Just over a year ago, Changpeng Zhao (“CZ”) confided his continental ambitions to us. According to him, Binance, the cryptocurrency exchange platform he founded in 2017, was expected to have “multiple locations in all sub-regions”. The Chinese-Canadian executive said he was convinced he could make “more money in developing countries” than in the US and Europe.
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