right starting point depends on what you need from your agent. You can start with one tool and combine others as your requirements grow.You’re always in control of the permissions and limits assigned to each agent, and can revoke access at any time.Binance Agent OS gives developers multiple ways to connect AI agents to Binance. The right approach depends on what your agent needs to do, how much control you want, and where you’re building it.Agent OS is the broader platform and toolkit. Its MCP server, APIs, Agentic Wallet, x402, and Skills Hub each address a different part of the agent stack. You can start with one tool or combine several as your requirements expand. We worked with our AI development team to identify useful starting points, example use cases, and tips for building effective agents on Binance.Start with Your Use CaseIf you want to…Start with…Connect an agent to trading and live market data MCP serverBuild custom execution logic or backend workflowsBinance APIsAdd permission-controlled wallet interactionsAgentic WalletEnable agent-driven payments and settlementBinance x402Add capabilities without building from scratchBinance Skills HubBuild and configure your agent within Binance’s own ecosystemBinance Ai ProBuild an agent with several capabilitiesCombination of Agent OS toolsTrading and Live Market Data: Binance MCP ServerThe Binance MCP Server implements the Model Context Protocol, allowing AI agents to plug into supported Binance tools.It currently supports a focused set of trading and market data capabilities. For workflows that require greater customization – for instance, payment and on-chain functionality – developers can use other Agent OS products while MCP support continues to expand.Controlled Access to Web3: Agentic WalletAgentic Wallet is designed for agents that need wallet and on-chain capabilities. Each Agentic Wallet is a separate, MPC-secured wallet created under your Binance account and authorized specifically for an AI agent. Your main wallet stays untouched. From a dedicated dashboard, you can set boundaries such as spending limits and token scope, then monitor assets and activity in real time. Inside those boundaries, agents can handle token transfers, swaps, limit orders, and other on-chain operations. Payments for Agents and Applications: Binance x402x402 is an HTTP-native payment protocol for agents and applications. When an agent requests a paid resource, the service responds with an HTTP 402 status and its payment requirements. The agent signs an authorization off-chain, and a facilitator verifies and settles the payment on-chain without taking custody of the funds.The x402 Payment Skill lets your Agentic Wallet handle this flow without any custom payment code. It can parse the request, present the price for confirmation, sign the authorization, retry the request, and return the result – all in one seamless flow.For developers offering paid APIs or services, Binance’s B402 infrastructure supports per-request billing and gas-sponsored settlement on BNB Smart Chain. It also allows for agent-to-agent payments, broadening the payments ecosystem well beyond human users.Curated Skill Library: Binance Skills HubBinance Skills Hub is an open marketplace of curated, security-reviewed skills that agents use through natural language. You don’t need to build these capabilities from scratch. Skills Hub gives you a ready-made library you can plug into your agent right away. Available skills span:Spot, Futures, and Convert tradingWallet operationsDEX swapsMarket intelligenceToken and address analysisContract security checksPayments and P2PBuild a Setup that Works for YouAgent OS gives developers one place to discover and connect Binance’s agent capabilities, with plug-and-play tools for different use cases. MCP currently supports trading and market data. For on-chain activity and payments, you can layer in Agentic Wallet, x402, Skills Hub, or Binance APIs as needed. As MCP support expands, more of these capabilities will become available through a single connection.Start with the tools your agent needs today, then add more as your use case grows. You remain in control of the permissions and limits assigned to each agent and can change or revoke access at any time. To get started, visit the Binance Agent OS page and find the right entry point for your build.Further ReadingIntroducing Agent OS: Built for AI Agent Integration How Binance is Connecting AI Agents to the Financial Super App ExperienceHow Binance AI Pro Changes What Traders Can Do in The MarketDisclaimer: Your use of Binance Ai, including any Binance Ai Service, is at your own risk. It is provided to you on an “as is” and “as available” basis, without representation or warranty of any kind. You are fully responsible for all of your Prompts. AI Inputs may include various unvetted third party sourced content. Any sourced content is provided “as is” without any guarantee. Binance may restrict or alter sourced content based on various compliance safety filters, however this is not absolute. Binance does not endorse or guarantee any AI Outputs. AI Outputs may include or reflect content, positions, views and opinions of third parties unknown to Binance, which may also include errors, biases, synthetic data and or outdated information. Any AI Output should not be solely relied on for decision making. AI Outputs do not constitute any kind of advice by Binance nor any other intermediary services. Binance Ai may use or make available third party AI Tools without any guarantee and subject to third party terms. Where AI Tools are configured by yourself or a third-party, you indemnify Binance against all liability. Binance does not guarantee any AI Tools. Binance Ai may respond to your requests, but without any guarantee that your request will be fulfilled satisfactorily or at all. Digital asset prices can be volatile. You are solely responsible for your investment decisions and Binance is not liable for any losses. Use of Binance Ai may be subject to additional Binance Product Terms, where applicable. For more information, see our Terms of Use, Risk Warning and AI Policy and Terms.

