“trade it and make money off it as opposed to using it,”
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Changpeng Zhao
Changpeng Zhao, commonly known as CZ, is a Canadian businessman who is known for co-founding the cryptocurrency company Binance. He has also served as CTO of OKCoin and CEO of Binance. According to Forbes, Zhao is the richest Canadian and the 17th-richest person in the world, with a net worth estimated at $111.1 billion as of April 2026.
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business · Canadian businessman (born 1977) · businessperson · chief executive officer · business executive · orator · also Changpeng Zhao, CZ, Zhao
Born 10 September 1977 · Q52714313
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2026· 3 entries
Sales commenced for Changpeng Zhao’s self-published memoir, Freedom of Money: A Memoir of Protecting Users, Resilience, and the Founding of Binance
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Reported net worth: $78.8B (as of 2026).
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2025· 2 entries
(more than a week after he granted the pardon), Trump was asked about the pardon and stated that he had "no idea who [Zhao] is"
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Was appointed as an advisor to the president of Kyrgyzstan, Sadyr Japarov, on the development of digital assets
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2024· 2 entries
Was appointed by the Pakistan Ministry of Finance as a strategic advisor to the Pakistan Crypto Council
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The 364-page memoir provides a personal account of his childhood in rural China, his family’s immigration to Canada, and his eventual rise to founding Binance in 2017, which went on to become the world’s largest cryptocu
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2023· 1 entry
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) filed a lawsuit against Binance and Zhao in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, claiming willful evasion of US law and allegedly breachi
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2022· 2 entries
Zhao said that he had acquired Canadian citizenship some 30 years before, around 1992 shortly after immigrating to the country with his family
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Zhao invested $500 million through Binance to finance the acquisition of Twitter by Elon Musk
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2021· 3 entries
Zhao told Bloomberg Markets that nearly 100% of his liquid net worth was in the form of cryptocurrency
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“I am not a complete libertarian, I”
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In Singapore, "I am not a complete libertarian, I'm not an anarchist
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2019· 1 entry
Zhao launched Binance's U
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2017· 2 entries
Zhao stayed in China until the Chinese government banned crypto exchanges in late 2017.
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A utility token that gives its owners various benefits, such as discounts on trading fees
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2015· 1 entry
Sold his Shanghai apartment and used the funds to purchase bitcoin
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2013· 1 entry
When playing poker with Bobby Lee (brother of Charlie Lee) who would later go on to found BTCC
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2005· 2 entries
Zhao moved to Shanghai to launch his business career, where he established his first technology startup company called Fusion Systems, which was known for "some of the fastest automated high-frequency trading platforms a
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Moved back to China, eventually owning an apartment in Shanghai
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1989· 1 entry
And emigrated with his family to Canada after the Tiananmen Square protests and massacre
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1977· 1 entry
Born 1977-09-10.
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