BlockBeats News, April 20, 2026—On the first day of the 2026 Hong Kong Web3 Carnival, Binance Co-CEO He Yi, participating in a fireside chat session on “Reshaping Convenience: The Next Decade of Web3, AI, and the Smart Economy,” stated:
“As the scale of the crypto industry continues to expand, with an increasing number of institutional users and more and more traditional finance entities starting to embrace crypto, you will find that this is actually an integration process. In this integration process, we will see some countries, some regulators leading the way, as they understand what crypto is and its significance to the entire financial system. Today, we may let some people take the initiative, take the lead in innovation. In this context, in Hong Kong, companies like Futu and Tiger Brokers have already begun to hold both stock assets and crypto assets simultaneously. Similarly, in the United States, companies like Robinhood are doing the same.”
“At Binance, I think we may not only want to tie ourselves to crypto or so-called stock assets. In fact, some time ago, we already launched some commodities, including crude oil, gold, silver, and so on. The trading volume of commodities on Binance has already accounted for a very high proportion within the traditional scale. Traditional finance may now see us as a threat; perhaps they will also chant ‘down with crypto.’ But I think the longer-term future is when you want to become a fundamental financial infrastructure, you actually don’t need to pay too much attention to whether you are Crypto or TradFi. Because when we label ourselves, that label is a process of boxing ourselves in. When you break through that boundary and return to the origin, the questions you should be considering are: What have you done for the financial freedom of this world? What have you done for financial equality, making ordinary people’s lives better? I think it’s a very first-principles starting point.”
