Binance Expands Collateral Assets as CZ Critiques Banking Penalties

Binance expanded its tokenized stock offerings by adding four new bStocks pairs and enabling them as collateral, while announcing the upcoming delisting of EPIC and QUICK. BNB held steady at $743.00 as BSC total value locked increased 1.04% in 24 hours to reach $5.41B. Meanwhile, CZ drew attention to traditional banking double standards following a $1.2B fine against Bank of America and endorsed PancakeSwap's 'The Flip' proposal cutting CAKE emissions.

• Binance listed Blackberry (BBB), Mongodb Inc (MDBB), Penguin Solutions Inc (PENGB), and ProShares Ultra VIX Short-Term Futures ETF (UVXYB) bStocks pairs on Spot and Convert, adding all four as collateral assets.
• Binance scheduled the delisting of EPIC and QUICK tokens for 2026-10-28.
• BSC TVL climbed 1.04% over the past 24 hours to $5.41B, despite being down 6.67% over 7 days.
• CZ voiced support for PancakeSwap's 'The Flip' governance proposal, praising its plan to boost LP swap fee shares to 88% and cut daily CAKE emissions by ~69% from 22,500 to 7,000.
• CZ commented on Bank of America's $1.2B U.S. penalty for failing to flag $5B in illicit transactions, pointing out that no executives faced prison, home confinement, DPAs, or charges.
• BNB traded at $743.00 (+0.44% in 24h), while Bitcoin hovered at $83,449.86 (+0.14%) amid market greed measuring 62 on the Fear & Greed Index.
• GNS posted massive gains of 84.70% to trade at $0.676, while OGN dropped 19.55% to $0.0325.
• Binance launched Spot Trading Tournament Season 5 with a reward pool of up to 400 BNB in token vouchers.
• Standard Chartered expanded spot Bitcoin and Ether trading to professional and affluent clients in the UAE.