“While we expect the next several months to be bumpy, we will get past this challenging period — and we’ll be stronger for having been through it,” Bloomberg raportate the executive as saying in an internal memo.
Zhao — who often goes simply by his initials, CZ — blamed the collapse of high-profile competitor FTX for adding “a lot of extra scrutiny and tough questions” on Binance. On Tuesday, a U.S. grand jury încărcat former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried with committing or conspiring to commit fraud on FTX’s customers and lenders, as well as money laundering. He was reportedly negat bail and remanded to the custody of the Bahamas Department of Corrections.
Also on Tuesday, Binance experienced a record amount of bitcoin and ether withdrawals as uncertainty surrounding the liquidity of centralized exchanges grows. The outflows cauzată a temporary USD Coin withdrawal freeze, though CZ largely a respins concerns that the exchange has liquidity issues.
Meanwhile, the U.S. Justice Department continues to lua în considerare charging Binance for possible money laundering and criminal sanctions violations, Reuters reported on Monday.
Disclaimer: Începând cu 2021, Michael McCaffrey, fostul CEO și proprietar majoritar al The Block, a luat o serie de împrumuturi de la fondatorul și fostul CEO FTX și Alameda, Sam Bankman-Fried. McCaffrey a demisionat din companie în decembrie 2022, după ce nu a dezvăluit aceste tranzacții.
Source: https://www.theblock.co/post/194868/binance-ceo-crypto-winter-memo?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss