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  • twhokage
    hokage (@twhokage) reported

    @_Ayoo_xx @binance @binance help

  • gmnome
    GM_Crypto (@gmnome) reported

    AI can analyse a market in seconds… but can it actually trade for you? 🤖📊 AI is changing trading, but probably not in the way people imagine. Today, AI tools can process huge amounts of market data, spot patterns, monitor markets and help traders test strategies much faster than a person could manually. Some trading bots can even operate 24/7 based on predefined rules, which can be useful when markets never sleep. But here’s the part that gets overlooked: AI is not a crystal ball. It can work with the information it has, but markets can change unexpectedly. A strategy that worked yesterday may fail tomorrow. Bad assumptions, technical problems, poor data or sudden market moves can still lead to losses. That’s why I see AI as a trading assistant, not a replacement for the trader. Use it to research faster. Monitor more efficiently. Test ideas. Automate certain tasks. But understand the strategy yourself, question the output and manage your risk. The real advantage may not be letting AI make every decision. It may be using AI to make better-informed decisions yourself. So I’m curious: Would you trust AI to help with your trading decisions, or would you rather keep the final call completely human? 👇 Educational content only. Not financial advice. #Binance #BinanceAcademy #LearnWithBinance

  • TacBuild
    TAC (🫰,✨️) (@TacBuild) reported

    $TAC on BNB Chain is migrating to a new contract. The snapshot has already been taken. We are replacing the BEP20 $TAC on BNB Chain, where 1,662,322,353 $TAC is linked to the August 22 exploit. The migration cuts the attacker off from the stolen supply he still controls. New $TAC contract on BNB Chain: 0xb305E6954e4e0Cd021c06Ec355681abc8A00dbD7 Any other address is fake. Snapshot block: 119,573,620 (September 2, 17:16 UTC). It was taken before this announcement so the attacker could not use his supply to interfere with the distribution. Snapshot only records who held $TAC at that block. What happens now: > Held $TAC in your own wallet or in an LP position at the snapshot block: you receive the new token automatically. Attacker-linked addresses are excluded. > Held on Binance Alpha: the token swap and trading of the new token go live there on Friday, September 4, 08:00 UTC. > Proposed airdrop list will be published shortly, with three business days to dispute it. > New PancakeSwap pool and TAC<>BNB Chain bridging will be back by Friday. > There is no claim site. Never connect your wallet anywhere to "claim". Do not buy or trade the old token: purchases via trading/OTC/transfers after the snapshot block will not be credited. $TAC on Ethereum and TON is not part of this migration.

  • XmarkstheHart
    Mr. Christopher 🐂🀄️ (@XmarkstheHart) reported

    @CryptoMikli @notthreadguy I was under the impression Binance has a ledger error and it caused a string of liquidations that created a cascade. Triggering the beginning of the bear.

