Clarification requested: private research use of historical Spot Kline archives

[iolozhang]

Request

Binance Customer Support directed this request to the official repository for written clarification about historical data available from https://data.binance.vision/.

Dataset and intended use

• Binance Spot monthly Kline archives, approximately 2020-01 through 2024-12.
• Private, non-public quantitative research only.
• No trading, execution, account data, or redistribution of raw data.
• No public data API, bulk-download service, or publication of source archives.

Clarifications requested

1. Which Binance legal entity and authoritative policy or terms apply, including the policy link, version, and effective date.
2. Whether the README Licence: MIT statement applies to the downloadable historical data archives themselves, and how it interacts with any separate Binance Terms of Use or data-use terms.
3. Whether private long-term retention of these archive files is permitted.
4. Whether non-public backtesting and machine-learning model training using the archive data are permitted.
5. Whether non-public derived research outputs may be retained or used internally, provided raw data is not shared.
6. Any restrictions concerning territory, account or authentication, attribution, commercial use, redistribution, sublicensing, or publication of derived outputs.
7. For historical archives, whether applicable terms are determined by the archive coverage period, download date, or the current version of the terms.
8. If this public issue tracker cannot provide an authoritative answer, the appropriate official private escalation channel.

No personal, account, or proprietary data is included in this request. A link to the authoritative written policy would be appreciated.

Thank you.

[scottyholt08]

I have the same narrow one-owner, private, non-trading research-use question.

Could the maintainers also clarify whether the Spot archives include inactive or delisted symbols, and whether there is an authoritative correction, replacement, or version history beyond the repository update log?

No account, API key, private endpoint, commercial redistribution, or trading use is involved.

[Prasobchaikaewmugda]

Hello Binance Public Data team,

Binance Customer Support directed me to this official repository under Case #169328386 specifically for clarification about historical market data from data.binance.vision.

My intended use is:

Binance Spot BTCUSDT 1-minute historical Kline data
long-term local storage
private/internal quantitative research and backtesting
no redistribution or resale of the raw data
retention of internal derived outputs such as statistics, indicators, features, signals, model parameters, and backtest results

I am commenting on this existing issue rather than opening a duplicate because it already covers most of my questions.

I downloaded the current binance/binance-public-data repository for review. The README states:

Licence
MIT

However, I could not find a separate LICENSE file in the repository archive, so I would appreciate clarification on the scope of that statement.

Could you please confirm:

Does the README’s MIT licence apply to the downloadable historical market-data archives on data.binance.vision, or only to the repository code/materials?
Is long-term local retention of downloaded Spot historical archives permitted?
Is private/internal quantitative research and backtesting using those archives permitted?
May internally generated derived research outputs be retained without redistributing the raw Binance data?
If this private research later informs my own proprietary trading decisions, without redistributing the raw data or providing a data service, is any additional Binance market-data licence or permission required?
Which official Binance Terms, licence, or policy is authoritative for these uses?

If this public issue tracker cannot provide an authoritative answer, please identify the appropriate official Binance Legal / Market Data / Licensing escalation channel.

Thank you.