Trump Pardons Binance Founder CZ, Signaling Softer U.S. Crypto Policy

TLDR: President Trump used his constitutional power to pardon CZ after his conviction involving crypto money-laundering failures. CZ’s exchange Binance paid about $4.3 billion in U.S. settlement and the founder served four months in prison. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt claimed the Biden administration’s crypto crackdown targeted the industry unfairly. CZ steps aside as [...]

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