Main TakeawaysCrypto cards don’t all work the same way. Some classify your deposit as a sale – transferring control to the card company – while others keep it in your account.A deposit-equals-sale model can strip your control, may potentially trigger capital gains tax the moment you load your card, and may leave you an unsecured creditor if the company fails.However, the Binance Card uses an account-linked model. Your crypto stays in your Binance account until you make a purchase, at which point the required amount is converted to USDC and settled with the card issuer. Your assets on Binance are subject to Binance's security measures.More people are paying with bitcoin, ethereum, and stablecoins through crypto cards than ever before. But before you pick a crypto card to load, and tap it for your everyday purchases, there’s an important question worth asking:What happens to my crypto when I deposit it into my card?The answer depends entirely on which card you use, and the difference could cost you more than you think, both in control and in taxes. In this piece, we’ll break down the two different ways crypto cards handle your deposit, what each one means for your control and might mean for your tax bill, and how to check which model your card uses so you can make an informed choice.Two Common Deposit Models: Sale Versus Account-LinkedEvery crypto card has to answer one basic question behind the scenes: when you load crypto onto it, what happens to that crypto? The answer determines who controls your assets, when you may be taxed, and what you’re entitled to if something goes wrong.Broadly, there are two fundamentally different ways a card can handle your deposit. On the surface they look identical: you load crypto, you get a balance, you spend. But underneath, that difference is where the real consequences hide.Model 1: Deposit = SaleSome cards classify your deposit as a “sale.” The moment you transfer crypto onto the card, you no longer control it, the card company does. Your crypto becomes their asset, and you simply receive a balance to spend.Model 2: Deposit = Control Crypto Through Your AccountYour crypto stays in your account, and the card draws from your balance only when you actually make a purchase. There is no transfer of crypto to the card company in advance.The Binance Card uses Model 2. Your crypto remains in your Binance account until a purchase triggers conversion and settlement. Who Actually Controls Your Crypto?When a card treats your deposit as a sale, control transfers to the card company. Your assets move from your wallet to theirs, and you become an unsecured creditor — in some cases with what the company owes you capped as low as $500. If that company mismanages funds, gets hacked, or goes under, you’re at the back of the line to recover anything.The ‘Deposit Equals Sale’ Model Creates Tax ExposureThis is not tax advice. Tax treatment depends on your jurisdiction and you should consult a tax professional. That said, under a deposit-equals-sale model, a deposit may be treated as a taxable sale of the underlying crypto. If your crypto has appreciated since you bought it, you may have realized a capital gain before you've even purchased a single thing.Here’s how it could play out:You buy 1 bitcoin at $30,000.The price of 1 bitcoin rises to $70,000.When you deposit the same 1 bitcoin into your card, it may be classified as a sale of bitcoin.You now owe capital gains tax on $40,000 of profit, just for loading your card.You later spend from the card, triggering a second taxable event.One deposit and one spend now constitute two taxable events – effectively double taxation. There are no tax forms or cost-basis reporting either, which leaves you to reconcile every single deposit with your tax professional on your own.The Binance Card works differently. It does not require you to transfer your crypto to the card company in advance. Your crypto stays in your Binance account, and conversion only happens when you make a purchase. You should consult a tax professional about the tax treatment of spending crypto via the card in your jurisdiction.Binance Card Puts Its Terms in Plain SightControl and tax treatment vary meaningfully across providers, but very few cards make it easy to find out which model you're actually signing up for. Deposit-equals-sale terms are often buried in the fine print, leaving you to discover the consequences only after you've already loaded your card.The Binance Card Terms are publicly available and set out how deposits, conversion, and spending work. You can review them before you commit. The Binance Card is issued by the relevant card issuer, with Nest Trading Limited (ADGM) acting with the issuer (subject to local jurisdictions). Final ThoughtsThe right crypto card shouldn't cost you control or catch you off guard. With the Binance Card, your crypto stays in your Binance account until you spend, conversion only happens at the point of purchase, and the terms are available for you to review before you commit.Further ReadingBrazilian Users Can Now Tap and Pay with Binance x Mastercard Crypto CardHow Binance Serves Your Full Financial JourneyBuilt by You: How User Feedback Shaped BinanceDisclaimer: 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. This content is for general information only and should not be construed as financial, investment, or tax advice.For more information, see our Terms of Use, Binance Card Terms of Use and Risk Warning.