  • moneymancalls
    investor 🔸 (@moneymancalls) reported

    @binance BROOO WTF

  • DSKkhanii
    DSK KHANii (@DSKkhanii) reported

    @Muqeem94 Use the official Binance app or website to create your crypto account

  • ArslanOnChain
    Arslan (@ArslanOnChain) reported

    A member asked me to analyze this . This is $SYRUP. Price is 0.2064. It already ran from 0.113 to 0.670. Now it is sitting in the middle after that dump. Market cap is $246.5M. Open Interest is $29.8M. Futures volume is $28.4M. Spot is only $4.8M. Volume jumped 61%. Open Interest jumped 25%. That means new leverage just entered. Now the wallet. 0xaA3D56e9695F75eEcd6E3E78546154b727147b8a Labeled Arca on Arkham. Total portfolio around $12.92M. This wallet is holding 22.597M $SYRUP worth $4.68M. The bag was built in two parts. Eight to nine months ago it withdrew from Binance around 15.655M $SYRUP. Those fills were near $0.26. Cost on that slice was about $4.10M. One day ago it added another 6.942M $SYRUP from Binance. That add was $1.28M. Average on the new slice is about $0.184. Full bag average is near $0.238. Current price is 0.206. So the old coins are still in loss. The new 6.94M add is already in profit. On the full 22.6M position this wallet is still down about $700k. That matters. This is not a fresh wallet flipping a new gem. This is a large holder adding on the dip while the older bag is still red. A $61.3k sell wall is sitting at 0.2126. That order can be cancelled. It is not a wall that stops the whole coin. Positioning is split. Binance accounts: 0.95 Top trader accounts: 1.25 Top trader positions: 4.04 Accounts are mixed. The big positions are heavily long. Spot flow is cleaner than the perps. Exchanges saw about $28k net outflow in 24 hours. Top PnL wallets added. Fresh wallets added. Binance wallet 0x3304e2 added 70k in 24 hours, but reduced 79k over 7 days. Token millionaire 0x342bd0 added 43.5k in 24 hours. On Hyperliquid the book is conflicted. Smart traders are net long about $394k. Whales are net short about $720k. Combined that book is still net short about $322k. Funding is positive, so longs are paying shorts. Base liquidity is thin. That means one order can move this faster than the chart looks. My read is simple. This is not a clean gem. This is a mid-cap with a large holder adding, leverage rising, and perps fighting each other. If price holds above 0.196, the next test is the 0.212 sell order and then 0.230. If 0.196 fails, the same leverage can send it back toward 0.170. A break under 0.170 opens 0.140. I’m watching the Arca wallet and that 0.2126 order first. If the wallet keeps adding and 0.196 holds, the long side gets another push. If whale shorts grow and 0.196 breaks, this is not the gem yet.

  • CryptrixLabs
    Cryptrix Labs (@CryptrixLabs) reported

    ENA is a knife-catch here, not a setup — it needs to reclaim and hold above $0.154 on the 4-hour chart before it's worth a second look. The daily just printed a sharp 6%+ red candle after an already stretched run higher. That kind of drop almost always needs time to cool off before buyers show up with real size. Price is now leaning on a shelf around $0.149, but the 4-hour chart shows a clean double-top near $0.160 and momentum is still pointing down, not curling back up. Zoom in and it gets worse: on both the 4-hour and 1-hour charts, price is sitting below the average level recent buyers came in at. In plain terms, most people who bought over the last several days are underwater — and that crowd tends to sell into the first bounce just to get out flat. The 15-minute chart has a tiny flicker of buying, but volume is running around half of normal and price hasn't reclaimed its short-term trend line yet. Not the footprint of buyers stepping in with conviction. The backdrop isn't helping either. The US dollar is pushing higher and money is rotating into Bitcoin and out of altcoins — the exact environment where weak alt bounces get sold. The line in the sand is $0.154 on the 4-hour. Reclaim and hold above it and the bearish read is wrong; until then, this one stays on the watchlist, not in the basket. — 📡 On the Radar · $ENA · Available on Binance & MEXC

  • Matijass96
    MaTii (@Matijass96) reported

    @BinanceHelpDesk Hello, I have already contacted technical support in the Binance application about this. However, technical support only pastes me a message that I got on my e-mail that you are closing on October 1st and that's it. Co mogę więcej zrobić?

  • idro___
    beaver quant (@idro___) reported

    @OctopusTakopi Heard of feeds from Binance faster for some clients Like some MMs having access to faster feeds. And some of them reselling the feeds to smaller teams

  • cangg_l
    Canglong (@cangg_l) reported

    @0xCryptoPirates @binance KYC photo issues lets simplify

  • OakFlow111
    Маша Малолина (@OakFlow111) reported

    Please contact me if you have any Binance perpetual contract projects requiring a market maker. We can provide full funding. If your project has already received an offer from Binance but lacks the necessary capital, we can also provide support. case:pls DM

  • Crypto_guy000
    Signal.guy1 (@Crypto_guy000) reported

    For now, Bitcoin is on support. Binance #STPT/ $USDT Take-Profit target 3 ✅ Profit: 11.8954% 📈 Period: 1 Days 4 Hours 13 Minutes ⏰

  • I4NFTS
    👀 🐂🀄️ (@I4NFTS) reported

    Holy ****, this market is so crazy right now. ethereum:0x07f5b6823751c2e2cd4560f28af75ff887102241 with the Robinhood listing this morning, $flork with the binance alpha listing If you can't see the writing on the wall that we are entering a glorious giga bull period for memes than I don't know what to tell you the whole bear market as we were careening lower, exchanges didn't touch memes or participate at all. they didn't bullpost them, they didn't list them, they didn't interact with them now we have robinhood listed them, coinbase listing them, binance spot I'm sure will begin listing them the appetite is back and exchanges are getting the best ones front and center for the upcoming bull run beautiful days ahead

