Binance has taken another step toward becoming a full multi-asset venue by introducing options on more than 1,000 selected U.S.-listed stocks and exchange-traded funds. The product went live on September 1, 2026, and is available only to eligible customers outside the United States.
The contracts are offered through Nest Trading Limited, Binance’s broker-dealer licensed by the Abu Dhabi Global Market.
Nest functions as the introducing broker and sends orders to Alpaca Securities LLC, a US-registered self-clearing firm that handles execution, clearing, settlement, and custody.
The arrangement mirrors the structure Binance already uses for its cash-equity offering of more than 7,000 U.S. stocks and ETFs.
Unlike many crypto-native derivatives, these options settle physically.
When a contract is exercised, the holder receives or delivers the actual underlying shares, which Alpaca holds in custody on behalf of the user.
Exercise instructions must be submitted at least 30 minutes before expiration.
In the first phase, customers may only buy calls and puts; writing options or taking short option positions is not yet supported. Orders are limited to limit orders only.
Trading is funded from the user’s Funding Wallet and can be paid primarily in USDC, with BNB, USDT, USD1, and $U accepted when available.
Commission is a flat $0.60 per contract, with no minimum fee or extra platform charges. Most contracts trade during regular US market hours, 9:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Eastern Time; certain ETF and ETN options remain open until 4:15 p.m.
The launch follows last month’s introduction of gold and silver commodity options and sits alongside Binance’s equity-linked perpetual futures.
Those perpetuals generated roughly $433 billion in volume in August 2026, illustrating growing demand for traditional-market exposure on a crypto platform.
Binance executives have framed the options rollout as a way to give international users tools previously available mainly through conventional brokers, all inside a single account that already holds crypto, stocks, tokenized securities, and commodities.
Buyers of these options face defined risk: the most they can lose is the premium paid.
The product therefore offers a relatively straightforward way for retail traders in emerging markets—who accounted for more than 80 percent of early stock trading volume after the June equities launch—to express directional views or hedge existing share holdings without taking on unlimited downside.
Binance has indicated that additional tickers will be added over time and that writing and short-option functionality may arrive in later phases.
For now, the offering remains restricted to long calls and puts on a curated list of US names.
Users must complete an options quiz and accept the relevant disclosures before they can trade. The move continues Binance’s broader strategy of blending digital-asset and traditional-finance products under one roof while routing the regulated securities activity through established US and ADGM intermediaries.