BUSD (BUSD)

Binance, after nearly five years, is once again aggressively advancing the TradFi market, this time in a significantly more systematic manner.

Binance announced that starting February 9, it will gradually launch five U.S. stock‑denominated perpetual contracts: MSTR (Strategy), AMZN (Amazon), CRCL (Circle), COIN (Coinbase), and PLTR (Palantir).

Upon completion, the number of U.S. stock contract symbols will increase to eight, and the total TradFi‑related symbols will reach twelve.

Previously, Binance has already successively launched perpetual contracts for TSLA, Intel, and Robinhood stocks;

Beyond U.S. equities, it also offers contracts for four precious metals—gold, silver, platinum, and palladium—making TradFi coverage clearly more than just a trial.

This rollout easily recalls Binance's stock tokenization products launched in April 2021.

At that time, the first offering was a tokenized Tesla stock priced in BUSD, essentially a synthetic asset rather than a real stock trade, which was taken down in July 2021 due to regulatory pressure.

But the environment five years later is completely different:

Compliance has become the industry's main theme
Tokenized assets have become the core narrative of the fusion between TradFi and crypto
Crypto users are once again encountering ‘stock‑like’ assets on both CEXs and DEXs

From this perspective, Binance's return to TradFi is not merely a product comeback but resembles a reboot grounded in new regulation and new narrative.

The interesting thing about USD1 wasn’t who talked about it.
It was who didn’t need to.

No consumer narrative.
No spending pitch.
No merchant rails.

Its relevance emerged quietly inside exchange risk stacks, where stablecoins either work or get rejected.

Issued by @worldlibertyfi, USD1 entered crypto as balance-sheet infrastructure, not money.

● What Made USD1 Different

$USD1 crossed its first threshold when it was accepted as collateral.

In a short window:

> Circulating supply: 4.965B
> Market cap: $4.962B
> 24h volume: $1.4B
> Peg: $0.999–$1.000

That’s not consumer usage.
That’s liquidity fit for leverage.

At this scale, a stablecoin stops being theoretical.

● Why Collateral Comes First

Stablecoins don’t matter when they’re spent.
They matter when venues trust them under positions.

That’s why Binance converting $BUSD collateral into USD1 mattered.

It wasn’t marketing.
It was balance-sheet replacement.

Exchanges don’t experiment with collateral.
They replace it.

That’s where @worldlibertyfi e