  • CryptrixLabs
    Cryptrix Labs (@CryptrixLabs) reported

    ETHFI is stuck right under a ceiling near $0.560–$0.562 — until it closes cleanly above that on the 4-hour chart, this is one to watch, not chase. The math on the trade just doesn't work here. Price is pinned about 1% below that ceiling — a lid that has swatted rallies back down repeatedly — while the nearest real floor on the 4-hour chart sits all the way down near $0.445. That's roughly ten times more room to fall than to rise. Buying into that setup means paying full price for the upside and taking the full tab on the downside. Zoom in and it gets worse. The 1-hour chart is tracing a twin-peak shape right into that same ceiling — the classic footprint of buyers running out of ammo at a level they've already failed to break. A short-term bounce from washed-out conditions is possible, but bouncing straight into a proven wall is not the same thing as breaking through it. The backdrop isn't helping either. Bitcoin and Ethereum are both drifting lower on the 4-hour chart, money is rotating out of alt-coins and back into Bitcoin, and the US dollar is grinding higher — three headwinds that historically drag names like ETHFI down with them. What flips this: a clean 4-hour close back above $0.562 with Bitcoin turning up alongside it. That breaks the ceiling and puts ETHFI back in play. Until then, it's on the radar — not in the mix. — 📡 On the Radar · $ETHFI · Available on Binance & MEXC

  • Xalrio
    Akuyuki (@Xalrio) reported

    @asparagoid It is close to impossible for Coinbase to ever rebuild trust after all the shenanigans they've done with Base. They have betrayed over and over again their users and they never once listened to what was asked for. Coinbase is same like Binance with some extra Temu glitter on top

  • inthepixels
    Brian Cohen (@inthepixels) reported

    YTD — The 2026 Outlier Index: What Actually Won Across Crypto, Stocks and ETFs Year-to-date through early September 2026, the Outlier Index tells a very different story from the familiar market averages. The S&P 500 is up only around 10–12%. Bitcoin $BTC and many of the largest cryptocurrencies have struggled. Yet enormous returns have appeared elsewhere: in crypto, storage, semiconductors, AI infrastructure, South Korea and—in one spectacular case—tanker-freight futures. Zcash $ZEC and the Grayscale Zcash ETF $ZCSH belong in this conversation. But they are not at the top of it. That distinction matters. This is not an attempt to construct a leaderboard that Zcash conveniently wins. It asks a more interesting question: What actually won in 2026 once we remove microscopic assets, securities that remain OTC, and conventional 2x/3x leveraged products—and require enough size for the return to matter? The answer leads to a concept conventional performance tables often obscure: return at scale. Building the Outlier Index The screen is simple. Crypto: market capitalization of at least $100 million. Stocks: market capitalization of at least $100 million, currently listed on the New York Stock Exchange, Nasdaq or NYSE American. Securities that remain on OTC Markets are excluded. However, a security that began 2026 on the OTC market and was subsequently uplisted to a qualifying major exchange remains eligible. The Outlier Index measures where an asset stands now; an earlier OTC listing does not erase a later uplisting. ETFs: U.S.-listed, generally with at least $100 million in assets. Conventional daily-reset 2x and 3x leveraged or inverse products are excluded. This distinction matters for the Grayscale Zcash ETF $ZCSH. It began the year as the OTC-traded Grayscale Zcash Trust before being uplisted to NYSE Arca and converted into an ETF. Its OTC history is therefore part of its 2026 return story, not grounds for excluding it. The objective isn't to discover the most mathematically extreme security hiding somewhere in the market. It is to identify extraordinary returns occurring at enough size, liquidity and accessibility to matter. Then we accept whatever survives the screen—even when we don't particularly like the answer. Crypto: Three Very Different Kinds of Winner Hyperliquid $HYPE is one of the cleanest large-cap crypto winners. By early September it trades around $82, with approximately $18 billion of market capitalization, attached to what has become a major decentralized perpetual-futures trading ecosystem. That scale is important. This isn't a tiny token moving several hundred percent because a few million dollars arrived. Billions of dollars of market value have been created around an operating crypto platform. Then there is one of the year's truly extraordinary percentage moves. Venice Token $VVV is up roughly 900% YTD. $VVV began the year around $1.60–$1.65 and by early September trades around $16, giving it a market capitalization around $750–800 million. That is roughly a tenfold increase in eight months. More interestingly, $VVV is attached to an operating product. It is the native economic asset associated with Venice AI, the privacy-focused artificial-intelligence platform co-founded by Erik Voorhees. That places Venice in an unusual position in the 2026 market. The AI trade did not remain confined to semiconductor companies, storage manufacturers and server makers. It reached crypto. And Venice introduces an idea that will become important later: $VVV is an economic asset attached to private AI. $ZEC is an economic asset attached to private money. Then there is Binance Life, the English rendering of the Chinese-named BNB Chain meme token. We include Binance Life reluctantly.

