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Salim A. Essaid

Nov 16, 2022

Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao sits on the main stage at Abu Dhabi Finance Week (ADFW) in an interview with Mike Novogratz, the CEO of Galaxy Digital Holdings. — Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao sits on the main stage at Abu Dhabi Finance Week in an interview with Mike Novogratz, the CEO of Galaxy Digital Holdings. — Salim A. Essaid/Al-Monitor

ABU DHABI — Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao stood in support of crypto, reassuring a packed hall on Wednesday at Abu Dhabi Finance Week (ADFW) that crypto is the future.

Yet not everyone attending the second day of the Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM) event was buying it. A speaker at the event tweeted about his distrust of Zhao shortly after.

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