Meanwhile, Changpeng Zhao still hasn’t addressed long-standing claims of crypto market manipulation.
After charges from the SEC and U.S. authorities.later pardoneed by Trump but the debate around his impact on the industry continues. $FKCZ
A year and a half ago, Changpeng Zhao was just getting out of jail. Now, crypto’s richest mogul has ridden a rebound in Binance’s valuation—and friends in high places—to his highest net worth ever.
Here's where CZ ranks on the #ForbesBillionaires list: https://t.co/i7l23p6fxv (📸: Krisztian Bocsi via Bloomberg)
Wild new report from Fortune detailing exactly how sanctioned Iranian groups (like the IRGC) moved over $1 billion through Binance in early 2025.
Who was running the accounts?
1️⃣ A 79-year-old Chinese VIP trader.
2️⃣ A suspected Iranian gold smuggler.
The elderly Chinese VIP alone moved $439 million in Tether over the Tron network—a massive red flag for a single retail user.
Who jammed them?
Binance’s own internal investigators.
The craziest part of the story is that despite Binance’s $4.3 billion plea deal with the US to tighten compliance, these transfers didn't trigger the automated alarms. It took human investigators looking at the data after the fact to finally connect the wallets, expose the gold smuggler, and shut the network down.
Somehow CZ is even richer than what Binance is worth
Probably because he uses his users funds against them, liquidates them, takes the money for himself without giving anything back
CZ REALLY IS THE ABSOLUTE GOAT OF ALL SCAMMERS.
SCAMMERS ALL ACROSS THE WORLD LOOKING UP TO HIM
Somehow CZ is even richer than what Binance is worth
Probably because he uses his users funds against them, liquidates them, takes the money for himself without giving anything back
CZ REALLY IS THE ABSOLUTE GOAT OF ALL SCAMMERS.
SCAMMERS ALL ACROSS THE WORLD LOOKING UP TO HIM