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Binance Stock Trading Sees Strong First-Week Demand, With One in Four Users Under 25

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Just one week after launch, emerging-market users drove over 80% of direct stock trading volume on Binance, while nearly 40% of trades were placed under US$100 — underscoring demand for lower-barrier access to equities among eligible users

ABU DHABI, UAE, June 10, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — The world’s leading blockchain infrastructure provider Binance today released first-week data from its newly launched stock trading offering. The data shows substantial early momentum and signs that lower investment thresholds are helping bring a broader population into equity markets for the first time.

“The first week of stock trading on Binance reinforces what we set out to do: make it easier for eligible users in supported markets to access the financial markets that matter to them,” said Shunyet Jan, Head of Spot and Derivatives Business at Binance. “The data shows that when the barriers come down, people show up — from emerging markets, from younger demographics, and in trade sizes that traditional platforms were never designed to serve. This is part of Binance‘s broader vision to become the financial super app for the world, where users can manage crypto, equities, payments, and more from a single trusted platform.”

Binance‘s stock trading offering reflects the company’s broader focus on expanding access to financial opportunities through lower barriers, flexible investment sizes, and digital-native infrastructure. By making it easier for eligible users to access equities with smaller amounts of capital, Binance is working to open the door to broader participation in traditional financial markets.

KEY HIGHLIGHTS FROM FIRST WEEK DATA SHOW

Approximately 25% of Binance‘s stock users were under the age of 25. A generational dimension is emerging. This is a cohort that has come of financial age in an era where crypto was often the most accessible entry point into markets due to lower minimums, no brokerage account required and being available on a smartphone. Stock trading on Binance now extends the same ease of accessibility to traditional equities. For younger investors who may have started with crypto, it represents a natural next step in their financial journey.

80%+ of stock trading volume came from emerging markets, where access to global equities has historically been limited by banking requirements, foreign-exchange costs, and high account minimums. Equity market participation outside the United States remains broadly below 20% of the population, even as U.S. equities account for roughly half of global market capitalisation. When access barriers come down, demand emerges quickly.

Nearly 40% of trades were placed under US$100, underscoring the role of fractional share access in reducing barriers to entry. Users can start investing on Binance from as little as US$5, compared with minimum deposits of US$500 to US$10,000 on many traditional brokerage platforms, a threshold that has historically excluded a significant share of would-be investors.

Assets under management in stocks on Binance surpassed US$400 million. Stock trading on Binance has shown strong early traction and conversion overall. Approximately one in ten unique visitors to the product page went on to register, with around 64% of those sign-ups going on to place a trade.

70% of users exhibited holding behaviour rather than same-day trading, indicating the product is being used as a longer-term investment vehicle rather than a short-term trading tool.

Binance users traded across more than 1,100 assets in the first week, with 124 assets each exceeding US$100,000 in traded value.

Sector allocation was led by Information Technology at 57%, followed by Funds and ETPs (20%), Communication Services (11%), and Financials (9%). Semiconductors and hardware stood out at the sub-sector level, capturing approximately 44% of total fund inflows. This reflects targeted user interest in the hardware infrastructure layer of the AI trade.

Top names by volume and open interest included MRVL, GOOGL, NVDA, NOK, QQQ, CRCL, CRWV, INTC, DRAM, and MU.

About Binance

Binance is a leading global blockchain ecosystem behind the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume and registered users. Binance is trusted by more than 320 million people in 100+ countries for its industry-leading security, transparency, trading engine speed, protections for investors, and unmatched portfolio of digital asset products and offerings from trading and finance to education, research, social good, payments, institutional services, and Web3 features. Binance is devoted to building an inclusive crypto ecosystem to increase the freedom of money and financial access for people around the world with crypto as the fundamental means.

For more information, visit: https://www.binance.com

Disclaimer: Direct stocks are available only to eligible users and subject to local regulatory requirements and product availability. Securities are subject to market and liquidity risk, price volatility, and potential loss of capital. This content is for informational purposes only and should not be construed as financial or investment advice. Users should make an independent assessment of any transaction in light of their own objectives and circumstances and consult their own advisers where appropriate.

Disclaimer: Nest Trading Limited acts as your introducing broker and routes your orders for Securities to its clearing broker partner, Alpaca Securities LLC, for execution, clearing, settlement and custody. Binance does not handle or custody your Securities. Securities are subject to high market and liquidity risk and price volatility, particularly outside traditional market hours. The value of your investment may go down or up and you may not get back the amount invested. You are solely responsible for your investment decisions and Binance is not liable for any losses you may incur. Past performance is not a reliable predictor of future performance. Before trading, you should make an independent assessment of the appropriateness of the transaction in light of your own objectives and circumstances, including the risks and potential benefits. Consult your own advisers, where appropriate. This information should not be construed as financial or investment advice. Binance may receive payment for order flow remuneration for directing your orders. For more information, see the applicable Terms of Use, Securities Trading Product Terms and Risk Warning.

