{"id":726535,"date":"2026-05-10T04:30:24","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T01:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/cz-says-crypto-exchange-rivals-opposed-his-pardon-bid\/"},"modified":"2026-05-10T04:30:24","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T01:30:24","slug":"cz-says-crypto-exchange-rivals-opposed-his-pardon-bid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/cz-says-crypto-exchange-rivals-opposed-his-pardon-bid\/","title":{"rendered":"CZ says crypto exchange rivals opposed his pardon bid"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Binance co-founder Changpeng \u201cCZ\u201d Zhao said rival crypto exchanges were concerned a pardon could pave the way for Binance to return to the US market.<\/p>\n

Binance co-founder Changpeng \u201cCZ\u201d Zhao said he was not very confident he would be pardoned by US President Donald Trump after serving a four-month prison sentence in 2024 for violating US anti-money-laundering laws.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou never know because we actually had very strong anti-lobbying from some of our perceived competitors in the US,\u201d Zhao told Ran Neuner on the Crypto Banter podcast published<\/span><\/a> to YouTube<\/a> on Saturday.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe other crypto exchanges in the US don’t want me to get a pardon,\u201d Zhao said, arguing they were concerned about Binance re-entering the US market after its exit in November 2023. The departure followed a $4.3 billion settlement<\/span><\/a> with Binance and the US government over violations of the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) and the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA), as well as failure to register as a money transmitting business.<\/p>\n

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Binance co-founder Changpeng \u201cCZ\u201d Zhao said rival crypto exchanges were concerned a pardon could pave the way for Binance to return to the US market. Binance co-founder Changpeng \u201cCZ\u201d Zhao said he was not very confident he would be pardoned by US President Donald Trump after serving a four-month prison sentence in 2024 for violating…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":726536,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/s3-images.ctmedia.io\/media\/article-covers\/cz-new-copy.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-726535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=726535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726535\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/726536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=726535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=726535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=726535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}