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CoinDesk Data: Binance's market share of spot crypto trading fell to 25% in December, its lowest since 2021, and it is also losing ground in derivatives trading (Sidhartha Shukla/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20<…

Faced with blowback over his pardon of Binance founder Changpeng Zhao,
Donald Trump has offered a curious defense:
he doesn’t even know the guy.
Why Trump thinks this would somehow assuage fears that the pardon is improper is anyone’s guess.
https://www.citationneeded.news/trump-bi…

Trump says he has “no idea” who he just pardoned
President Trump reacts to condemnations of his recent pardon of Binance founder Changpeng Zhao by claiming he doesn’t know who he is.

"Bidens Krieg gegen Krypto ist vorbei": Donald Trump begnadigt Binance-Gründer
Wegen Geldwäschevorwürfen war der Binance-Gründer Changpeng Zhao vier Monate in Haft. Nun hat ihn der US-Präsident begnadigt – und seinen Vorgänger attackiert.

Binance names co-founder Yi He as co-CEO alongside Richard Teng, making her one of the few women leading a crypto company; she also has children with ex-CEO CZ (Jeff John Roberts/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2025/12/03/binance-names-cofounder-yi-he-as-new-co-ceo/<…

Binance names cofounder Yi He as new co-CEO
Yi He has worked in crypto since the early days of the industry, and becomes one of only a handful of women to lead a crypto firm.

Dems want FCC probe of "60 Minutes" trimming Trump Binance pardon exchange
https://www.axios.com/2025/11/03/trump-60-minutes-editing-criticism-binance

Just another corrupt Trump crony getting a pardon.
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/23/trump-pardons-binance-founder-changpeng-zhao/

Binance receives three licenses from Abu Dhabi's financial regulator, allowing comprehensive operations across its exchange, clearing, and brokerage arms (Alex Dooler/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-0…

Trump Pardons Convicted Binance Founder (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/finance/currencies/trump-pardons-convicted-binance-founder-7509bd63
http://www.memeorandum.com/251023/p62#a251023p62

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Trump claims he doesn’t know who Binance founder is - despite pardoning him days ago: ‘I’d rather not have you ask the question’ | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-binance-pardon-60-minutes-interview-b2857141.html

I saw snippets of this “interview,” how much more does it need to remove Trump from the office as he is clearly unfit? It's much more than “I don’t care.” He won’t face any consequences as he will most probably be declared not responsible for his actions due to his mental-medical status. I just hope someone took the red button away from him and they only let him play with golden Lego bricks all day long

When asked about Changpeng Zhao's pardon on 60 Minutes, President Trump says "I don't know who he is" and "I heard it was a Biden witch hunt" (Vince Dioquino/Decrypt)
https://decrypt.co/347140/trump-downplays-knowledge-binan…

Trump Downplays Knowledge of Binance Chief After Pardon Linked to Family's Crypto Dealings
In a rare interview, Trump said he was told Changpeng Zhao was the victim of the Biden administration's “witch hunt” against crypto.

Donald Trump issued a pardon for the founder of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange on Thursday.
Changpeng Zhao pleaded guilty in late 2023 to one count of failing to maintain an anti-money laundering program and stepped down as CEO of Binance,
which paid $4.3bn to settle related allegations.
He was sentenced to four months in prison.
Zhao, who is often referred to by his initials CZ, is one of the world’s richest people and biggest names in cryptocurrency.

Freitag: US-Richter mit KI zum Urteil, Milliardenforderung mangels Datenschutz
KI-Nutzung in US-Gerichten Googles umstrittener Datenschutz Urteil gegen Apples App-Abzocke Binance-Gründer begnadigt GM ohne CarPlay und Android Auto

Binance helped Trump crypto company make billions. Then the president pardoned its jailed leader - but that’s not all: report | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-binance-pardon-cryptocurrency-b2855337.html

Kyrgyzstan launches a national stablecoin and a CBDC in partnership with Binance; CZ says a national cryptocurrency reserve includes Binance's BNB token (Aigerim Turgunbaeva/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific

Binance founder Changpeng Zhao accused of facilitating payments to Hamas (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/0aea27d8-89a8-4f33-8bfa-2441a16f2b4d
http://www.memeorandum.com/251124/p129#a251124p129

Sources: Binance has been exploring ways to reboot its Binance.US affiliate, including a recapitalization to cut CZ's stake, which is a hurdle to expansion (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-17/binan…

Families of October 7 victims sue Binance and Changpeng Zhao in US federal court, alleging Binance facilitated millions in payments to Hamas after October 7 (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/0aea27d8-89a8-4f33-8bfa-2441a16f2b4d

How Changpeng Zhao's pardon frees him to refocus on reclaiming ground in the US market, where Binance.US only has a 0.75% share of bitcoin trading volume (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-24/bina…

Investigation: internal Binance files show it failed to stop hundreds of millions in crypto from flowing through suspicious accounts, even after a 2023 US deal (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/5d8af345-d593-47b1-85ae-758ee60e9a89

Binance allowed suspicious accounts to operate even after 2023 US plea agreement
Leaked files show continued activity despite links to terror networks, failed ID checks and other red flags

President Trump pardons convicted Binance founder Changpeng Zhao, following months of efforts by Zhao to boost the Trump family's World Liberty Financial (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/finance/currencies/tru

Trump's pardon of CZ is a gift to the crypto industry, which has spent heavily to ease regulations and rewrite history to remove associations with criminality (Max Chafkin/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters

Trump Pardon of Binance’s Changpeng Zhao Is Rewriting Crypto History
The move by Trump comes as his family works to profit from coins.

Sources: French regulator ACPR is carrying out anti-money laundering checks on Binance and others, as it seeks to determine eligibility for EU MiCA licenses (Claudia Cohen/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Investigation: $28B in crypto tied to illicit activity flowed into crypto exchanges like Binance over the last two years, as President Trump embraces crypto (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/technology/crypto-exchanges-dirty-money.html

The Crypto Industry’s $28 Billion in ‘Dirty Money’
As President Trump has championed crypto and the industry has gone mainstream, funds from scammers and other criminal groups have flowed onto major crypto exchanges.

Better Payment Network, a BNB Chain-based cross-border stablecoin payments network, raised a $50M seed led by YZi Labs, formerly known as Binance Labs (Timmy Shen/The Block)
https://www.theblock.co/post/374874/yzi-labs-leads-50-million-round-better-…