Guides
Understand trading products, follow practical steps, and learn about costs and risks.
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Binance Account Setup: Registration, KYC and Recovery
Set up a Binance account with a document checklist, verification troubleshooting and a recovery plan. Check product access before funding your account.
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How to Open an OKX Account: Eligibility and Verification
Learn what to prepare for OKX sign-up, how residence affects eligibility, how to handle pending KYC, and what to check before making a deposit.
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Tokenized Stocks vs Shares and Stock Perpetuals
Compare tokenized stocks, brokerage shares and stock perpetuals. Check ownership rights, on-chain access, ETF exposure and the product behind a familiar ticker.
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xStocks vs Ondo vs bStocks: Three Kinds of Stock Tokens Compared
A side-by-side comparison of xStocks, Ondo tokenized stocks and Binance bStocks: issuer, naming, chains, where to trade and how dividends are handled.
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How to Trade Stock Tokens and Stock Perpetuals: Binance and OKX
A four-step illustrated guide to finding a stock, checking eligibility, choosing a product and reviewing costs, with separate paths for Binance bStocks spot tokens and OKX stock perpetuals.
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How to Buy Stock Tokens on Solana: Wallet, Swap Steps and Avoiding Fakes
Step by step: swap USDC for stock tokens such as AAPLx and TSLAx with a Solana wallet, verify the official contract address to avoid copycats, and check price, liquidity and slippage.
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What Are Stock Perpetuals? How Funding Rates Work and How to Calculate Them
How stock perpetuals differ from stock tokens, leverage and liquidation risk, what funding rates mean, how often they settle and how to calculate them, and what to watch when the US market is closed.
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Why Stock Tokens Trade at a Premium or Discount to the Stock
The common reasons a stock token's price differs from the stock: mismatched trading hours, liquidity, shares per token and mint/redeem barriers, and how to use premium data to find a better price.
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Buying Stock Tokens by Region: Mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Southeast Asia
Which stock token venues you can use depends on where you live. The two layers of restrictions, what users in mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Southeast Asia should check, and how to use our region filter.
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Stock Tokens vs Brokers Like Futu, Tiger and Interactive Brokers
Stock tokens compared with buying shares through a broker: what you own, shareholder rights, dividends, trading hours, minimums, funding and investor protection.
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Do Stock Tokens Pay Dividends? How xStocks and Ondo Reinvest Them
Stock token dividends are usually reinvested rather than paid in cash. How xStocks, Ondo, bStocks and perpetuals handle dividends, why high-yield tokens look like they trade at a premium, and withholding tax.
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Can You Trade Stock Tokens on Weekends? Trading Hours and Price Gaps
US market sessions in Asian time zones, where stock token prices come from when the market is closed, why premiums widen and gaps appear at the open, and how to choose a venue off-hours.
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Pre-IPO Perpetuals: Pricing, Rights and IPO Transitions
Does a pre-IPO token give you shares? Identify perpetual contracts, check quote units and margin costs, and read the rules for an IPO delay or transition.
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Are Stock Tokens Safe? Issuer, Custody, Venue and Fake Token Risks
Stock token risks link by link: issuer, custodian, venue, smart contracts and fakes, price deviation and regulation, plus leverage risk on perpetuals and how to reduce risk.
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