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X Square Robot Open-Sources XRZero-G0 to Scale Robot Learning with Interfaces, Data Quality and Ratios

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XRZero-G0: A framework for high-quality robot-free data collection and embodied AI training

SHENZHEN, China, June 10, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Scaling embodied AI has long been bottlenecked by data. Teleoperating real robots is expensive and slow, yielding only a limited number of demonstrations per day. While robot-free data collection offers a promising alternative, the lack of systematic quality control and training integration has limited its effectiveness for policy learning.

X Square Robot announces the open-source release of XRZero-G0, a hardware-software co-designed framework for robot-free data collection, trainable policy generation, and real-robot evaluation. Alongside it, the team releases G0-Dataset, a large-scale validated multimodal dataset produced by XRZero-G0, providing reproducible high-quality robot-free data for the global robotics community.

Bridging robot-free and real-world perception

Physical robots perceive the world through multiple viewpoints, typically a head-mounted camera for global context and wrist-mounted cameras for fine-grained manipulation. In contrast, most robot-free systems rely only on wrist-view observations from human demonstrators, creating a gap between training and deployment.

XRZero-G0 addresses this gap with a multi-view aligned sensing system that aligns human demonstration with robot observation spaces.

The system combines a head-mounted camera and dual wrist cameras to capture both global context and detailed hand-object interactions. These synchronized observations are mapped into a shared representation compatible with robot perception.

A wearable VR interface and interchangeable grippers allow human operators to generate demonstrations that are directly transferable to different robot embodiments, enabling high-throughput robot-free data collection across diverse environments.

Making robot-free demonstrations truly trainable

Data quality has been a critical barrier in robot-free learning. XRZero-G0 formalizes trainability governance via a closed-loop Collection–Inspection–Training–Evaluation pipeline:

Observation level: multi-view geometric consistency suppresses visual-kinematic misalignment.Kinematic level: full-body inverse kinematics with collision and joint-limit constraints filters invalid trajectories.Policy level: real-robot playback serves as the final validation criterion.

This pipeline improves the usability of robot-free demonstrations, with experiments showing an effective data yield of around 85% under controlled experimental settings, significantly increasing the proportion of trainable samples.

A 10:1 mixing law reduces real-robot data requirements

A key finding of the XRZero-G0 study is that robot-free data and real-robot data can complement each other effectively.

Controlled experiments show that combining approximately 10 robot-free episodes with 1 real-robot episode achieves performance comparable to purely real-robot datasets in evaluated tasks.

Robot-free data provides broad behavioral coverage and task understanding, while a small amount of real-robot data anchors embodiment-specific factors such as motor latency and friction. This strategy reduces the need for real-robot data by up to 20× under experimental conditions.

G0-Dataset scales XRZero-G0 into a 2,000-hour dataset

Built on XRZero-G0, G0-Dataset provides over 2,000 hours of validated multimodal demonstrations spanning vision, tactile, and audio modalities.

The dataset integrates robot-free collection, automated quality inspection, mixed-data training, and real-robot evaluation for research purposes. G0-Dataset supports large-scale pretraining and cross-embodiment transfer experiments, providing a reproducible open resource for robotics research.

Zero-shot transfer across robot embodiments

Experiments indicate that policies trained with XRZero-G0 exhibit improved generalization across collection environments, including varying robot poses, table heights, and viewpoints.

They also demonstrate zero-shot cross-embodiment transfer ability in evaluated settings, where policies trained with mixed data can be transferred to unseen robot platforms without task-specific fine-tuning.

Building an open ecosystem

By open-sourcing XRZero-G0 and releasing G0-Dataset, X Square Robot provides hardware designs, automated inspection pipelines, training methodologies, and high-quality datasets to the research community.

These resources aim to accelerate the development of general-purpose robots and scalable embodied AI, supporting a transition toward more systematic and large-scale data generation approaches.

XRZero-G0 and G0-Dataset are now publicly available for researchers and developers worldwide.

Project Homepage: https://x2robot.com/x2go
Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.13001
Code: https://github.com/X-Square-Robot/XRZero-G0
Open Dataset: https://huggingface.co/datasets/x-square-robot/XRZero-G0-3K 

Media Inquiries: contact@x2robot.com

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StarHub’s Got You This June: Staying Connected at Home, Away and Everywhere in Between

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SINGAPORE, June 10, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Whether you’re gearing up for the World Cup, or simply looking for more value at home, here’s a quick look at what’s happening at StarHub this month.

