One: No longer deliberately defining Binance's platform attribute and trading asset scope

BlockBeats Live Report: On April 20, 2026, during the first day of the Hong Kong Web3 Carnival, Binance Co-CEO He Yi participated in a fireside chat on the theme "Reshaping Convenience: The Next Decade of Web3, AI, and the Smart Economy," where he stated:

"Today, the scale of the crypto industry continues to expand, with more and more institutional users and traditional financial institutions beginning to embrace crypto. You will find that this is actually an integration process. In this process of integration, we will see that some countries, some regulators are leading the way. They understand what crypto is, they understand its significance to the entire financial system. Today, we may first let some people try, first innovate. Based on this foundation, we see in Hong Kong companies like Futu, Tiger, have already begun to hold both stock assets and crypto assets. And in the U.S., companies like Robinhood are doing the same."

"I think at Binance, we may not only want to tie ourselves to crypto or so-called stock assets. In fact, some time ago, we have already launched some commodities, including crude oil, gold, silver, and so on. Binance's commodity trading volume has already accounted for a very high proportion within the traditional scale. Traditional finance may now see us as a threat, and they may also call for a 'downfall of crypto,' but I think the longer-term future is that when you want to become a fundamental financial infrastructure, you actually don’t need to care too much about whether you are in crypto or TradFi. Because when we label ourselves, that label is a process of setting boundaries. When you break through that boundary and return to the starting point, the question you should be thinking about is, what have you done for the financial freedom of this world, and what have you done for financial inclusion to make ordinary people's lives better? I think it's a very first-principles starting point."