what's binance?
Binance is the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume, founded in 2017 by Changpeng Zhao, offering spot, futures, and margin trading across hundreds of digital assets. It provides additional services like staking, NFTs, and educational resources through its ecosystem, including the Binance.US platform for regulated U.S. users. The exchange emphasizes low fees, security, and global accessibility to empower users in the decentralized finance space.
Binance launched Miner's League, bought BTC, invested in trading tech, and advanced BNB Chain.
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Launched Miner's League incentive program through Binance Pool, offering points and USDC rewards to Bitcoin miners.
Purchased 27,371 BTC worth approximately $2.6 billion in the hours following Core CPI data release on 2026-01-13.
Invested in Genius Terminal (via YZi Labs), a trading terminal that integrates with Hyperliquid and Aster for perpetuals trading.
VenusX launch on BNB Chain scheduled very soon.
Deployed Lorentz and Maxwell upgrades in 2025 that reduced fees by approximately 98% and cut block times to 0.75 seconds.
Offers up to 5,888 USDC in rewards through Dual Investment product on Binance Earn in January 2026.
Recorded more than 73,900 trader liquidations totaling $135 million in value in the past 24 hours.
Lists United Stables (U) on 2026-01-13 at 08:00 UTC, opening spot trading for U/USDT and U/USDC pairs.
Received a pardon from Trump in October 2025 following a guilty plea and payment of a $50M fine (with Binance itself paying $4.3B in fines for Bank Secrecy Act violations).
Binance Smart Chain prediction markets surpassed $400M in daily trading volume, with Opinion capturing approximately 86.7% market share and overall holdings near record highs.
BNB surpassed SOL in 30-day stablecoin inflows as of January 2026.
A whale withdrew $120,200,000 in BTC from the exchange on 2026-01-10.
Listed FOGO token on pre-market trading.
A whale wallet purchased 8,441 BTC worth $735M on the Binance platform.
A wallet withdrew 80,000 SOL worth $10.87M from the exchange after being dormant for 1 year.
A whale/institution that accumulated 101,000 ETH from Binance and Bitstamp five years ago at an average cost of $660 has transferred 40,251 ETH ($124 million) to Bitstamp exchange in the past day, including 26,000 ETH ($80.16 million) transferred one hour before the tweet timestamp, with a total of 75,200 ETH ($254 million) now moved to exchanges at an average price of $3,383.
Became a validator on Sei Network in 2025, alongside Anchorage Digital and Kraken.
Purchased 6,909 BTC (part of a coordinated $3B+ industry-wide buying event) within one hour on January 9, 2026, following the Supreme Court tariffs ruling delay.
Sold over $2.7B worth of BTC within a 3-hour period on January 9, 2026, alongside OKX and Wintermute, following the unemployment rate drop announcement.
Binance Wallet launches a campaign with Unitas Labs on 2026-01-12.
Increased OTC fiat trading volume by 210% year-over-year in 2025.
Listed PARTI token on the exchange.
Offers up to 40% commission through Binance Convert referral program.
Mentioned intodotspace project in Binance Research's December report.
Transferred $1 billion USDC from Hot Wallet 34 to Cold Wallet 14 on 2026-01-09.
Received a 5 million KAITO token deposit (worth $2.82 million) from an address that was part of a 24 million KAITO distribution from Kaito's multisig contract.
Added SKY token to Simple Earn product with flexible and fixed-term staking options (30, 60, and 90 days) offering up to 12.75% APR.
Reached $145 trillion in all-time cumulative trading volume.
Grayscale registered a BNB ETF in Delaware.
Co-founder Changpeng Zhao plans to self-publish a memoir in English and Chinese editions, scheduled for release between 2026-02-05 and 2026-03-19.
Reached 300 million users.
Supported over 20 million merchants via Binance Pay during 2025.
Launched 24/7 futures trading for Gold and Silver perpetual contracts on Binance Futures.
Listed on Binance Japan and OKX Japan after obtaining regulatory approval to operate in Japan.
BNB became available for trading on BitGo Prime.
Listed zkp token on the exchange.
Hosts a spot trading competition with a prize pool of 12,000,000 WLFI tokens from World Liberty Financial.
Lists 币安人生 (BNANRSHENG) on spot with trading pairs 币安人生/USDT, 币安人生/USDC, and 币安人生/TRY at 14:00 UTC on January 7, 2026.
Revamped the Binance Square CreatorPad leaderboard with a points-based rewards system.
Listed Circle's USYC TMMF on BNB Chain.
Opened first office in Shanghai with 30 staff members.
Launched 44th Exclusive TGE for Zen Chain (ZTC) via Binance Wallet, with subscription period on 2026-01-07 from 08:00 to 10:00 UTC requiring Binance Alpha Points for participation.
