Binance’s New General Counsel On the Cutting Edge of Crypto Regulation

Each day brings “a legal question which there’s no precedent for,” says top lawyer Eleanor Hughes, as Binance works to build trust in the industry.

• 2023-07-26
• Eleanor Hughes CZ legal team legal principles General Counsel Binance

This Week on Crypto Twitter: Outrage Over the SEC Crypto Crackdown

Between bombshell lawsuits against two crypto titans and talk of a weekend Bitcoin dump, it's been a wild ride.

• 2023-06-12
• the SEC CZ securities offerings Coinbase SEC

Binance Hands Rising Star Teng Key Role to Replace CEO Zhao at Largest Crypto Exchange

Taking up an expanded role overseeing regional markets outside the U.S., former regulator Richard Teng wants to demonstrate Binance is “a new organization.”

• 2023-06-05
• Richard Teng Changpeng Zhao Singapore Exchange Binance CZ

Crypto founders optimistic about Beijing paper promoting Web3 despite no mention of cryptocurrency

Crypto founders, including Binance chief executive Zhao Changpeng, are talking up the Chinese government's support for Web3, tying a recent Beijing white paper to Hong Kong's efforts to become a crypto hub, as they face increasing regulatory scrutiny in other parts of the world. Zhao, Huobi adviser Justin Sun, and Animoca Brands co-founder and chairman Yat Siu all praised the report, titled "Beijing Internet 3.0: Innovation and Development White Paper", suggesting the moves in Beijing and Hong K

• 2023-05-30
• Web3 Beijing Hong Kong white paper Yat Siu Justin Sun China CZ

This Week on Crypto Twitter: CZ Calls Out Justin Sun, Sun Apologizes

One Web3 enthusiast started a viral rumor that Amazon will launch its own NFT marketplace on May 15.

• 2023-05-08
• Molly White CZ Robert F. Kennedy Jr. token distribution Tom Dunleavy Justin Sun

Binance CEO CZ, Crypto’s Most Powerful Man, Has More Than ‘FUD’ to Worry Him Now

(Bloomberg) -- “I’m not an anarchist,” Changpeng Zhao once said. “I don’t believe human civilization is advanced enough to live in a world with no rules.”Most Read from BloombergSaudi National Bank Chair Resigns After Credit Suisse RemarkBinance and Its CEO Sued by CFTC Over US Regulatory ViolationsSchwab’s $7 Trillion Empire Built on Low Rates Is Showing CracksFirst Citizens to Buy SVB After Biggest Failure Since 2008But now that the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission has sued Zhao and his

• 2023-03-28
• Changpeng Zhao Bloomberg US Commodity Futures Trading Commission CZ CFTC cryptocurrency exchange

Binance-WazirX Dispute Rages as the Indian Crypto Exchange Is Told to Move Funds out of Binance

The solution ostensibly ends worries about what would happen to customer funds if Binance and WazirX end their collaboration.

• 2023-02-03
• Changpeng Zhao Binance CoinDesk CZ Zanmai Labs