Main TakeawaysBinance Earn builds the yield curve crypto was not born with, giving users a spectrum of ways to turn idle assets into yield-generating opportunities.Binance VIP Earn adds a loyalty layer to that curve, offering eligible users higher yield potential without moving into a higher-risk product tier.Together, they shift crypto investing from passive holding to productive allocation, where users can hold for the future while generating yield today.Most crypto assets were not originally designed to generate native yield. Bitcoin was designed as a scarce store of value and settlement layer, and many early crypto assets followed. For holders, generating a return required moving into activities such as on-chain lending, which brought added technical complexity and risk.Binance is changing that by building an easy-to-manage yield layer on top of crypto – a full risk-return spectrum that allows users to move from flexible liquidity-first products to more structured yield strategies with a few clicks. VIP Earn adds a preferential yield tier, helping turn loyalty and platform engagement into better yield opportunities.Binance Earn: Flexible Liquidity-first to Structured YieldBinance Earn offers a spectrum of products designed for different user needs, from liquidity-first solutions for idle assets to structured strategies for users with stronger market views. As shown below, each instrument serves a different scenario across liquidity needs, return expectations, and risk appetite.Binance Earn Instrument TypeRisk ProfileCommon Usage ScenarioFlexible ProductsLowIdeal for idle assets, long-term holdings, or the liquid portion of your portfolio. Earn rewards every minute without locking up funds.USD Yield HubLow to ModerateSuitable for users holding stablecoins who want to generate yield on idle USD-pegged assets (stablecoins), while also using the allocated assets as collateral or margin assets for Loan and Futures Trading.Locked ProductsModerateFor those who don’t need immediate asset access and want a more predictable return over a set period; returns are usually higher than flexible products. Suitable for medium-term holders.On-Chain YieldModerateProvides exposure to blockchain-based yield without managing the technical process. Suitable for users seeking income-like on-chain yield.BTC YieldModerate to HighHelps make BTC more productive instead of holding it passively. Suitable for BTC holders seeking additional yield opportunities.Dual InvestmentModerate to HighFor those with a clear market view and comfortable with price-based outcomes. Suitable for users seeking enhanced yield and willing to buy low or sell high at a target price.Binance VIP Earn: Turning Loyalty Into Preferential YieldAfter you have considered your preference of which Binance Earn products fit your personal objectives and risk appetite, Binance VIP Earn adds another advantage. It gives Binance VIPs a way to unlock higher earning potential without moving into a higher-risk product tier.Through selected On-Chain Yield and Locked Products, Binance VIPs may receive up to 20% higher APR than retail Earn rates, and together with greater subscription quotas, depending on the product and campaign structure. This means more yield with the same product-risk category, without added complexity. The proposition is especially powerful since in many financial markets, higher returns usually require users to move further out on the risk curve.Beyond these evergreen benefits, Binance also periodically introduces VIP-exclusive Earn campaigns across different products, offering additional yield opportunities and enhanced quotas. Currently, VIP users can enjoy up to 4.12% APR on RWUSD and up to 5% APR on U Flexible Products with enhanced tier, alongside sizable subscription quotas, further rewarding VIP loyalty alongside the permanent VIP Earn offering.Binance VIP Access is Becoming More InclusiveRecently, Binance lowered the VIP 1 wallet asset threshold from $500,000 to $100,000, making VIP benefits accessible to a broader user base. This expands the VIP framework beyond ultra-high-volume traders and gives asset holders a clearer path into the VIP ecosystem. As you deepen your engagement through trading, holding, or participating in Binance products, it compounds as VIP Earn turns this relationship into a visible yield advantage.How to Reach Binance VIP 1To qualify for Binance VIP 1, users can meet the requirements through different routes, such as:Holding 5 BNB, plus one of the following:$100K wallet asset balance$100K 30-day net borrowing$1M spot trading volume$5M futures trading volumeThis shift in access criteria redefines VIP status from a trading-driven tier into a broader recognition of the value users hold, allocate, and bring into the Binance ecosystem. For more information on other VIP tiers, click here.Final ThoughtsBinance Earn is changing what holding crypto can mean. By creating a full spectrum of yield opportunities, from flexible income-like products to structured strategies, Binance gives users a way to make their assets more productive.VIP Earn adds the next layer by turning loyalty and asset commitment into preferential yield access. Together, they move crypto investing beyond passive ownership and toward productive allocation, where users can hold for the future while generating yield today.Further ReadingWhat Is Binance Earn and How to Use It?What Is the Binance VIP Program? Benefits, Tiers & How to JoinBinance is Building Crypto’s Yield InfrastructureDisclaimer: 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. APR is an estimate of rewards you will earn in cryptocurrency over the selected timeframe. It does not display the actual or predicted returns/yield in any fiat currency. APR is adjusted daily and the estimated rewards may differ from the actual rewards generated. Not financial advice. For more information, see our Terms of Use and Risk Warning.