  • bearbullbunny_
    BearBullBunny (@bearbullbunny_) reported

    @FriedrichBtc bitcoin:native at $77,233, down about 1% in the last 24h on Gate/Bybit/HL/Binance. Longs are the ones bleeding desk wide: $141.55M long liqs vs $40.57M short in that window. Biggest single sell was $10.33M bitcoin:native on Bybit.

  • Bitt_Belle
    Belle (@Bitt_Belle) reported

    Creating a Binance account is simple when you follow the correct steps. Start by downloading the official @binance application or visiting the official website. Check the link carefully before entering any information. You can register with your email address or phone number. Use a strong password that you do not use anywhere else. The next step is KYC. During identity verification, enter the same information shown on your official ID. Upload a clear photo of the document and complete the face check. Once your crypto account is verified, secure it before adding funds. Enable 2FA or a passkey. Set an anti-phishing code and never share your password or verification codes. After that, learn how deposits, withdrawals and fees work. Explore only the services available in your region and start with a small amount. Creating an account takes a few minutes. Learning how to use it safely matters much more. Educational content only. NFA. Availability may vary by region. #Binance #LearnWithBinance #BinanceAcademy

  • Kekius007
    Nova 加密货币 (@Kekius007) reported

    @Alek_Carter @binance @BinanceAcademy Better to get the basics right from day one than fix mistakes later.

  • Wholashile
    Horlashile🦾 (@Wholashile) reported

    @ifwraviel @binance Gm dad please send help

  • SatoshiMaverick
    Yes (@SatoshiMaverick) reported

    @LeonidasNFT @binance @cz_binance because we don't you, a nobody to get rich. If you want to have it listed, pay you broke piece of garbage

  • Binance707
    BeardedFather🫧 (@Binance707) reported

    Most people look at $BASED the wrong way.They compare the app’s volume to Phantom and MetaMask, see a $16m coin sitting on the floor after a 150-day grind, and call it dead.That’s frontend analysis. The token is a different trade.Phantom, MetaMask, Rabby don’t have a thin Bybit token that reprices the Hyperliquid consumer layer. Trust Wallet has TWT — and TWT is a Binance-wallet coin, not a pure HL-native bet. Based is one of the only low-cap tokens that actually sits on top of Hyperliquid’s order flow, card, perps, stocks, and agents.~100m of 235m circ is staked. The float is tighter than the chart looks. On Bybit, that profile doesn’t wait for perfect fundamentals. Garbage listings print 20–50x on narrative and liquidity alone. This isn’t garbage. It’s a real product with $45B+ routed volume and Hyperliquid behind it.Hyperliquid is the venue. Based is a levered chip on the interface. If the market starts pricing “HL goes onshore / Clarity week / US perps,” it won’t carefully allocate to the best wallet by 30-day volume. It will buy the smallest liquid token tied to the stack.Volume leaders don’t always own the token. The token owns the story. $BASED #Hyperliquid #Robinhood

  • almond_env
    Kingnana (@almond_env) reported

    @saimunbnb @binance Please why is the link not working again?

  • Hasimgunes21
    HgHg (@Hasimgunes21) reported

    @cz_binance I will ask you everyday. Why dont you stop bouncebit thieves? İs your exchange binance for **** coin, thief coin exchange? Tell us When will you obstruct bouncebit thieves?

