Tag Archives: Changpeng Zhao (CZ Binance)

A hedge fund manager whose firm was ravaged by FTX’s November collapse is now warning of a second-coming “implosion” at Binance. On Tuesday, Ikigai Asset Management founder Travis Kling published a historical timeline outlining a history of “negative events” at Binance since December 2022, attracting attention from some of the exchange’s top brass. How Binance Resembles FTX Kling’s timeline includes over 40 events that have cast a shadow of doubt over Binance’s...

The Chief Executive Officer of Binance – Changpeng Zhao (CZ) – said one reason why his company recently introduced the stablecoin FDUSD is the terminated partnership with Paxos. While the two entities teamed up in 2019 to launch the USD-denominated BUSD, the New York state regulators told Paxos to stop minting new tokens earlier this year. CZ said that, as of the moment, Binance has no intention to list its own stablecoin but rather collaborate with other companies focusing...

The world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange – Binance – will purportedly launch services on its new platform in Japan next month.  The firm pulled out of the Land of the Rising Sun in 2018 after having a major dispute with the local regulators.  Binance’s CEO – Changpeng Zhao (CZ) – has supposedly confirmed the news in a video conference in Tokyo on July 25 (as seen by Bloomberg). The exchange previously announced that it will start operating on the Japanese market after June...

Several traditional media outlets reported recently that Binance, the world’s largest crypto exchange, has or will have to dismiss thousands of employees in the wake of its legal battle with US regulators. The company’s CEO confirmed the layoffs but disagreed with the “FUD” reported numbers of terminated staff members. CNBC, WSJ Reports Citing a person familiar with the matter, the Wall Street Journal claimed on Friday that Binance had already dismissed over 1,000 people as...

Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, is celebrating its sixth anniversary today. In commemoration of the feat, the exchange’s founder and CEO, Changpeng Zhao (CZ), has reminisced on several events since the platform’s launch. In a statement sent to CryptoPotato, the CEO revealed that Binance was launched in 2017 with $15 million worth of digital assets as a crypto-to-crypto exchange with five tokens and two languages. At the time, the company had no customer...

Changpeng Zhao – CEO of crypto exchange Binance – believes his company has formed “a tight team” partly due to the “Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt” (FUD) that surrounds it on a regular basis.  The firm has been coping with regulatory issues with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the Department of Justice (DOJ), and other watchdogs over the years. CEO Zhao has been constant in his statements, claiming Binance cooperates with regulators, whereas some media outlets have...

Changpeng Zhao (CZ), the CEO and founder of leading crypto exchange Binance, announced that his company’s users, assets, and platform were unaffected by the recent hack on the cross-chain router protocol Multichain. The Binance boss tweeted that the exchange had finalized all asset swaps and closed deposits a while before the incident occurred. Binance Unaffected by Multichain Exploit On July 6, Multichain experienced abnormal outflows from its bridge contracts to an unknown...

A slew of senior executives at Binance are reportedly fleeing en masse as the company grapples with a massive lawsuit from the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and a Justice Department investigation into its CEO Changpeng Zhao (CZ). One executive – former Chief Strategy Officer Patrick Hillman – has already confirmed his departure. Chaos In Binance’s Ranks? A report from Fortune on Thursday claimed that general counsel Han Ng and SVP for Compliance Steven Christie...

Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao (CZ) explained on Wednesday why Binance spends time supporting cryptocurrencies and blockchains beyond those it chiefly develops. While the executive remained optimistic about the BNB Chain ecosystem, he said that he personally is a “heavy promoter of Bitcoin (BTC).” Are Binance’s Blockchain Centralized? In an AMA hosted over Twitter on Wednesday, a questioner raised concerns that the “Binance Blockchain” isn’t being promoted by its namesake company...

A low-profile but highly influential senior executive at Binance has spoken out as the company begins legal battles against two top market regulators in the United States. Yi He, who boasts a massive fortune as one of the company’s early shareholders, has also had children with Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao (CZ). The SEC Lawsuit He spoke to Bloomberg in a series of interviews – one of which took place in Dubai last month, shortly before the Securities and Exchange Commission...