On its ninth anniversary, the exchange touted 323 million users and $156 trillion in lifetime volume while pressing deeper into tokenized stocks and equities.
Posted July 14, 2026 at 10:48 am EST.
Binance celebrated its ninth anniversary on Tuesday with news that roughly 43% of everyone who owns cryptocurrency now uses the exchange; a figure it paired with an ambition to eventually reach three billion people.
In an announcement shared with Unchained Crypto, Binance said its registered user base now tops 323 million people spread across more than 100 countries, and that it has cleared north of $156 trillion in cumulative trading volume since launching in July 2017. The company reached the 43% figure by measuring its user base against an industry estimate of 741 million crypto owners worldwide. All of the numbers are self-reported and cannot be independently verified.
A Push Beyond Crypto
The milestone doubled as a pitch for what Binance calls its “financial super app” strategy: an effort to fold stocks, savings, payments and market access into a single platform. Over the past year the exchange has expanded into traditional finance, rolling out direct US equities trading in June as well as bStocks, or tokenized versions of US securities that trade around the clock on BNB Chain. Binance said the tokenized products crossed $100 million in assets under management within two weeks, while its direct-stock offering reached $1 billion within a month.
“Users deserve access to global markets, and we intend to give it to them,” Co-CEO Richard Teng said in the release. Fellow Co-CEO Yi He, who was named to the role in December 2025, cast the shift as bigger than the company itself. “That is not just growth. It is a shift in how the world accesses finance. We are only at the beginning,” she said.
A Complicated Backdrop
The celebratory framing sits against a heavier regulatory history. Binance pleaded guilty in 2023 to US money-laundering and sanctions violations, paying a $4.3 billion penalty and accepting an independent compliance monitor, while founder Changpeng Zhao stepped down before being pardoned by U.S. President Donald Trump in October 2025.
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