One: No longer deliberately defining Binance's platform attributes and tradable asset scope

April 20, 2026 — On the opening day of the 2026 Hong Kong Web3 Carnival, Binance Co-CEO He Yi spoke during a fireside chat titled “Reshaping Convenience: The Next Decade of Web3, AI, and the Smart Economy.” “As the crypto industry expands, more institutional users and traditional finance players are embracing crypto—and this is fundamentally an integration process. In this shift, some countries and regulators are leading the way because they understand what crypto is and its value to the global financial system. Today, we’re seeing innovators take the lead: in Hong Kong, firms like Futu and Tiger Brokers already hold both stock and crypto assets simultaneously. Similarly, Robinhood is doing the same in the U.S.” “At Binance, we don’t want to limit ourselves to just crypto or stocks. In fact, we recently launched trading for commodities like crude oil, gold, and silver—and their volume now makes up a significant share of our overall activity. Traditional finance might see us as a threat right now; they might even chant ‘down with crypto.’ But long-term, if you aim to become core financial infrastructure, you don’t need to fixate on whether you’re ‘Crypto’ or ‘TradFi.’ Labels box you in. Break through those boundaries and return to basics: What have you done for global financial freedom? For financial equality? For making ordinary people’s lives better? That’s the first-principles starting point, in my view.”