I met Cristiano Ronaldo. Yes, exactly that same person who has long since become a living legend. This day will certainly remain in my memory for the rest of my life - Ronaldo turned out to be not just a sporting icon, but a symbol of greatness and determination. I am often asked: why do I attend all sorts of conferences and meetings? It is difficult to answer. But today I will try to share my thoughts.
💭My name is Richard Tang, and if you allow me, I’ll tell you how I ended up at the center of one of the most dynamic and exciting industries of our time: cryptocurrency. 💭So, it’s 2017. I was the head of ABW Global Market, and frankly, my world revolved around traditional finance. But at one of the conferences in sunny Florida, where they usually discuss the usual topics - from futures to stock markets - there was a new energy in the air. This new drive came from young, ambitious people, talking about cryptocurrencies with sparkling eyes. I noticed that I was not the only one captivated by this atmosphere. More and more voices talking about the future of finance were coming from this sphere, and I could not remain indifferent.
🐼Stocks are complete boredom, but today I started wondering—what is the technical and practical difference between tokenized stock options and their original counterparts.
⭐️When you buy “regular stocks,” you simply hold them, possibly collect dividends, and expect the asset price to grow.
🟡Tokenized stocks (bStocks) are technically different: they live on the blockchain, and only you decide how to manage them—without delays or waiting for the market to open or close.
🥞For example, you can provide liquidity on PancakeSwap.
🏦 Or use them as collateral for a loan on ListaDAO/Venus.
📈📉 Trade them on a DEX.
💪 Or just keep them in your wallet.
🫠There are several issuers of tokenized stocks on the market, and Binance very quickly surged to the top! 💥Right now, bStocks ranks second in terms of the size of tokenized stocks with a volume of over $620M 🔥 🙃Ahead of it is another leader: ONDO.
I didn’t understand the hype around this sector—more precisely, its inclusion in Binance’s interests. Now I can see how blockchain mechanisms are getting mixed with traditional instruments, creating an interesting hybrid. One weak side of the crypto space is the economic instability of assets. The strong side is flexibility, speed, and utility. With stocks, it’s the other way around: assets are very stable, but the difficulties with buying and using them push people away—or simply make many would-be buyers lose interest.
☯️ And here’s the financial hybrid ☯️ 🤓How successful and widely used it will be—we’ll see over time.
🟡 The market for tokenized stocks is growing, and BNB CHAIN is accumulating one-third of all such stocks.
👀How much is that? 💰 According to various estimates, the capitalization of tokenized stocks is currently around 37–39 billion, while the original stock market is around 52–54 trillion—so more by 1,200–1,500 times…. ⌛️ Blockchain will take its slice of the pie; which blockchain— we’ll see in the future. Right now, BNB CHAIN seriously focuses on documentation, various approvals, and certificates, which gives some insight into the “long-term nature of the game.”
⌛️A month from now, there will be a storm in the market…
🥸Well, I mean there are events that will be happening. Within a short period of time, and their outcome can strongly affect the market.
🟡Every day (almost every day) reports and decisions regarding financial indicators are released, and they often influence the charts. In addition, there are political news and decisions by countries regarding international agreements and other things… In September, there will be two important events:
- around September 15 there will be a vote on the Clarity Act, which could be a strong “growth protein” for the current market. This bill was discussed back in early 2026; back then it wasn’t passed—it was delayed, postponed, rescheduled… Bitcoin began searching for its local bottom exactly from that moment, and now new hearings and votes are ahead.
🙃If briefly: this law sets out more rules and clarity for key crypto assets, as well as for companies operating in this space.
💥Another important September event will be the decision on the Fed’s key interest rate. (Coincidentally) it also hasn’t been changed since the start of 2026, and the announcement will be made on September 17.
🤪If both events are positive, the market will bounce back.
🫠If there are new delays, rate hikes, or no rate cuts—then we can expect the continuation of “the game of exhaustion.”
😀I’ve already been waiting for a new “bull run” for the third fall in a row, but so far everything is only going in the red…
🟡 A few days ago, Binance launched a lending feature for crypto assets.
Slowly but surely, the company is starting to take over the banking sector—a process that was launched quite a while ago, but is now getting closer and closer to new competitors.
For the company, these new products are a way to earn additional profit and keep liquidity within its own ecosystem.
Recently, I saw an announcement that Binance offers special deposit terms for VIP users. I think that at some point, the same system will be implemented in the lending section as well, offering a reduced interest rate.
Holding BNB used to lower trading fees; now this asset is becoming useful for lending/deposits too.
VIP status can be obtained in several ways, and there are different tiers: the more you trade or hold BNB, the higher your status.
Priority is given specifically to trading volumes.
The current rise of BNB also stands out and shows that the asset is in a very strong position—most likely the effect of accumulation (news, the coin’s usefulness, and the community’s sentiment).
Of course, I’m not a fortune-teller, but in this cycle it’s quite possible that BNB can match (or even temporarily overtake) Ethereum….
🟡Self-custody has always been considered the pinnacle of security; all the crypto veterans said, “Your money isn’t yours if you don’t have the access keys.” Even exchange executives were weak against these claims, because hacking or deception on an exchange could happen with a higher likelihood. 🙃And here we are in 2026: someone using AI (probably) decided to test the security of ColdCard wallets, and this story has already robbed regular users across different countries out of $114 million.
🤔There’s basically one exchange that could be «under attack»… Before I name it, I’ll first mention a couple of strong points of exchanges with their own token—usually it’s bonuses and discounts on trading fees; for some exchanges, it’s also their own network that’s powered by fees paid in this token. BNB—an ideal example…
🤔KEEP YOURSELF AWAY FROM EXCHANGES WITH THEIR OWN TOKEN
👀Watch how they go after exchanges with their own token. They already kicked BitMEX and BitMart off the market, and now they’ll look for a “black swan,” destroying a major exchange—just like it happened in 2022 with FTX.
💭 I would completely stay away from exchanges with their own token, such as Binance, Bitget, KuCoin, Gate io, or Mexc.
💥They will come for some of these exchanges. Remember this.
This is a random Twitter post… Makes you wonder about its realism, given two “shutdowns” of sufficiently large and in some ways cult-like exchanges. The shutdowns happened quickly and without any prior wars, as if they’d agreed backstage.
Maybe in the future there will be more information, but the shutdown style—very similar, with an official announcement on Twitter.
⭐️The dialog with the main Binance will start streaming in 15 minutes.
Today marks 9 years since the company was founded, and they’ll be summarizing results and talking about the company’s successes.
Maybe they’ll pull back the curtain on the future plans…
Overall, it’s more likely to be a boring, neutral presentation-story rather than something innovative and new in the field…
I remember one of these celebratory streams when they announced a new step for the company in the form of launching its own blockchain—it was awesome…
Now everything already exists, so it’s hard to expect something supernatural. Also, information leaks usually point to upcoming launches of big products, which in principle hasn’t happened this time.
Of course, there’s a small chance the company will surprise us and roll out something.
In the current situation, it’s about maintaining positions in the EU market and obtaining all the necessary licenses…
And it would be nice to promise new launchpools and other programs 🫠