Hub More. Save More. Worry Less. 
No two households are the same. That’s why Hubbing helps customers enjoy greater savings and peace of mind when they add on broadband, mobile and entertainment services. Build the perfect family plan with all-inclusive broadband from $29.55/month, up to 25% savings on more 5G Unlimited+ mobile lines and more ways to Hub with us

Find out more: https://www.starhub.com/personal/hubbing.html

From 8 June, look out for the limited edition Hubling™ Happy to Help Blind Box, available exclusively at StarHub retail stores. New customers who sign up for two eligible services will receive a Blind Box for free. Existing customers with one eligible service can add on one service, while those with two eligible services can add on or upgrade an existing service to qualify. Hidden inside 10 Blind Boxes are Golden Tickets, including two grand prizes of a 2D1N Family Retreat at Mandai Rainforest Resort with four tickets to one Mandai Wildlife Park (worth over $900) and $200 Grab vouchers. 

Visit StarHub’s Instagram page for more.  

The World Cup is Here. Don’t Miss a Match
Catch all 104 matches live on StarHub TV+ from 12 June with Mediacorp’s FIFA World Cup 2026™ Season Pass, available at $118 for new and existing customers. Sign up and receive $400 worth of Hisense TV and Samsung device vouchers. Find out more: https://www.starhub.com/personal/bundles/worldcup-2026.html

Looking to catch the action with fellow football fans? Join us at our next StarHub WatchParty on 28 June at Oasis Terraces, Punggol! Enjoy breakfast and family-friendly football carnival games from 9am before Argentina takes on Jordan at 10am. Check out StarHub’s Instagram page for the latest.

However June looks for you, StarHub’s got you.

About StarHub
StarHub is a leading homegrown Singapore company that delivers world-class communications, entertainment, and digital services. With our extensive fibre and wireless infrastructure and global partnerships, we bring to people, homes and enterprises quality mobile and fixed services, a broad suite of premium content, and a diverse range of communication solutions. We develop and deliver solutions incorporating artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, data analytics, Internet of Things, and robotics for corporate and government clients. 

StarHub is committed to conducting our business sustainably and responsibly. StarHub is named among TIME’s World’s Most Sustainable Companies 2025 and ranked as the world’s most sustainable wireless telecommunication provider on the Corporate Knights Global 100 (2025). StarHub also ranks 187 on the FORTUNE Southeast Asia 500 in 2025. Listed on the Singapore Exchange mainboard, StarHub is a component stock of the SGX iEdge Singapore Low Carbon Index, iEdge-OCBC Singapore Low Carbon Select 50 Capped Index; as well as the FTSE4Good Index series.   

 

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Systemair delivers future-proof swimming facility technology to Malmö

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SKINNSKATTEBERG, Sweden, June 10, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Systemair (NASDAQ Stockholm: SYSR) has been commissioned to deliver ventilation and dehumidification solutions for the new Heleneholm swimming facility in Malmö. The project is carried out together with the City of Malmö, NCC and Assemblin Ventilation AB, and marks an important step toward the next generation of sustainable aquatic centres.

The delivery includes both dry and wet air-handling units as part of a complete turnkey solution, developed in close collaboration with the customer. The delivery also includes specialised swimming facility technology from Menerga, part of the Systemair Group.

At the core of the system are Menerga’s advanced dehumidification units with integrated heat pumps using the natural refrigerant CO₂ (R744). The technology is entirely PFAS-free and enables highly efficient heat recovery to supply air, pool water and the building’s energy system.

“With our CO₂-based technology, we offer a future-proof solution that combines high energy efficiency with a completely natural and PFAS-free refrigerant – an important step toward more sustainable swimming facilities,” says Kent Granberg, Managing Director of Menerga Sweden.

The Systemair Group is currently the only company in Europe offering this type of CO₂-based technology for swimming pools. The installation at Heleneholmsbadet will be the second one in Sweden where Systemair uses CO₂  as a refrigerant.

“Thanks to the expertise within our Group, we can offer a complete and future-proof solution for complex swimming facility projects. For the customer, this means a reliable partner that takes full responsibility – from early design to final installation and optimised operation,” says Marcus Sandlund, Managing Director of Systemair Sweden.

The delivery will take place during 2026–2027 and includes integration with the building’s management system as well as a five-year warranty with a service agreement, making Heleneholmsbadet a reference project for the energy-efficient and sustainable swimming environments of the future.

For further information, please contact:
Cathrine Stjärnekull
Group Communications Director
cathrine.stjarnekull@systemair.com
+46 722406388

Systemair in brief

Systemair (SYSR) is a leading ventilation Group that helps improve the indoor climate through energy-efficient products and solutions. The Systemair Group is conducting business in 51 countries in Europe, North America, the Middle East, Asia, Australia and Africa. The Group’s products are mainly marketed under the Systemair, Frico, Fantech, and Menerga brands. In the 2025/26 financial year, the Systemair Group employed approximately 7,400 people and had sales of SEK 12.5 billion. Systemair has reported an operating profit ever since it was founded in 1974, and over the past 10 years growth averaged 7.7%. Systemair is listed on the Nasdaq Stockholm Large Cap List.

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