Binance Marks Ninth Anniversary With H1 2026 Growth and Expanded Digital Finance Offerings

Binance Blog published a new article, outlining Binance’s ninth-anniversary milestones and explaining how the platform is expanding access, utility, and trust as crypto and traditional finance increasingly converge. The post said Binance now serves more than 300 million retail users and reported continued growth in H1 2026, with registered retail users rising roughly 7% and institutional users increasing 9%. Across all products, Binance reported $156.4T in all-time trading volume, up from $145T at the end of 2025, implying about $11.4T in additional volume in the first part of 2026 and 7.8% growth from the prior year-end total. Binance also said it broadened market access by adding 11% more coins and 3% more trading pairs. The article framed these developments as part of a shift from a crypto exchange toward a broader digital finance ecosystem that spans crypto, stablecoins, traditional and tokenized securities, TradFi perpetuals, payments, cards, fiat rails, rewards, and on-chain utility, with an emphasis on meeting user needs securely and efficiently. Binance said its 2026 expansion included greater access to traditional market exposure through TradFi perpetuals, Direct Stocks, and bStocks. Since March 2026, it reported processing more than $80B in monthly TradFi trading volume. In June 2026, Binance said it opened access to more than 7,000 U.S. stocks and ETFs, and that Direct Stocks reached $1B in assets within roughly 30 days of launch alongside close to $3B in cumulative trading volume; it added that more than 73% of first-month direct stock trading volume came from emerging-market users. For bStocks, Binance reported crossing $100M in assets within 15 days of launch, with 47% of volume occurring outside U.S. market hours. The post also highlighted product and program updates based on 2,354 pieces of user feedback in the first half of 2026, resulting in 198 improvements across 47 sub-categories, including changes to Binance Junior and VIP eligibility. On trust and compliance, Binance reported responding to 313,653 law enforcement requests all-time, including 36,235 from January to June 2026, and said funds recovered or frozen with its support exceeded $40M in 2026 and reached $1.02B all-time. It also cited utility metrics, including Binance Pay QR-code national payment integrations in six countries with a target of 10 countries in Q3 2026, Binance Card availability in 36 countries, and $83.3B processed via fiat rails in H1 2026, up 29% from the same period in 2025. The article added that Binance Earn distributed $4.1B between 2019 and 2026, while Binance Alpha distributed almost $0.8B all-time and Launchpool, Megadrop, and HODLer Airdrops distributed $5.1B all-time, exceeding $10 billion in aggregate value returned. Community figures included 2.2M virtual attendees by June 15 and 4.74M Binance Square creators by mid-June 2026.