  • cryptomansui
    Tee🌹 (@cryptomansui) reported

    ETH/USDT current price (September 3, 2026) ≈ 2404.27 On-chain data: Funding rate: Binance ETHUSDT perpetual contract +0.01% / 8 hours, annualized approximately +10.95%. Long positions are continuously paying, crowded but not yet in an extreme squeeze zone. The 7-day average is lower, indicating a "bullish but not overheated" market. OI: Different metrics. Binance perpetual contracts are $5.5 billion, accounting for approximately 23.6%; the total visible across all platforms is $10.7-23 billion. Short-term OI (On-Time Inflow) is down approximately 3.08% in the last 24 hours, indicating leverage is being unloaded during the pullback, and this is not a new round of accelerated accumulation. Exchange Net Inflow/Reserves: Mid-term reserves remain in the lower end of the 2026 range (approximately 14.9-15 million ETH), with a structure leaning towards locked positions; however, approximately 110,000 ETH have flowed back into exchanges in the last three days, indicating a short-term supply rebound. Whales have made a net purchase of approximately +$82.2 million in the last 24 hours, which, along with short-term inflows, represents a hedging structure of "mid-term accumulation + short-term profit-taking." ETH.D: Approximately 11.10%-11.20%. BTC.D: Approximately 59.6%. Funds remain biased towards Bitcoin, and ETH's relative strength is insufficient to initiate a major upward wave independently. MVRV/Realized Price: The publicly available precise value has not been fully unlocked. Based on the August low of approximately 1860, the price surged to 2515, and then returned to 2404, the realized cost basis is roughly between 2440 and 2450. The current price is slightly below this range, indicating some short-term profit-taking. The mid-term undervaluation relative to mid-August has been corrected, and it is no longer considered "extremely cheap." Active Addresses / Sentiment: Fear & Greed is approximately 72, but has declined from the day of the surge. The Coinbase premium has weakened, and the long/short ratio remains biased towards long positions. Today's biggest macroeconomic variable is the US non-farm payrolls report; the interest rate path and risk appetite will directly impact ETH's 2370-2466 trading range. Price range conclusion: Upward price: 2428.00 / 2448.00 / 2466.53; Downward price: 2372.00 / 2356.41 / 2333.00; Price range: 2375.00–2428.00. Today's hexagram = Mountain over Water (4th hexagram) The hexagram Meng says: A spring emerges from beneath the mountain, but it is dangerous and stops there. Inside is water, outside is a mountain. The water is blocked inside the mountain, not because it has dried up, but because it has not yet found an outlet. This perfectly reflects the current market situation: From August 19th to 21st, the price surged from approximately 1917 to 2515, a surge resembling a "spring gushing forth." Subsequently, since August 22nd, it has fluctuated between the highs of 2420 and 2515. On September 1st and 2nd, it closed lower for several consecutive days, falling from 2466.53 to 2390.91, a situation where the upward momentum is blocked by the terrain. The hexagram Meng (meng) states, "Success. It is not I who seek the ignorant youth, but the ignorant youth who seeks me. The first divination is auspicious; repeated divinations are disrespectful, and disrespect will not be answered." In trading, this means: the first inquiry can provide direction, but repeated inquiries and orders are disrespectful. Today is not a day for "adding leverage to gamble on a breakout," but a day for "waiting for enlightenment and confirmation." The second line, "Embracing the ignorant brings good fortune," and the top line, "Striking the ignorant," both suggest: one can teach and awaken, but one must not be confused oneself first. In terms of the Five Elements, outer earth overcomes inner water. The outer trigram represents the three days that have already passed (Yang-Yin-Yin external momentum accumulating into Earth), while the inner trigram represents the three days that occurred earlier, representing Water. Earth overcomes Water = external pressure suppresses internal flow, hence the daily chart shows downward strength, but this doesn't necessarily mean the trend has turned bearish—the mountain also represents stop-loss and water accumulation. The large bullish candle throughout August is still present, and the weekly chart is still in the first phase of digestion after the surge, so the hexagram doesn't indicate a collapse, but rather "high-level obscurity, initial confinement followed by enlightenment." Expected 24-hour outlook: Slightly weak consolidation. Central range: 2386.00–2412.00. A valid upward move requires a firm hold above 2428.00 and a pullback that doesn't break 2412.00; a valid downward move requires a break below 2356.00 and an hourly close below it. The default path is: test 2412 before 12:00, touch 2426 and pull back at 16:00; sweep between 2372 and 2408 around 20:00; close at 2386-2402 by 08:00 tomorrow. Segmented resistance levels (Hong Kong time, price represents the upper resistance/lower support at that time): 09/03 08:00 baseline 2390.91, midline of the trading range. 09/03 12:00 resistance 2412.00, support 2384.00. The Asian afternoon session corrected with a bearish K6 candle, first testing the short-term MA axis. 09/03 16:00 resistance 2426.00, support 2388.00. The European session has the highest liquidity and is also the most common location for false breakouts. September 3rd, 20:00: Resistance at 2408.00, Support at 2372.00. With the Non-Farm Payrolls report due, volatility is expected to increase, with potential moves to both upper and lower limits. September 4th, 00:00: Resistance at 2396.00, Support at 2368.00. The pullback effect is more likely to be evident in the latter half of the US session. September 4th, 04:00: Resistance at 2388.00, Support at 2356.00. Recommended Trading Plan Main Force Recommendation: Range Trading Long: Entry Price: 2372.00–2382.00 Take Profit: 2418.00 / 2448.00 Stop Loss: 2352.00 Position Size: No more than 2.00% Short: Entry Price: 2426.00–2436.00 Take Profit: 2392.00 / 2372.00 Stop Loss: 2458.00 Position Size: No more than 2.00% Position Suggestions and Risk Control: A stop loss must be placed. 1. The current price of 2404.27 is at the midpoint of the trading range, not an entry point. Wait for the end of the range before making a move. 2. If the 1-hour closing price falls below 2333.00, cancel the long position and only keep the short position. 3. If the price breaks above 2466.53 with high volume and retraces but doesn't break 2448.00, cancel the short position and only keep the long position. 4. Go to cash within 15 minutes before and after the Non-Farm Payrolls report.

