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YZi Labs, formerly Binance Labs, announces a $1B Builder Fund to support long-term founders developing on BNB Chain in areas like trading, AI, and DeFi (Logan Hitchcock/Decrypt)
https://decrypt.co/343392/cz-family-office-kickstarts-1-billion-fund-bnb
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CZ Family Office Kickstarts $1 Billion Builder Fund on BNB
Binance co-founder Changpeng Zhao's family office is setting aside $1 billion for long-term builders on BNB Chain.

SoftBank-owned PayPay takes a 40% stake in Binance Japan for an undisclosed sum, to capitalize on Japan's crypto boom; PayPay filed for a US IPO in August (Mayumi Negishi/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 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…

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

A Deterministic Limit Order Book Simulator with Hawkes-Driven Order Flow
Sohaib El Karmi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08085 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.08085

A Deterministic Limit Order Book Simulator with Hawkes-Driven Order Flow
We present a reproducible research framework for market microstructure combining a deterministic C++ limit order book (LOB) simulator with stochastic order flow generated by multivariate marked Hawkes processes. The paper derives full stability and ergodicity proofs for both linear and nonlinear Hawkes models, implements time-rescaling and goodness-of-fit diagnostics, and calibrates exponential and power-law kernels on Binance BTCUSDT and LOBSTER AAPL datasets. Empirical results highlight the n…

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.

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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

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.