BNB news

Tether has expanded its gold-backed token XAUT to BNB Chain, increasing access to the dominant tokenized gold product. XAUT, representing physical gold in Swiss vaults, has a market cap of nearly $2.5 billion, accounting for nearly half of the $5.3 billion tokenized gold market. CEO Paolo Ardoino stated that listing on BNB Chain brings gold to hundreds of millions of users, making it usable in modern financial systems. Binance has opened spot trading for XAUT pairs, including with USDT, Bitcoin, and other currencies.

CEA Industries Inc. director Hans Thomas resigned as YZi Labs Management, tied to Binance founder Changpeng Zhao, intensifies efforts to overhaul BNC's leadership. YZi Labs targets a 20-year asset management agreement with 10X Capital that has cost BNC millions in fees. YZi Labs filed a preliminary consent statement to expand BNC's board and elect up to seven new directors, which would give it control over the company and its BNB treasury. The outcome depends on shareholder approval through a consent solicitation process.

Myriad, a prediction market owned by Dastan, will migrate its entire catalog to BNB Chain and adopt World Liberty Financial’s USD1 stablecoin as its exclusive settlement asset. The move is presented as creating a faster, simpler, single‑chain environment, replacing its current fragmented multi‑chain setup. The migration enables a shift to a central limit order book, adding slippage controls, limit orders, dynamic fees and broader market data. It launches alongside Season 3 and a new Myriad Wallet integrated with MoonPay, aiming to boost liquidity and user growth.

YZi Labs, the investment firm backed by Binance co‑founder Changpeng "CZ" Zhao, has invested $100 million in Hash Global’s BNB fund. Launched in June, the fund posted a 32.5% return by the end of August and gives institutional investors exposure to BNB, the fourth‑largest cryptocurrency and a proxy for Binance. Hash Global notes BNB Chain’s over 5 million daily active users and 760 million unique addresses, while YZi Labs seeks to draw traditional capital to the token’s long‑term growth.

YZi Labs publicly accused 10X Capital of failing to file required SEC disclosures after it surpassed a 5 % ownership threshold in CEA Industries (Nasdaq BNC), the firm that manages Binance’s largest BNB treasury. The claim comes amid a board proposal to amend 10X’s asset‑management agreement. The board seeks lower fees, a shorter term and more flexible termination provisions, while YZi Labs also alleged that board director Hans Thomas missed mandatory Section 16 filings. BNC previously denied earlier compliance accusations. The dispute signals a broader battle over control and governance of the Binance‑aligned treasury company.

BNB rose over 5% to $893, edging toward the $900 resistance level as the Virtune‑launched Nasdaq Stockholm BNB exchange‑traded product (ETP) made its debut. The ETP, backed physically with Coinbase custody, charges a 1.95% annual fee and adds a new route for institutional exposure. BNB Chain is seeing a surge in prediction‑market activity, with Opinion Labs reporting more than $700 million in 7‑day volume and cumulative trading on the chain now exceeding $20 billion. Probable, launched in December, has already surpassed $1 billion in volume. The platform is integrating directly with Binance and Trust wallets, easing access for users. BNB Chain’s executive expects market consolidation in 2–3 years, while traders keep an eye on the $900 target as the CoinDesk 20 index gains roughly 1% in the past 24 hours.

Grayscale filed a Form S‑1 with the SEC to launch a spot ETF tracking Binance’s native token BNB, trading under the ticker GBNB. The proposal will advance only if Nasdaq files a 19b‑4 and the SEC approves. Like VanEck’s earlier BNB ETF filing, Grayscale’s plan excludes staking amid regulatory uncertainty. No U.S. BNB ETF currently trades, though European investors can buy a BNB ETP via 21Shares.

Grayscale has filed a registration statement with the SEC to launch a BNB ETF, tentatively named GBNB, that will track the Binance‑linked token BNB. The fund would be listed on Nasdaq and use Bank of New York Mellon as transfer agent and Coinbase Custody as custodian. Grayscale’s filing follows VanEck’s earlier BNB ETF proposal and comes amid a wave of new crypto ETFs, adding to the firm’s existing suite of token‑based funds.

BNB is trading at $908, up about 1% in the last 24 hours, matching the 0.95% rise of the CoinDesk 20 index. Elevated volume and a brief push toward the $910 resistance left the price consolidating just above the $900 support, leaving bulls and bears locked in a short-term stalemate. The token remains below the key $910 resistance and analysts are watching a move above $931 to confirm upward momentum. The Fermi hard fork reduced block times from 0.75 to 0.45 seconds, boosting throughput. Institutional interest is growing with Grayscale's BNB-ETF filing, and the BNB Chain Foundation's $100 million liquidity program and $200 000 allocations to smaller projects aim to spur activity.

BNB Chain’s Fermi hard fork, launching this Wednesday, will reduce block times from 0.75 s to 0.45 s and target a finality of about one second, positioning the network as one of the fastest EVM‑compatible chains. The upgrade tightens consensus rules, propagation, and voting parameters so validators stay in sync even under congestion, while preserving predictable finality. Most DApps won’t need code changes, but teams that rely on precise block timing should review their assumptions. With 3.89 billion transactions in 2025, BNB Chain was the second busiest chain after Solana. Fermi gives it a speed edge over Ethereum’s 12‑second blocks, fitting its 2026 roadmap of high‑performance infrastructure for latency‑sensitive DeFi and gaming applications.