  • AloneTrader_18
    Alone Trader_18 (@AloneTrader_18) reported

    @Xander__BTC Use the official Binance app or website

  • Haber953901
    Haber (@Haber953901) reported

    @theunipcs help me. I sent my Ethereum from my Uniswap account to my Binance ERC-20 address, but it didn't arrive in my Binance account. What can I do to recover my funds? That was all the money I had, man. Tx: 0x58c79ac78579559e75cd780c3ea93c52a73647b376d05bd9205d6433a6196437 @binance

  • aureayutrades
    ayu trades - spaylater, ggives, etc. (@aureayutrades) reported

    trade service ~ → load to cash (regular load & load card) → paypal to cash | gcash to paypal → binance to cash | gcash to binance → not verify balance transfer (gcash, maya, grab pay, shopee, lazada) → paypal permanent limit withdrawal (180 days)

  • CryptrixLabs
    Cryptrix Labs (@CryptrixLabs) reported

    AAVE isn't a setup worth chasing here — it's pinned under a ceiling near $128 with a floor almost 5% below at $121, and only a clean 4-hour close above $128 puts it back in play. The shape of this chart is the problem. Price is squeezed against resistance with less than 1% of headroom, but nearly five times that much air underneath before the next real support. That's a poor risk trade-off on its own — very little room to run, a lot of room to fall — and short-term momentum on the 4-hour still hasn't turned up to argue otherwise. The backdrop isn't helping either. Bitcoin is soft on the same timeframe, the US dollar has been grinding higher all week (which tends to lean on crypto broadly), and what money is rotating is quietly moving back into Bitcoin rather than out into smaller names like AAVE. Zoom out and the daily chart has already delivered a large move and looks stretched, so buyers stepping in up here are paying a premium into a tired trend. The one genuine positive is that actual usage of the protocol is ticking up in the background — a mild tailwind, but not enough to override everything else lined up against it right now. Two things would change the picture: a proper pullback into the $121–$123 area that sees real buying show up, or a decisive 4-hour candle that closes above $128 and holds. Until one of those happens, AAVE is worth watching, not leaning into. — 📡 On the Radar · $AAVE · Available on Binance