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BNB News: bStocks Hits $1B as BNB and ZEC Wait, While Traders Pile Into Pepeto on a 100x Call

BNB news this week reads like two different markets, one busier than ever and one stuck in place. Binance's tokenized stock product, bStocks, passed $1 billion in assets on October 15, about

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BNB News: bStocks Hits $1B as BNB and ZEC Wait, While Traders Pile Into Pepeto on a 100x Call
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BNB news this week reads like two different markets, one busier than ever and one stuck in place.

Binance's tokenized stock product, bStocks, passed $1 billion in assets on October 15, about four months after launch, per Bitcoin.com News. Yet BNB slid 3.1% over seven days, CoinGecko shows.

When a market gets this busy, traders start hunting for the next spot where being early pays. Pepeto, a meme coin with no exchange listing yet, has already pulled in over $11.1 million from buyers who want in before its first trade.

BNB News: Binance's bStocks Crosses $1 Billion in Four Months

The biggest BNB news this week came from Binance itself. bStocks went live on June 11 with five tokens, and it now lists nearly 100, Blockchain.News reported on October 15. Total trades have passed $40 billion, more than $300 million a day.

Buyers have also moved $6 billion between direct stocks and bStocks, per Binance's own release. That is real demand, and every one of those trades pays a fee somewhere.

Busy Trading Means Fees: Pepeto, BNB and Zcash After This BNB News

Pepeto: A Live Exchange Where a Swap Costs 0.00% in Fees

So who keeps those fees when trading gets this busy? On most platforms, the exchange does. On PepetoSwap, the trader does, and PepetoSwap belongs to Pepeto, a meme coin still in its presale.

Pepeto is listed on no exchange yet, and it has already raised over $11.1 million. Analysts project 100x after listing. What sets it apart from a pure meme bet is that its exchange already runs, and anyone can test it today.

PepetoSwap charges a 0.00% swap fee, so a trader pays network gas and nothing more. Market, limit and DCA orders sit in one place, and a private relay is on by default, which stops bots from jumping ahead of your order.

It works with MetaMask, Trust Wallet, Rabby and other common wallets, and your coins never leave your own wallet, so no company can freeze them.

The savings add up fast. A $100,000 swap costs $300 on Uniswap and $250 on PancakeSwap, but $0 in swap fees on PepetoSwap. Even someone who swaps $1,000 a week keeps about $156 a year. When one Binance product moves $300 million a day, fees like those stop being small.

The token behind that exchange still sells at its presale price, which climbs every stage. So a trader who wants to keep his fees and hold a real shot at 100x gets both here, at the lowest price this presale has left.

BNB: Trading Near $732 as bStocks Brings Fresh Activity to Binance

BNB trades at $732.66 on CoinMarketCap, after slipping below the $750 line on October 15, crypto.news reported. bStocks gives traders one more reason to stay on Binance, which helps BNB over time.

The challenge is size. Getting back to its $1,370.55 record from October 13, 2025 needs a climb of about 87%. For a $97.6 billion coin, that takes huge new money and a lot of patience.

Zcash: Trading Near $1,086 Ahead of Its NU7 Upgrade

ZEC trades at $1,086.35 on CoinMarketCap, down 10.63% in a day. Its NU7 upgrade aims for the main network around November 5, per 24/7 Wall St, which gives Zcash a real date to trade toward.

Still, a bounce to resistance near $1,242 would pay about 14%, a fair gain for a coin already priced above $1,000.

Conclusion: BNB Once Sold for $0.15, and Pepeto Has Not Made Its First Trade Yet

This week's BNB news showed booming trade, with bStocks at $1 billion, while BNB and ZEC offer slow climbs from here. The bigger lesson sits in BNB's own past.

In 2017, BNB sold for about $0.15 before it traded anywhere, per BloFin. So $100 bought about 667 coins, worth about $914,000 at the 2025 peak. That money went to the people who bought before the first trade.

Pepeto sits at that same point today, before its first trade, with its exchange already running and over $11.1 million already in. If analysts are right about 100x, $250 at the presale price could reach $25,000.

Each round on the Pepeto official website ends when its timer runs out or its target is hit, and the price steps up after that. So the kind of seat BNB's first buyers had in 2017 is open in this stage, and only until it closes.

Explore the current Pepeto stage and price

FAQs

What is Pepeto, and how does it fit this week's BNB news?

Pepeto is a presale meme coin whose zero fee exchange serves the busy trading this BNB news shows. BNB buyers at that early stage turned $100 into about $914,000.

How does the $1 billion bStocks milestone relate to Pepeto?

It proves trading demand is huge, and Pepeto lets traders keep the fees. Analysts project 100x after listing, and each stage on the Pepeto official website costs more.