Binance has added perpetual futures contracts on five Korean equities — Samsung Electro-Mechanics, Hanmi Semiconductor, LG Electronics, Naver and the Kodex 200 ETF — to its TradFi Perps lineup, letting users trade the contracts 24/7 with up to 20x leverage on Binance Futures. The listing extends a product line that started with gold and silver futures in January and has since grown to capture a meaningful share of Binance's derivatives volume.
The Korean-stock contracts arrive alongside a parallel push into bStocks, Binance's fully-backed tokenized securities product issued by group affiliate BTech Holdings. Binance data shared this week showed Gen Z users acting as consistent net accumulators across the new products — 76% net buyers in bStocks, 77% in tokenized equities generally, and 60% in TradFi Perps — with the exchange framing the pattern as evidence of long-term intent rather than short-term flipping. bStocks has also spun off its own account, @bstocksfinance, to house future announcements separately from Binance's main feed.
A crowded race to tokenize Wall Street
Binance is far from alone in the push. Since launching in June with just five names — Circle, Micron, Nvidia, Sandisk and Tesla — bStocks expanded to 36 listings within a month, and a company announcement put the product's market cap at roughly $300 million over that stretch, with $216 million in rapid back-to-back trades across bStocks and their underlying equities recorded between June 11 and July 8. Kraken's xStocks platform, Robinhood's roughly 2,000-token tokenized-equity catalog and Coinbase's own rollout are all competing for the same retail flow, and rankings this year have consistently put Bitget, Coinbase, Binance, Kraken and Bybit atop the tokenized-stock leaderboard.
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TradFi Perps have grown roughly tenfold in 2026 and now account for close to 28% of Binance's crypto futures volume, according to the exchange, a scale that helps explain why it keeps widening the product beyond metals and into individual equities and now foreign stock indexes. For traders, the appeal is straightforward: exposure to names like Samsung Electro-Mechanics or LG Electronics without needing a brokerage account in Korea, settled in stablecoin and tradable around the clock — a structure regulators in multiple jurisdictions are still working out how to classify.
