{"id":405464,"date":"2025-09-18T12:07:15","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T06:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/bnb-approaches-1000-as-binance-looks-to-escape-doj-monitor-crypto-news\/"},"modified":"2025-09-18T12:22:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T06:52:15","slug":"bnb-approaches-1000-as-binance-looks-to-escape-doj-monitor-crypto-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/bnb-approaches-1000-as-binance-looks-to-escape-doj-monitor-crypto-news\/","title":{"rendered":"BNB Approaches $1,000 as Binance Looks to Escape DoJ Monitor &#8211; Crypto News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>The US crackdown on the world\u2019s largest crypto exchange may be coming to a close, and founder Changpeng Zhao (CZ) hints at a return to Binance.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Binance Coin, now known as BNB, has hit another all-time high on the back of increased network activity and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2025-09-16\/binance-nears-deal-to-escape-compliance-monitor-imposed-by-doj\" target=\"__blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer \">reports<\/a> that Binance may be close to a deal to dodge the Department of Justice\u2019s compliance monitor.<\/p>\n<p>BNB is up 10% this week and 13.6% since the beginning of September to a new high of $992, or a $138 billion market capitalization. The new milestone marks a 35% increase from the token\u2019s last local high of $740 in December 2024.<\/p>\n<figure><figcaption class=\"text-center text-xs\">BNB Chart &#8211; CoinGecko<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Attention on the network has been bolstered over the last few days due to two breakout tokens in the form of STBL and ASTER. <\/p>\n<p>STBL is a new <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/DefiantNews\/status\/1966554542721679871\" target=\"__blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer \">stablecoin protocol<\/a> launched by Tether co-founder Reeve Collins, and Aster is a decentralized exchange (DEX) that Binance co-founder Changpeng Zhao (CZ) has been <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/cz_binance\/status\/1968358873556992120\" target=\"__blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer \">promoting<\/a> on X.<\/p>\n<p>Speculation surrounding CZ\u2019s return to Binance has also increased, after he removed \u201cex-Binance\u201d from his X bio and changed it to \u201cBinance,\u201d indicating that after his brief jail stint in 2024, Zhao may be planning on returning to the world\u2019s largest centralized exchange.<\/p>\n<p>BNB Chain trading volumes jumped over the last two days as traders flooded onto the network to purchase Aster and STBL tokens, resulting in the chain\u2019s largest daily DEX volumes since July.<\/p>\n<figure><img alt=\"Daily DEX Volume chart\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"672\" height=\"360\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"mx-auto h-full max-h-[242px] w-full max-w-[628px] object-contain\" style=\"color:transparent;background-size:cover;background-position:50% 50%;background-repeat:no-repeat;background-image:url(\"data:image\/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg' viewBox='0 0 672 360'%3E%3Cfilter id='b' color-interpolation-filters='sRGB'%3E%3CfeGaussianBlur stdDeviation='20'\/%3E%3CfeColorMatrix values='1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 100 -1' result='s'\/%3E%3CfeFlood x='0' y='0' width='100%25' height='100%25'\/%3E%3CfeComposite operator='out' in='s'\/%3E%3CfeComposite in2='SourceGraphic'\/%3E%3CfeGaussianBlur stdDeviation='20'\/%3E%3C\/filter%3E%3Cimage width='100%25' height='100%25' x='0' y='0' preserveAspectRatio='none' style='filter: url(%23b);' href='data:image\/jpeg;base64,\/9j\/2wBDAAYEBQYFBAYGBQYHBwYIChAKCgkJChQODwwQFxQYGBcUFhYaHSUfGhsjHBYWICwgIyYnKSopGR8tMC0oMCUoKSj\/2wBDAQcHBwoIChMKChMoGhYaKCgoKCgoKCgoKCgoKCgoKCgoKCgoKCgoKCgoKCgoKCgoKCgoKCgoKCgoKCgoKCgoKCj\/wAARCAAFAAoDASIAAhEBAxEB\/8QAFgABAQEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAQI\/8QAHBAAAgICAwAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAIBAwQRFDFU\/8QAFAEBAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABP\/EABcRAQADAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAEAAiH\/2gAMAwEAAhEDEQA\/AM44r0JUm8VGnXcyU8qry1gDC6GRhdDJ\/9k='\/%3E%3C\/svg%3E\")\" srcset=\"\/_next\/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.thedefiant.io%2Fpasted-1758159277277-png-8872b851-285d-4ae8-ae38-a2fcb5b5ccfb.png&#038;w=750&#038;q=100 1x, \/_next\/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.thedefiant.io%2Fpasted-1758159277277-png-8872b851-285d-4ae8-ae38-a2fcb5b5ccfb.png&#038;w=1920&#038;q=100 2x\" src=\"https:\/\/thedefiant.io\/_next\/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.thedefiant.io%2Fpasted-1758159277277-png-8872b851-285d-4ae8-ae38-a2fcb5b5ccfb.png&#038;w=1920&#038;q=100\"\/><figcaption class=\"text-center text-xs\">Daily DEX Volume &#8211; BNB Chain<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US crackdown on the world\u2019s largest crypto exchange may be coming to a close, and founder Changpeng Zhao (CZ) hints at a return to Binance. Binance Coin, now known as BNB, has hit another all-time high on the back of increased network activity and reports that Binance may be close to a deal to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":405465,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[274,273,272,244,266,271,268,270,269,267],"class_list":["post-405464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-de-fi","tag-crypto-finance","tag-decentralized-finance","tag-liquidity","tag-metamask","tag-pancake","tag-slippage","tag-sushiswap","tag-tronlink","tag-trust-wallet","tag-uniswap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=405464"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":405466,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405464\/revisions\/405466"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/405465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}