Main TakeawaysBinance Charity is donating INR 3.3 crore (or INR 33 million), approximately $350,000, to Goonj’s Rahat Initiative to support Assam flood relief efforts in India.The donation will help provide emergency food, clean water, hygiene kits, dignity kits, tents, and tarpaulins to families affected across seven districts and 349 villages.The initiative reflects Binance’s commitment to supporting communities in times of need through trusted local partners like Goonj.Entire villages in Assam, India have been left underwater or cut off, with families displaced from their homes and many struggling to access basic necessities such as food, clean water, hygiene supplies, and temporary shelter. According to regional reports, the floods – described as the state’s worst in over 60 years – have claimed 82 lives and affected nearly 178,000 people across seven districts and 349 villages.In response to the urgent humanitarian needs on the ground, Binance Charity, the philanthropic arm of Binance, is donating INR 3.3 crore, approximately $350,000, to the Rahat Initiative, run by the prominent humanitarian NGO Goonj. The contribution will support emergency relief efforts for affected communities, helping provide essential supplies including food, clean water, hygiene kits, dignity kits, tents, and tarpaulins for displaced families.How Binance Charity Is Supporting Assam Flood Relief Through GoonjBinance Charity’s donation will help fund immediate relief and early recovery needs for affected communities, including emergency food supplies, clean drinking water, hygiene kits, tents, tarpaulins, and dignity kits for displaced families. The contribution is expected to reach 27,500 families across the affected districts, helping communities meet immediate survival needs while beginning the longer process of recovery and rebuilding.Binance Charity and Goonj Join Hands for Assam Flood ReliefThe scale of loss across Assam this monsoon has been staggering, forcing people into makeshift arrangements with months of stored grain and livelihoods gone overnight. Commenting on the situation, Anshu Gupta, Founder of Goonj, said, “Support like this lets us move faster: getting relief material into the hardest-to-reach districts now, and staying on the ground through the recovery phase, not just the emergency. A long-term intervention is needed apart from the immediate support,and that is what we are aiming for.”Echoing the importance of swift, coordinated support, SB Seker, Head of APAC, Binance, said, “Our thoughts are with everyone affected by the devastating floods. In times like these, it is crucial that communities and organizations come together to support those most in need. By working with Goonj’s Rahat Initiative, we hope our contribution will provide urgent relief on the ground and help families begin the long journey of rebuilding and recovery.”Final ThoughtsAs Assam continues to recover from the floods, timely support can help families access essentials and take early steps toward rebuilding. Binance Charity’s contribution to Goonj’s Rahat Initiative is intended to support these relief efforts and complement the work already being done on the ground.This initiative reflects Binance’s broader commitment to helping communities in times of need. By working with local partners like Goonj, Binance Charity hopes to contribute in a meaningful way to relief and recovery efforts for affected families.If you would like to contribute to the relief efforts, you can support affected communities directly through Goonj’s open fundraiser.Further ReadingHow Binance Charity Is Supporting Users and Communities in the Wake of the Ghana FloodsBinance Charity to Donate $3 Million to Support Users Affected by the Venezuela EarthquakesBinance Charity Commits 4 Million Pesos to Mindanao Earthquake Relief