Binance celebrates its ninth anniversary. When it was launched on July 14, 2017, the total number of people in the global cryptocurrency community was less than 6 million. At that time, BNB was still an ERC-20 token on Ethereum, with a unit price of 1.5 cents. Now then? 323 million users spread across over 100 countries. About one in every three cryptocurrency holders worldwide is using Binance. The cumulative trading volume is $156 trillion. This is not a legendary story. This is an increasingly steep curve The first 100 million users used it for five years. The second one is 100 million, two years. The third one hundred million, one and a half years. Currently, an average of 180000 new people come in every day. Interestingly, in the 2025 survey, half of the users stated that they are long-term holders. 70% of major jurisdictions worldwide also have regulatory frameworks related to encryption. The trading volume has increased even more fiercely. By the end of 2024, it had just surpassed 100 trillion yuan, and by the end of 2025, it had reached 145 trillion yuan. In the first half of this year, it had increased by 11.4 trillion yuan. The transaction volume of retail has more than doubled compared to last year, with institutions increasing by 21% and another 9% in the first half of this year. In March, the monthly trading volume of Binance's traditional financial products exceeded 80 billion US dollars. In June, the stock trading was launched, and the scale of talent management exceeded 1 billion within 30 days. BStocks is even more exaggerated, exceeding 100 million in just two weeks, with 47% of transactions occurring outside of US time - indicating that global users are truly using it. Compliance used to be a tight curse of the exchange, but now it has become a moat. 21 jurisdictions have granted licenses and a compliance team of 650 people. By 2024 alone, it has prevented potential losses of $4.2 billion for users. Last December, ADGM granted Binance the world's first "three in one" license - exchange, clearing house, and broker, all in one go. The AI risk control system has cumulatively blocked $10.5 billion in fraud risks. Let's talk about BNB. From a 1.5-cent ERC-20 to now having its own public chain. 450 milliseconds for block generation, 650 milliseconds for endgame, twice as fast as at the beginning of the year. We will double again in the second half of the year, with a long-term goal of 100000 TPS. 65 million pieces were destroyed, reaching a historical high of $1370 last year. There are too many projects in the industry that issue coins. But after issuing the coins, those who are still diligently iterating, continuously destroying, and persistently building infrastructure, count how many are left. Nine years have passed, and Binance's current appearance is not that of a 'relatively long-lived exchange'. It is an account filled with spot, contracts, options, stocks ETF、 Tokenized securities, wealth management, payments, Web3 wallets, on chain trading... most of the financial tools you can think of are now available. I always remember what He Yiyi said: "Nine years ago, what we wanted to do was to allow money to flow freely. What we are doing now is to make this system accessible to everyone More than 300 million people, accounting for 43% of global encryption users. Does it sound quite big? But how to put it, I don't think this is any finale at all. That's just the level of getting the starting gun. Binance, happy ninth anniversary. See you in ten years. @binancezh @binance