CZ 🔶 BNB (@cz_binance) — Twitter Score 1000 out of 1000

CZ BNB is the public persona of Changpeng Zhao, who co-founded Binance in July 2017 alongside Yi He, building it into the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange by daily trading volume. CZ BNB's Twitter Score is 1000 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of July 2026, placing him at rank #1 (top 0.1%) out of 389,626 accounts tracked. His score exceeds 900, a threshold reached by only 37 accounts on the platform, and he holds 11,845,710 followers as of July 2026.

CZ BNB previously served as CEO of Binance, stepping down in November 2023 as part of a U.S. Department of Justice resolution in which he pled guilty to violating the U.S. Bank Secrecy Act, agreed to pay a $50 million fine, and Binance agreed to pay $4.3 billion in fines. He was sentenced in April 2024 to four months in federal prison and was released on September 27, 2024. He received a presidential pardon from U.S. President Donald Trump on October 23, 2025. The U.S. SEC filed 13 charges against Binance entities and Zhao in June 2023 alleging securities law violations; the SEC and defendants filed a joint stipulation on May 29, 2025 to dismiss that civil enforcement action with prejudice. The U.S. CFTC filed a lawsuit in March 2023 against Binance and Zhao alleging willful evasion of U.S. law and derivatives rule breaches. In November 2024, FTX filed a lawsuit against Binance Holdings, Zhao, and other Binance executives seeking to recover nearly $1.8 billion that FTX alleges was fraudulently transferred in a July 2021 stock repurchase transaction.

CZ BNB founded YZi Labs, the family office of Zhao and Yi He focused on Web3, AI, and biotech investments, rebranded from Binance Labs in January 2025 with Zhao taking a more active role in investments. He retains a majority stake in Binance while pursuing a venture-capital career focused on advising firms he invests in, and is affiliated with BNB Chain. He founded Giggle Academy and serves as a strategic adviser to the Pakistan Crypto Council, as well as an adviser to the president of Kyrgyzstan, Sadyr Japarov, on the development of digital assets. Previously, he worked at OKCoin as CTO and at Blockchain.info as head of development. His self-published memoir Freedom of Money launched on April 8, 2026, with 100% of author royalties directed to Giggle Academy. CZ BNB has published 8,913 posts and has been mentioned by 5,858 accounts, totaling 38,043 mentions.

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CZ BNB draws a broad range of crypto-native accounts as followers. The accounts that follow CZ BNB include 5,153 founders, 962 angel investors, 3,668 influencers and 459 VCs, among them Balaji, Brian Armstrong, Chris Dixon, Marc Andreessen, vitalik.eth and Erik Voorhees.