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**Binance Expands TradFi Footprint with New U.S. Stock Perpetual Contracts** On February 5, Binance took another step forward in its push into traditional finance (TradFi), announcing it will roll out U-based perpetual contracts for MicroStrategy (MSTR), Amazon (AMZN), Circle (CRCL), Coinbase (COIN), and Palantir (PLTR) starting February 9. With this addition, Binance’s stock contract market will grow to 8, while its TradFi trading targets will hit 12. The exchange recently added perpetual contract trading for Tesla (TSLA), Intel, and Robinhood stocks. Beyond U.S. equities, Binance has also launched futures contracts for gold, silver, platinum, and palladium. Notably, Binance rolled out stock tokenization products in April 2021—with Tesla as the first supported token, priced in BUSD at the time. These are synthetic assets, not actual stock trading. Due to regulatory concerns, the service was phased out starting July 16, 2021. Nearly five years later, crypto has moved toward full compliance, tokenization has emerged as crypto’s most talked-about topic in traditional finance, and users can now trade tokenized stock products on both centralized (CEX) and decentralized (DEX) exchanges.

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