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The Co-Founder and Previous CEO of Binance  Changpeng Zhao resigned amid legal issues on November 21, 2023, he had been serving as the CEO since Pojrect was Launched, After his departure Binance Appointed Richard Teng as the Company's New CEO.

So what do you think about him and how he manages things?

I have noticed one big difference so far, Binance now listing new tokens quicker than before.  The last 3 tokens were listed within 2 weeks one after another after few days of launchpool farming.

Before that, they used to be very picky.

What do you guys think about that?

Let's be honest, can he support the crypto community like CZ ?

In every CYCLE everytime there has some (FUD) on Crypto especially on Binance, CZ are quite active to defend or give update about the case while everything is under control (SAFU, etc).

I love how he really care about the ecosystem and not just only his service exchange platform.

Yes, I still remember the IEO period by Binance. and not all projects can easily list their tokens on the Binance exchange. and each token will usually create tremendous hype in the market.
However, with a new CEO, of course, there will be new efforts for them to develop the platform. however, Binance is already very big and growing tremendously as the largest crypto exchange today.
However, with the listing of new coins, of course, this becomes an attraction for investors and traders. Let's try to see first how the Binance market develops with several coins that will be listed.

The pump/dump from TRB was like a special greeting that Richard Teng sent to the entire community. Before that, I suspected he was just a stand-in, but honestly, the fact that Binance has such a big impact on the market is very difficult to predict destruction like FTX.

Recently, the fact that they have continuously launched launchpools is probably understandable as the market is bustling with a lot of news that investors are paying attention to. The discussion between the launch pool and launch pad is the story. Behind the scenes, I have no problem with them implementing cooperation with many new projects because it is consistent with the market state.

OP Edit; it's Richard Teng the new CEO of binance.

On the other hand, I haven't really noticed any change in binance even with your point, even while CZ is away he promised and I'm convinced he wouldn't let his investment or biggest project fail because of a circumstances. so I'm pretty sure that his eyes are on whatever is going on binance right now.

I have been using binance for quite a long time for now and it has provided me a flawless exchange environment with one of the lowest trade fees and withdrawal fees. The US SEC fiasco made no difference on how I've been using the exchange. I had followed CZ on twitter and now his X's have decreased in X. Other than that CZ made no different in my real or virtual life. There's been a general tendency of me focusing more on DEX than any Centralized exchange these days but that has nothing to do with binance. Preference on BSC network than even cheaper Polygon could be a bias but I'm not sure.

I am guessing they are trying to maintain good image for now and is really catering to their customers

However despite the legal cases and their old CEO stepping down, binance seems to relatively maintain what they have right now and seems like their costumers or users did not really leave by their side

How binance operated before would still be most likely the same

You are right bro. I also really admired him for that habit. It felt like he never left Binance community alone.

Do you think that is an attraction for new investors? i feel like that might also reduce their crediblity among investors. listing too many tokens in very short period of time could make people think that they are only after money and don't care about quality of tokens anymore.

Damn. I am sorry man. and thanks for pointing that out. Post is edited now.

There has not been any huge difference except back to back listing of coins, CZ was more proactive and it would be too early to conclude on Richard Tang but right now there would be more pressure of centralized exchanges as we have seen regulators tightening their noose around CEX, Apple app store removing Binance from Indian market and how Richard Teng deals with this would define his credibility.

Seems like it is a lot more calm, it doesn't feel like it is on the headlines everyday, which is what I assume they wanted to do with CZ gone, he was a prolific figure which made him talked about a lot, and they wanted someone who would stay silent and just work and that is what they are doing.

This doesn't mean it is a good or bad thing, it doesn't really mean anything really, it is just what it is and we can't really change anything regarding this at all. I believe that we are going to end up with something quite normal and shouldn't really assume anything will be bigger than that. I get that life is not that easy, but it is also not that hard neither, so we should definitely consider this to be normal and not anything crazy at all.

All those listed coins through launchpad have been dumped after initial pump. Earlier they took time and choose the right projects. Now, they are listing new ones faster but only a few would last long. In India Binance app is no more available to download from the Apple store and may be the same thing would happen on Google Play Store. The new CEO has to now deal with the regulations of the Indian government. That is one major change that I think has happened after he took over as the CEO.

for me Cz is still the best CEO at least for now and Im user of binance and don't really hit or know anything when binance under new CEO and binance still binance and I don't think it effect much.

But CZ stand with crypto community sometimes outside the binance itself. I hope there will be a figure like Cz in future

That could look impressive but from what I have seen so far, I think Binance is not the exchange we used to know before. It has suddenly lose it value gradually and most project team are not even interested in following the stress and principles Binance as an exchange has established before.

