Binance US CEO Steven Gregory announced at the RareEvo conference in Las Vegas that the exchange plans to apply for a Commodity Futures Trading Commission Designated Contract Market license next month. If approved, the license would allow Binance US to launch its own regulated prediction market in the United States,
Binance continues strengthening connections between traditional financial markets and cryptocurrency by distributing stock dividends directly in stablecoins. The exchange recently paid eligible holders of Orchid Island Capital (NYSE: ORC) a $0.50 dividend per share in USDC. It rewards investors who qualified before the July 10, 2026 record date. The distribution
Prediction markets keep drawing more traders from around the world. The new studies by scholars have revealed that there might be specific contractual designs. These would inadvertently favour such strategic behaviour of market participants. Scholars from Stanford University and Singapore Management University studied five-minute Bitcoin prediction contracts traded on Polymarket.
One of the world’s leading cryptocurrency exchanges, Binance, is facing functional and operational disruption across Europe. The country’s Markets in Crypto-Assets, namely MiCA, had already announced a July 1 deadline for crypto companies. This was to obtain authorization licence for smooth operations. This left the unlicensed firms in terror, as
BlockShoals Technologies Inc. has been authorized by the Philippine SEC to undertake product testing through the Strategic Sandbox program. This move was triggered by BlockShoals completing further regulatory requirements after being cleared under the StratBox program in November 2025. The Binance co-founder He Yi announced the news through social media,
Binance reassures EU customers now that Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation officially went into full effect in the region. Binance revealed that customers’ assets are still insured on a 1-to-1 basis, and withdrawal is possible without interruption. Richard Teng, Chief Executive Officer, reiterated the same message, stating how the company is
Nearly 1,700 UK cryptocurrency investors have taken legal action in the UK High Court against Binance and its co-founder, Changpeng Zhao, in a lawsuit worth more than £150 million, or roughly $200 million. The claimants’ law firm, KP Law, contends that Binance made available unregulated leveraged tokens, futures, and options
Binance is looking to obtain a MiCA license across Europe using France as the gateway. This came as a following apparent setback in Greece. The opposition of the application appears to have been spearheaded by The President of the European Central Bank, Christine Lagarde. In addition, there have been reports
Binance establishes itself as the dominant liquidity venue for the product by capturing more than sixty percent of the market share for SpaceX derivatives trading across both centralized and decentralized exchanges. The SpaceX perpetual futures (SPCXUSDT) have become the second-largest traded product on Binance, behind Bitcoin perpetuals. This is a reflection
Today, Binance Exchange announced that bStocks, fully-backed tokenized securities that reflect specific U.S. equities issued by BTech Holdings Limited, an affiliate of the Binance group (“Issuer”), may now be traded. Users who meet the requirements may trade and hold bStocks on Binance around-the-clock, self-custody them using wallets that are compatible with the
