Binance Life offers a rare insider perspective. From CZ's own writing, we can see the most authentic cracks in this world's largest cryptocurrency exchange. He packaged almost all the crises as "We survived." His tone was restrained, and his narration was light. But behind those understated paragraphs lie several wounds that have never truly healed. These predicaments are not unique to Binance; they are a bill that the entire crypto industry must inevitably pay as it transitions from a period of unregulated growth to one of stricter regulation. Seven Years of Exile: Shanghai, Tokyo, Malta, Singapore, Dubai. What appears to be a roadmap for global expansion is, in reality, a history of exile by regulatory bodies.
2018Year4Month,CZ made a special trip to Bermuda to meet with the Prime MinisterDavid Burt
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In the Asia region, the regional headLeonWithout fully reporting, he unilaterally signed a contract to advance tens of millions of dollars in losses for users, with an additional clause stating that if the funds are recovered in the future, the proceeds will belong to the original management. Even more absurdly, the local board of directors has already signed off on it, including two members of Binance's management team. Someone within the company was simultaneously on both the buyer's and seller's sides in the same transaction. It was only later discovered that CZ concluded: "Binance expanded too quickly, and many people with impure motives infiltrated the team; management couldn't keep up." When a company expands to thousands of people in a very short period, management methods built on trust and value-based screening begin to fail.
2025At the end of the year, He Yi officially took over as UnitedCEO, tied withRichard Tengtied——It's easier to ask for forgiveness than permission
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2026In 2026, an Australian subsidiary was still fined AUD 10 million for misclassifying customersMiCAThe EU MiCA license application is still pending. It means that every subsequent license application and every bank negotiation must be accompanied by this record. A guilty plea is the end, but also a beginning in another sense. He later said that if he hadn't been greedy for the huge size of the US market in his early years, he might not have suffered such a costly reckoning. Highly Personalized Credit Endorsements In November 2023, before deciding to fly to the United States to plead guilty, CZ... The text="">held its last online meeting:“If I don't go, the Biden administration will kill Binance,BNB holderswill be severely damaged, and the industry may regress to10"
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YearSilvergate, Signature and other crypto-friendly banks have collapsed one after another, leavingCoinbase、