Due to many forces on Binance and the team with the corruption case of money laundery, the value had reduced immersely and they have no option than to succome to the pressure. BNB and busd which is one of the assets of Binance are delisted in many exchanges bring there values down.

I don't think apple's removing Binance and other exchanges in its app store is as big news as it sounds. apple doesn't have as large a user base in India as the US, Japan etc. According to a reasearch apple has only 5% market share in India.

Bruh CZ is not dead lol  ;D ;D ;D
He announced in Twitter that he's taking a break from Twitter for a while. Pretty sure he'll come back sooner or later, he said that before he'll be more focused on investing in new Defi and Crypto projects, He's gonna become a Gem hunter now.

Changpeng Zhao considers Binance as a sole proprietorship, so he will have an impact on the decisions of the Company's New CEO, but Richard Teng will try to leave a mark by trying to take some measures and corrections, but the general approach of Binance will not change, so I do not think that much will happen except more cooperation with the authorities, reducing the fees that They ignore tokens and strict enforcement of regulations or monitoring the activity of individual accounts.

CZ still is the one deciding in the background which means Teng is just there to represent as CEO but he may have limits on where he can act. CZ still owns Binance. maybe Teng decide on those new tokens to be listed but once they find out the volume is low they also remove those tokens.

i'm not following the new CEO on his Twitter but seems unnecessary. CZ is also silent these days probably trying not to get attention from regulators. don't want to be on the hot seat again.

If it's about the benefit of the entire crypto community, I like CZ more because he's very vocal to what he's saying that we're going to like. But of course there are things that we can't agree on him.

Compare to the new CEO whom is Teng. I don't think that we can compare him to CZ as he's done more than him and he's just starting out and there are more work and progress to do.

There's more exposure to CZ than him and that's why it's just hard to compare.

Dear God bless u, indeed CZ has resigned from his CEO post But he still has an eye on what is going on Because some days ago i was reading a post in which CZ was requesting the US government to allow him to leave the US before his next presence in Court. I don't know what was his mind before that thought of leaving the US maybe he was scared of some of his negative activity as he had already paid a big amount of fine.

On the other hand, I also read a post on the Binance handle in which they were saying your funds are safe... I tried to find the link again of that post but I could not find the post so I can share here that post.

What do you guys say should we transfer our Binance fund to another exchange or not? Some of my Friends have transferred their funds to their wallets or other exchanges which I also say was got step of them.

I believe that Changpeng Zhao (CZ) made a significant contribution to the development of cryptocurrency overall. Serving as the CEO of the top exchange, he consistently advanced not only the exchange itself but also the Binance Smart Chain (BSC) blockchain. Now, the new CEO will face challenges because they won't be able to surpass CZ in terms of ideas and contributions. Therefore, I think Binance will gradually lose its positions or may no longer be considered the top exchange.

It's still quite early to judge or conclude the performance and impact of the new CEO Richard Teng, I think that Binance is still running the way CZ left it, except for a few changes like the listing of some new tokens. CZ worked so hard to build Binance to be the number one crypto exchange, and I think that Mr. Teng, must be the right man for the job, if not he wouldn't have been appointed. Although it's still quite early to know whether he can fit very well in his new position, whether Binance will still retain it's number one position will soon unfold under his new leadership.

With the kind skills the new binance CEO have showcased in some few months he has spend in the office, show that he will do better than the formal CEO of binance that was guilty on some fraud activities that made him to resigned so that the company will not collapse.

You can see some new development in Binance since this CEO took over from the formal CEO and, if you enter some sectors in binance, you will begin to see some information that will cooling your mind to remain with binance because they have what it takes to protect their customers fund not to disappear like the way other people coins use to disappear in some exchange.

I haven't experienced much changes though, but I think the new CEO is doing just fine. I expected worse but to my greatest surprise he is still keeping the company in a good shape. One of things that might have triggered the fear of expecting bad performance from binance is after they removed some swap trading pairs, because the regulator and SEC was at their neck. But today I still use binance and am satisfied with their performance, I hope nothing changes.

I haven’t noticed too much difference on the exchange, business side of things. Maybe the social media accounts are a little less edgy, a bit boring since Teng became the main man. I’m not too sure if that’s a good or bad thing for business. CZ is probably still covertly pulling the strings on the main business decisions, unbeknown to authorities. Binance is his baby after all.

