Key Facts Binance launched US equities trading on 1 June 2026, offering eligible non-US users access to more than 7,000 US-listed stocks and ETFs. Trading is enabled through Binance's ADGM br
Key Facts
- Binance launched US equities trading on 1 June 2026, offering eligible non-US users access to more than 7,000 US-listed stocks and ETFs.
- Trading is enabled through Binance's ADGM broker-dealer, Nest Trading Limited; share purchases are arranged by Nest Trading and handled by New York-based clearing firm Alpaca.
- Users can trade with zero commission and buy fractional shares starting at $5, with primary settlement in USDC and support for BNB, USDT, USD1 and $U; select equities support 24/5 trading.
- Binance will introduce bStocks tokenized securities representing select US stocks and ETFs in the coming weeks, subject to regulatory approvals, issued by ADGM-registered SPV BTECH Holdings Ltd.
- Quoted are co-founder and co-CEO Yi He, and co-CEO Richard Teng.
Binance has launched US equities trading for eligible non-US users, opening access to more than 7,000 US-listed stocks and ETFs and previewing the imminent rollout of "bStocks," its tokenized version of the same securities. Announced on 1 June 2026, the launch is the most aggressive single step yet in Binance's "financial super app" strategy — and the first time the world's largest crypto exchange has put a full US equity trading product alongside its core digital assets offering.
How US equities trading works on Binance
The mechanics are designed to remove the cost and friction non-US users typically face when buying American stocks. Eligible users can trade with zero commission, buy fractional shares starting at just $5, and hold direct ownership of the underlying equities, with eligibility for applicable dividends and corporate actions. Select equities are available for 24/5 trading rather than only during US market hours. The trading service is enabled through Binance's ADGM broker-dealer, Nest Trading Limited, with New York-based Alpaca acting as clearing partner — the firm that actually executes and settles the trades into the user's account. Purchases are made primarily in USDC, with additional support for BNB, USDT, USD1 and $U, and sale proceeds are received in USDC. Fully Paid Securities Lending will also be available, letting eligible users earn passive income by lending out their stock holdings. Yi He, co-founder and co-Chief Executive Officer of Binance, framed the launch around access. "We have set out to reach the next 3 billion users, and to do that, we need to make it simpler for users to access opportunities across asset classes, diversify their portfolios, and move more easily between traditional investing and on-chain finance," she said. "That is what a multi-asset financial super app should help people do."
bStocks: the tokenization angle
Running in parallel — and the more strategically significant piece — is the upcoming launch of bStocks. Subject to regulatory approvals, bStocks will be tokenized securities representing select US stocks and ETFs, issued by BTECH Holdings Ltd, a Special Purpose Vehicle registered in the Abu Dhabi Global Market. Once launched, they will trade directly on Binance Exchange. According to Richard Teng, co-Chief Executive Officer of Binance, the bStocks design is intended to let users initiate the tokenization process themselves — converting equities they own into digital tokens on Binance's BNB blockchain. That self-service angle differentiates bStocks from competing tokenized stock products from Kraken (xStocks), Robinhood, and Bitget, which have typically pre-tokenised a fixed catalogue rather than letting users pull traditional holdings on-chain on demand. "Tokenization has the potential to reshape financial markets by giving users greater control, more flexibility, and ultimately more financial freedom," Teng said. "We see a significant opportunity to make financial assets more accessible, more useful, and more connected across traditional and digital markets." The structural advantages are familiar from the broader
tokenized real-world asset thesis: blockchain-based equities can settle near-instantly versus the day-or-more traditional T+1 settlement cycle, can trade 24/7, and can integrate with on-chain DeFi infrastructure for lending, liquidity provision, and other applications outside the Binance ecosystem.
Binance's second swing at tokenized stocks
This is Binance's second attempt at tokenized stocks. The exchange launched a similar product in April 2021 — starting with Tesla, then Coinbase, Strategy, Microsoft and Apple — before shutting it down three months later under regulatory pressure from the UK's FCA and Germany's BaFin. In February 2026, Binance returned to the category through a partnership with Ondo Finance, listing 10 of Ondo's tokenized US stocks and ETFs on Binance Alpha. The bStocks rollout takes the next step: Binance issuing through its own SPV rather than distributing a partner's tokens. The launch is also part of an unusually dense run of Binance product announcements over the past five weeks, including
Pre-IPO perpetual futures starting with SpaceX and OpenAI, the
Event Rush on-chain event-trading dApp, the Withdraw Protection security feature, and
Binance Pay's QR-payments expansion. The thread is consistent: extending crypto-native infrastructure into asset classes and product categories that have historically lived in traditional finance.
FAQ
Who can trade US stocks on Binance? The service is available to eligible non-US users through Binance's ADGM broker-dealer, Nest Trading Limited. Users gain access to more than 7,000 US-listed stocks and ETFs with zero commission, fractional shares from $5, and direct ownership of the underlying equities held by a US-regulated clearing broker. Alpaca is the clearing partner that executes and settles the trades.
What are bStocks and when will they launch? bStocks are tokenized securities representing select US stocks and ETFs, issued by BTECH Holdings Ltd, a Special Purpose Vehicle registered in the Abu Dhabi Global Market. Binance has indicated they will launch in the coming weeks, subject to regulatory approvals, and will be available for trading on Binance Exchange. Users will be able to convert eligible equity holdings into bStocks tokens on the BNB blockchain.
How is bStocks different from Ondo's tokenized stocks on Binance? Binance Alpha added 10 of Ondo Finance's tokenized US stocks and ETFs in February 2026 through a distribution partnership. bStocks is a Binance-issued product through its own ADGM-registered SPV, BTECH Holdings, and is designed to let users initiate tokenization of their own equity holdings rather than only trading pre-tokenised tokens from an external issuer. The launch is a structural statement: Binance is no longer treating equities and tokenization as adjacent product categories but as integrated components of the same offering. Whether bStocks becomes the route by which mainstream non-US investors move global equity ownership on-chain — or runs into the same regulatory friction that ended the 2021 attempt — will be the defining test of Binance's super-app thesis through the second half of 2026. This article is informational and does not constitute investment advice.
