Binances kryptovaluta rusar efter Trumps benådning
Kryptovalutan BNB, som tidigare handlades under namnet Binance Coin, rusar 8 procent efter president Donald Trump benådat Binance-grundaren Changpeng Zhao. Det rapporterar Bloomberg.
BNB är världens tredje största kryptovaluta efter Bitcoin och Ether. Det samlade marknadsvärdet på valutan uppgår till 157 miljarder dollar.
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Changpeng Zhao
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Changpeng Zhao (Chinese: 趙長鵬; pinyin: Zhào Chángpéng; born 1977), commonly known as CZ, is a Chinese-born Canadian businessman. Zhao is the co-founder and former CEO of Binance. He resigned as the CEO in November 2023 after pleading guilty to a money laundering charge in the United States and was sentenced to four months in prison in April 2024 and completed his sentence by September of the same year.
According to Forbes, Zhao was ranked the 21st-richest person in the world, and the richest Canadian, with a net worth estimated at $88.0 billion as of October 2025.
On April 7, 2024, he was appointed by the Pakistan Ministry of Finance as a strategic advisor to the Pakistan Crypto Council. He will guide look-over and promote crypto and blockchain technology in the country
On May 3, 2025, he was appointed as an advisor to the president of Kyrgyzstan, Sadyr Japarov, on the development of digital assets.
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