Perhaps I am not the only one here who did not find any difference or new things under the new CEO of Binance. It is worth noting that despite Richard Teng's excellent experience in the crypto field and his qualification to lead a platform the size of Binance, CZ, since he is the founder of Binance and has spent many years managing Binance since the beginning of its establishment, he has the most excellent knowledge. New things were already in place before his resignation.

The new CEO has not completed a year since he managed Binance, so he is still at the beginning of his journey. Indeed, we found many projects launched in Binance's LaunchPad and numerous promotional events for the platform. Most importantly, Binance is working well and organized, and this is all Binance customers want and what CZ wants to ensure its continued success and market dominance. Even if people do not currently see new things under Teng's leadership, perhaps they will in the future; it's just a matter of time.

yes, more adopting new token tokens, the commercial path is so quickly seen after the change by Richard Teng, but somehow not so visible, especially social media, maybe I'm just used to seeing CZ on Twitter, with news news, especially the community, CZ besides having a company also has a personality like an investor, indeed CZ makes binance like rarely adopting new tokens, it can be a few weeks or even months. binance services so far I use very often because it is faster and easier for me. whoever the leadership aims to advance binance, as long as it is safe, fast and still a favorite that is my highlight is very helpful, that's just my assessment and maybe different personalities, especially the personal branding that richard has.

I heard some rumors and I've mentioned it here on the forum. People are speculating that Binance are giving these tokens fast track access from launchpad to listing to ensure that they can recoup some of their "Binance Labs" investments to use for more important things like CZ vs United States of America case.  Seeing that they lost $4.8B to that fine they paid to the DOJ, they need fresh money from somewhere else otherwise they might start compromising their proof of reserves.

I'm glad they are doing the previous, not the latter.

Seems like a good fit. Altthougt i liked the fact that CZ was more like a coder than leader, because i felt like it had a future and a vision, like for building their own chain and dex at the start. I feel like with current leadership any kind of technogical development will not be a priority for a long time. And i really hope that CZ managed to hire right people with talents and vision, and those won't get kicked out because marketing needs more room or other bs.

But their current goals seem reasonable, although i am certain that they will be even more compliant even more if possible. That will alert some of the libertarians in here if they weren't alerted before.
On a plus side, they might get binance card back to europe.

I have noticed it now and I can’t tell if it is a change that came from the new CEO or it is just a coincidence that more projects are being launched during his reign. However, no matter what, I would choose Changpeng Zhao over and over again. I like his personality and how he talks, acts, and even engages with people. If id be honest, this new CEO doesn’t seem so interesting to me. But it’s not about being interesting, as long as he delivers rightfully for the good of the company.

The new CEO is working very to make sure that the project is one of the best ever in the cryptocurrency ecosystem Exchanges. And another I also noticed from the new CEO is that, it has embedded new extra security for the p2p which not there when the former CEO was there. Now you have to run three different securities before releasing the coins to the buy or the seller. I appreciate the new guy for his good work.

   In my personal and honest opinion, I also prefer the management done by CZ. In the several years of Binance's existence and the number of times a hacker has entered their platform, I have never once seen them abandon their client holders in exchange for themselves.

   Is it the feeling that even if bugs or hackers get into Binance, you as its user will not be worried about the fund you have here in BnB? Honestly speaking, because cz will not let your fund be moved, it doesn't matter if you subscribe to Binance. That's the beauty of cz's administration. Unlike now, I feel a little less comfortable using it.

Yes really Dear, You are right CZ was a good CEO and was quite active in defending the ecosystem of the Binance.  well, what can we do now as the system is out of our hands. I remember one of our community member was suggesting someone to invest in BNB which I think is no longer a good option to hold BNB because we don't know what are the ideas of the new Binance CEO.

We all know that Binance was too picky while listing new projects and now these days they are listing one after one new coin haha.. well what do you think dear holding funds on Binance is safe or not? As far as I remember, a couple of days ago I read one post on their Twitter handle in which they were saying your funds are in safe hands. after the resignation of CZ, many people extracted their funds from the Binance exchange and transferred to other exchanges & personal wallets.

Well, it's certainly not a great look when the face of the company gets kicked out under suspicious circumstances but Binance wasn't a one-man show any longer because they have been running fluently for years and the rest of the team remains the same.

Honestly, if you ask me, I think CZ is paying the price for exposing Sam Bankman and FTX. For those who don't know Sam was along the biggest donators for the Biden government and you would see all the media coverage supporting Sam because of that reason only. Once they found a way to target CZ, they did just that.

But as far as trust goes, I feel that Binance is pretty safe. Although never keep our funds in CEX.

The US government is not just against Binance, but after every centralized exchange and yeah Sam may be a probable cause for this but it ain't one man's decision either the government is trying to scare the exchanges so they can take complete control of them and thigs are going in their way so far.