Large crypto holders deposited $2.4 billion split between BTC and ETH to the exchange in the week ending January 5, 2026, while stablecoin net flows remained flat at $42 million inflow.
A whale deposited $93,250,000 in BTC to the exchange on January 5, 2026, after withdrawing it one week prior with a profit of $3,420,000.
Captured 58% of the $3.36B in trading fees generated by Korean traders on overseas platforms in 2025.
Re-entry into the US market is anticipated as a potential catalyst for BNB performance.
BNB trades at $900, up 2% on January 5, 2026.
Lists Brevis (BREV) token on January 6, 2026 at 14:00 UTC with USDT, USDC, BNB, and TRY trading pairs, carrying a Seed Tag.
Recorded $1.6 trillion in trading volume for 2025, the second-highest among all centralized exchanges, L1s, and L2s.
Updates funding rate settlement frequency on certain USD-M perpetual contracts, switching from hourly to four-hour settlement when absolute funding rate stays at or below 0.025% for 16 consecutive one-hour cycles to optimize trading experience and system efficiency.
Accounts for approximately 45% of total crypto market open interest in derivatives trading.
Experiences growing Bitcoin inflows with average deposit size increasing 34x.
Bought 3,170 BTC on January 3, 2026.
Stopped spot selling and became the leader in bidding for BTC on its platform.
A whale deposited 74,002 ZEC (valued at $35.75M) to Binance on January 3, 2026.
Moved $600 million USDC from cold wallet to hot wallet on Solana on January 3, 2026.
Covered SQD Revenue Pools feature, including enterprise payments, locked SQD, and revenue-linked protocol rewards.
Extended the monitoring tag to include ACA, D, DATA, and FLOW tokens on 2026-01-02.
Launched a Red Packet promotion for DUSK token distribution through Binance Pay.
Experienced a New Year glitch that was exploited by a trader to extract $1.5 million in one day.
Mentioned at Binance Blockchain Week during a presentation on the Innovation Stage by Floki's CRO.
A market maker account holding approximately $10-20 million is suspected to have been compromised on 2025-12-31, with funds being used to manipulate the BROCCOLI714/USDT trading pair through aggressive buying that caused a 10-fold price surge.
Institutional trading volume increased 21% year-over-year in 2025.
BSC Fermi Hardfork scheduled for 2026-01-14.
Predicted to face a lawsuit from a major market maker in 2026.
Recorded an 8,441 BTC purchase worth $735 million from a Satoshi-era whale on December 30, 2025.
Received a $332 million ETH deposit from a whale on December 30, 2025.
CoW Swap integrated with Binance Smart Chain in 2025, bringing MEV protection to the chain.
Launched Smart Copy feature using AI and big data to help users connect with top traders.
Founder CZ expresses opinion that a crypto "supercycle" may occur in 2026.
Was mentioned as an example of a whitelabeled stablecoin product that Paxos had previously issued for enterprises.
Sold 12,779 BTC in a large transaction within a one-hour window on 2025-12-29.
Running a marketing campaign offering $2,500 USDC in total rewards to users who share their 2025 Year in Review profile and complete a survey.
Offers Babylon BTC staking through On-Chain Yields product with BABY token staking at up to 29.9% APR, running from December 3 to January 2, 2025 (UTC).
Listed LAVA token, providing global market access.
Released Binance Wallet Extension version 1.6.0 or above, which includes a new Sidebar feature that allows users to keep the wallet always visible in their browser and sign transactions from a single sidebar.
Approximately 8,000 BTC in open interest was added on futures as of December 29, 2025.
Received a $40 million USDT transfer from Trend Research after they borrowed from Aave, continuing their leveraged ETH purchasing activity.
Two newly created wallets withdrew 1,600 BTC ($143.65M) in a 3-hour period ending around 2025-12-29 06:50 UTC.
stops Binance Live streaming platform service on 2025-12-31
Pre-market trading for LIT token is available, with LIT reaching $3.78 in pre-market trading.
SEC drops case against Binance
Nominated as "CEX of the year" for 2025 in a community awards list.
Regulated Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, and XRP ETF options market total combined open interest surpassed the combined perpetual futures markets of Binance, Bybit, and OKX for the first time.
achieved spot trading volume of $4.6B in Q3 2025 with 75% quarter-over-quarter growth
Compensated users approximately $283 million following severe depeg of Binance Earn products during the October 10, 2025 market crash that involved ~$20 billion in liquidations.
Reported 4.32 million daily active users.
Reached 277 million holders in December 2025, up from 158 million holders in January 2025.
Acquired GOPAX, a regulated Korean exchange.
Concluded the On-Chain Trade & Win Campaign and distributed BNB rewards to the top 210 users on the leaderboard in Binance Wallet (Keyless) on December 26, 2025.
Ranked as one of the top two "best companies to work for" in a 506-respondent Web3 industry employment survey conducted in December 2025.