What?: No Longer Deliberately Define Binance's Platform Attribute and Tradable 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 an increasing number of institutional users and more and more traditional finance institutions starting to embrace crypto. You will find that this is actually an integration process. In this integration process, you will see that some countries, some regulators are taking the lead. They understand what crypto is and understand its significance to the entire financial system. Today, we may let some people take the lead in trying things out, taking the lead in innovation. Under this foundation, we will see in Hong Kong companies like Futu, Tiger, which have already started to hold both stock assets and crypto assets simultaneously. And in the U.S., companies like Robinhood are actually doing the same."

“I think at Binance, we may not just want to tether 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. The trading volume of Binance's commodities has already accounted for a very high proportion in traditional terms. Maybe traditional finance now sees us as a threat, maybe they will also cry ‘down with crypto,’ but I think the longer-term future is when you want to become a fundamental financial infrastructure, you actually don’t need to care too much whether you are in Crypto or TradFi. Because when we label ourselves, that label becomes a process of confining ourselves. When you break through that boundary and go back to the origin, the question you should consider is what you have done for the financial freedom of this world, and what you have done for financial equality, whether you have made ordinary people's lives better. I think this is a very first-principles starting point.”