Question: When Binance founder Zhao pleaded guilty to violating anti-money laundering laws and was sent to prison, Binance injected billions into Trump's family business and Zhao received a pardon. Is that a conflict of interest?
Bessent: I'm unfamiliar with any of that.
I promise you it will all unfold and the community notes will be taken off my original post.
Binance is the problem, they’ve already been caught lying about multiple cease and desist orders.
When the truth comes out, just remember I warned you all from the start.
-Lewsiphur
🚨 BREAKING
A BILLION-DOLLAR MANIPULATION JUST HAPPENED ON $ETH/USD1 ON BINANCE.
INSIDERS WENT ALL-IN LONG WITH $1.5 BILLION TO LIQUIDATE ALL SHORTS.
THEY HAVE ALREADY MADE AROUND $5 BILLION IN JUST 20 MINUTES.
THIS IS PURE CRIME AND MANIPULATION!
CZ doesn’t want you to know about the multibillion dollar market makers he owns and uses to trade against Binance users
So naturally I will be tweeting about them all week 🤣
Wash trading is banned on the Stock and Commodity markets since 1933 yet has never been regulated in crypto.
The claims in this post align closely with allegations made by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in its June 2023 lawsuit against Binance, https://t.co/OyEGEW2cfy entities, and Changpeng Zhao (CZ). These were part of a broader set of 13 charges accusing them of securities violations, including misleading investors, operating unregistered exchanges, and mishandling customer funds.
Key documented points from the SEC complaint and related reporting include:
- Merit Peak Limited and Sigma Chain were entities owned and controlled by CZ.
- Merit Peak received billions in customer assets (e.g., reports of around $11 billion transferred via commingled accounts, including from a Seychelles-based firm and Binance.US-related flows).
- Sigma Chain acted as a market maker on https://t.co/OyEGEW2cfy and allegedly engaged in wash trading (trading between controlled accounts to artificially inflate volumes) from at least September 2019 to June 2022. This was described as strategic and targeted, often coinciding with key events like platform launches, token listings, or funding rounds. For example, one cited instance showed over 35% of certain trading volume attributed to Sigma Chain wash trades on specific days.
- These firms were allegedly used to divert or commingle customer funds, with transfers involving tens of billions across entities. One notable example: funds linked to these accounts reportedly contributed to purchases like an $11 million yacht.
- https://t.co/OyEGEW2cfy (via BAM Trading) was accused of misleading users and investors about the existence and adequacy of market surveillance/controls to prevent manipulative trading, while concealing the role of these affiliated (but undisclosed) market makers.
- Regarding "privileged access" or "black box" data: Reporting (e.g., from Reuters in 2023) described Binance's technology architecture for https://t.co/OyEGEW2cfy as involving a "BlackBox" system (managed by the international Binance side), where U.S. employees had limited visibility into order matching or execution. This setup allegedly gave Binance (and by extension CZ-controlled entities) significant operational insight or control, though the SEC focused more on commingling, diversion, and manipulative practices than explicitly on non-public data access for front-running or insider trading.
This will all be regulated away with Market Structure laws.
Make wash trading illegal in crypto.
IT IS NOT A CONSPIRACY THEORY THAT BINANCE TRADES AGAINST ITS OWN USERS 🧵
CZ OWNS TWO MARKET MAKERS CALLED MERIT PEAK AND SIGMA CHAIN THAT WERE PROVEN TO BE TRADING AGAINST BINANCE'S USERS WITH BILLIONS OF DOLLARS OF CZ'S MONEY
THESE FIRMS WERE GIVEN SPECIAL ACCESS TO INFORMATION INSIDE OF THE "BINANCE BLACK BOX" WHICH IS NOT AVAILABLE PUBLICLY GIVING THEM A MASSIVE INSIDER ADVANTAGE
THEY WOULD THEN WASH TRADE AND MANIPULATE THE MARKET IN ORDER TO LIQUIDATE USERS AND INFLATE VOLUME
CZ tells people he doesn’t trade. That’s because he doesn’t have to, he owns the market makers that do the trading for him.
Merit Peak and Sigma Chain, both owned by CZ, have been documented moving billions of dollars of his personal money.
These firms were given privileged access to non-public data inside Binance’s “black box” — information unavailable to regular users or even most insiders. That access created a structural, massive informational advantage.
With that edge, they reportedly:
- Engaged in large-scale wash trading
- Actively traded against Binance users
- Contributed to liquidations through aggressive positioning
- Helped inflate reported trading volume
This isn’t speculation about “CZ trading spot.” This is about the owner of the exchange controlling opaque market making entities that directly profit from and in many cases trade against the same retail and institutional users on his platform.
Binance is a not neutral venue, users are systematically disadvantaged by the people who own the house.
When the exchange owner also owns the biggest liquidity providers with insider-level data access, “not trading” becomes a distinction without a difference.
He doesn’t need to trade. His companies do it — with his money, his data advantage, and his platform.
You don’t hate CZ and Binance enough because you simply don’t know enough 🤷♂️
Absolutely crazy, @binance, the circus you are putting on now to polish your image.
Spare us the PR fairy tales. The data, the facts, and real answers about 10/10 matter a lot more.
🚨 BREAKING NEWS: SEC Examining Whether Binance Futures Triggered Cascading Liquidations on Oct 10, 2025
I dont know to what extent this is true, but I would love to see @cz_binance in jail. Not only for the 10/10 rating, but for everything Binance has caused to the crypto market.
🚨IT IS NOT A CONSPIRACY THEORY THAT BINANCE TRADES AGAINST ITS OWN USERS 🧵
CZ @cz_binance OWNS TWO MARKET MAKERS CALLED MERIT PEAK AND SIGMA CHAIN THAT WERE PROVEN TO BE TRADING AGAINST BINANCE'S USERS WITH BILLIONS OF DOLLARS OF CZ'S MONEY
THESE FIRMS WERE GIVEN SPECIAL ACCESS TO INFORMATION INSIDE OF THE "BINANCE BLACK BOX" WHICH IS NOT AVAILABLE PUBLICLY GIVING THEM A MASSIVE INSIDER ADVANTAGE
THEY WOULD THEN WASH TRADE AND MANIPULATE THE MARKET IN ORDER TO LIQUIDATE USERS AND INFLATE VOLUME
GET YOUR COINS OFF OF @BINANCE 🚨
Why is @Cointelegraph pushing Binance's propaganda?
Why are there zero crypto journalists investigating the victims of 10/10 that Binance is threatening to sue for speaking out on X?
Binance downfall arguably started on March 26, 2025 - with the JELLY token.
That’s when CZ tried a dirty manipulation + coordinated KOL attack to take down Hyperliquid. He failed.
What’s happening now isn’t FUD about Binance or CZ — it’s just karma catching up with all the shady moves.