The change in the leadership may change the way how US treats the crypto platforms. I don't think so.

It was the leader who led the whole team to success and zao was really that leader for binance. From a new exchange that launched in 2017 with its BNB token to its whole ecosystem with project in the BNB chain, it was a fulfilling journey for zao. That was a golden time for binance but now that Zao is out of binance we don't know if it will have similar leadership or not. What i think is binance will be replaced by FTX after its relaunch, and because FTX exchange itself wasn't that bad but the management was greedy.

I can't figure it out, CZ was on top level of management because he does everything for his beloved company but also to the community. That's what we're going to miss about him.

That is the typical CZ that we know, always gets the interest and the attention of everyone through social media and I guess that is always fine on him. He likes to get them at any time that there are some issues that needs his hot take but with Teng, maybe he'll be the same soon.

Yes, I admit that too. but I'm confused whether this will have a positive or negative impact because too many registered tokens can cause Binance's credibility to decrease. But regarding this kind of change in top officials for me it is normal and is likely to happen in many companies, the most important thing is that the new person who holds the position is able to provide better policies than the previous person.

as long as it is thoroughly reviewed by the binance team themselves i think its gonna be fine, in fact as I've seen lately those new coin listed are generally being invested first hand by the binance labs, meanwhile there are indeed some altcoin that are listed out of the blue but most of them are the coins that have hypes and also deemed to be good enough by binance also its because they want to pump that trading volume number up.
so its kinda understandable speaking from business perspective after all credibility is gonna be fine if the coin they listed are not some random meme coin.
under this new CEO nothing much has changed, its as if he just following the roadmap that binance already has since CZ is still ceo because im sure as heck that they definitely have roadmap for their future planning.

I think it's still too early to judge just based on the token listing rules they have? The new CEO is fundamentally different from CZ, which was really active among the crypto scene. You can't help but see his name and his opinions every now and then after all. As for the rules and stuff that they have on their exchange, I don't think I've experienced any big changes so far and I hardly doubt we'd see any in the foreseeable future as well. In the first place, CZ stepped down due to a violation AML, not issues with the internal rules of the exchange itself.

You are right. I also think removing those tokens from swap was enforced by regulators, (don't know if that was SEC or another one) or maybe because they were not performing well. but I don't thnk removing them had affected Binance exchange a lot.

I don't follow Binance in social media so don't know if there is any changes, but don't they have social media managers for that? I mean I don't think CZ was posting under official accounts, neither do new CEO. so they shouldn't change. unless new CEO fired the old guy and hired a new CM.

I share the same sentiment but it is hard to neglect what has transpired over the last few months.

Let me start by asking you a simple question. Did you know any employees or director's names other than CZ before the fiasco? I would bet not. That's because Binance always developed under the shadow of CZ and it's hard to believe the company running without him.

This is almost similar to what happened with Bitboy crypto, who was terminated from his own company. We don't know who is at fault but there is a trust gap after such incidents.

I think that the change in management will not in any way affect the previous model of behavior of this online platform, because their development strategy is probably planned for many years to come. Despite leaving the post of director, Changpeng Zhao continues to remain the owner of Binance (controlling stake) and will be able to dictate his own conditions under which this exchange will continue to operate. The new CEO may simply be the face of the company and not the actual manager.

Regarding the listing of new tokens. Too little time has passed to make such statements. More accurate conclusions will be known at the end of the year. A comparison between 2023 and 2024 will demonstrate the true token listing numbers.

I'm more interested in the future of BNB. What are the forecasts for this?

Your observation is correct, the frequency of launching/listing new project has risen under the leadership of Richard Teng compared to CZ tenure. This also reflects that CZ exercised greater caution and vgrous scrutiny of projects prior to their listing, which I believe was the right approach to prevent investors losses Nevertheless, the new CEO may require additional time and experience to establish his reputation comparable to what we have long observed under the leadership of CZ.

After his resignation from the public and choosing silence from binance's prestige I don't hear the continuation anymore, is cz still with us and more enjoying life behind the scenes of binance with a new marketing strategy, or still continuing his legal procession ??? for me the news of his resignation may be appropriate but it is too fast to clean up his reputation trail, until people still remember the binance entrepreneur in terms of mingling. Even the big move may be forgotten because people only focus on the news that affected bnb, coin stable binance.

The anticipation of this change of ownership I see like nothing happened, even binance is still crowded with new leadership even with taking the step of adopting such coins and people enjoy trading with no fear of whatever happens to binance. What a loyalty of the users.