# cz.wiki

> cz.wiki is an unofficial, English-primary, source-backed encyclopedia and near-real-time tracker about Changpeng Zhao (CZ), co-founder and former CEO of Binance. Every factual statement carries a numbered reference with the original link; The article text itself is written by an AI (Grok Bot) from the cited sources and every page says so, with date and provisional status. 19 languages (18 are AI translations of the English text). Unofficial third-party site, not affiliated with Changpeng Zhao or Binance.

cz.wiki is English-primary. Prefer the English URLs below; other languages live at https://cz.wiki/<code>/… (es, pt, fr, de, it, nl, ru, pl, tr, hi, id, ja, ko, zh-hans, zh-hant, vi, th, ar) and are AI translations whose English source prevails. Every page declares canonical and hreflang alternates, JSON-LD (WebSite, Organization, Person, Article, BreadcrumbList) and a visible last-updated date.

## Policies

- Status: Unofficial third-party site, not affiliated with Changpeng Zhao or Binance. It does not impersonate or speak for him.
- Sourcing: every factual statement carries a numbered reference with original link, publisher and date; primary sources (court/government documents, original posts) first; unsourced statements are marked [citation needed]; unverified ones [verification needed]. Allegations are kept apart from findings.
- AI labelling: the English article text is itself AI-written by Grok Bot (the AI agent that maintains cz.wiki) from the cited sources. Every page that holds AI-written text carries a label that states which AI, what it was based on, when, and that it is provisional and not human-reviewed. Non-English pages are AI translations (Codex CLI) of the English text and carry a further notice; English prevails.
- Live feed: collected automatically every few minutes; everything in it is UNVERIFIED until a human reviews it, and must never be presented as fact.
- Not investment advice. Times are UTC+8 (Singapore).
- Editorial policy: https://cz.wiki/editorial

## Key articles

- [Binance](https://cz.wiki/wiki/binance): Binance is a cryptocurrency exchange founded in 2017 by Changpeng Zhao; in 2023 it pleaded guilty to U.S. anti-money-laundering failures.
- [Binance’s 2023 U.S. resolution](https://cz.wiki/wiki/binance-2023-resolution): On 21 November 2023 Binance pleaded guilty to U.S. charges and agreed to pay about US$4.3 billion; Changpeng Zhao stepped down as CEO and Richard Teng succeeded him.
- [BNB Chain](https://cz.wiki/wiki/bnb-chain): BNB Chain is the blockchain ecosystem associated with Binance's BNB token.
- [BNB Standard](https://cz.wiki/wiki/bnb-standard): BNB Standard (formerly CEA Industries, ticker BNC) is a Nasdaq-listed company that holds BNB and rang the Nasdaq opening bell in October 2026.
- [Changpeng Zhao](https://cz.wiki/wiki/changpeng-zhao): Changpeng Zhao (CZ) is a Chinese-born Canadian entrepreneur, co-founder and former CEO of Binance, who pleaded guilty to a U.S. Bank Secrecy Act charge in 2023 and was pardoned in 2025.
- [Freedom of Money](https://cz.wiki/wiki/freedom-of-money): Freedom of Money is a memoir by Changpeng Zhao published in April 2026.
- [From Binance Labs to YZi Labs](https://cz.wiki/wiki/yzi-labs-rebrand): On 23 January 2025 Binance Labs was renamed YZi Labs, widening its focus to artificial intelligence and biotechnology.
- [Giggle Academy](https://cz.wiki/wiki/giggle-academy): Giggle Academy is a non-profit, free, game-based online English-learning platform for children, launched by Changpeng Zhao.
- [He Yi](https://cz.wiki/wiki/he-yi): He Yi (Yi He) is a co-founder of Binance and, according to Wikipedia, was named co-CEO in December 2025.
- [Legal affairs of Changpeng Zhao](https://cz.wiki/wiki/legal-affairs): An overview of criminal, regulatory and civil matters involving Changpeng Zhao and Binance, with the status of each.
- [Pardon of Changpeng Zhao](https://cz.wiki/wiki/pardon-of-changpeng-zhao): In October 2025 President Donald Trump granted Changpeng Zhao a full and unconditional pardon in United States v. Zhao.
- [Public reception of Changpeng Zhao](https://cz.wiki/wiki/public-reception): Praise and criticism of Changpeng Zhao, set side by side with each view attributed.
- [Richard Teng](https://cz.wiki/wiki/richard-teng): Richard Teng became chief executive of Binance on 21 November 2023, succeeding Changpeng Zhao.
- [SEC v. Binance](https://cz.wiki/wiki/sec-v-binance): SEC v. Binance Holdings was a civil enforcement action filed in June 2023 against Binance and Changpeng Zhao that the SEC dropped in May 2025.
- [United States v. Zhao](https://cz.wiki/wiki/united-states-v-zhao): United States v. Zhao (23CR00179RAJ-001) is the U.S. federal criminal case in which Changpeng Zhao pleaded guilty to a Bank Secrecy Act violation, was sentenced to four months, and was later pardoned.
- [YZi Labs](https://cz.wiki/wiki/yzi-labs): YZi Labs is the investment firm formerly known as Binance Labs, renamed in January 2025.

## Featured / In depth

- [Featured stories](https://cz.wiki/featured): investigative findings and in-depth stories, each with sources and a verification status; JSON at https://cz.wiki/api/featured.json, feeds at https://cz.wiki/feed/featured.xml and https://cz.wiki/feed/featured.json
- [CZ rings the Nasdaq opening bell for BNB Standard, pitching BNB to Wall Street](https://cz.wiki/featured/cz-nasdaq-bell-bnb-standard): Changpeng Zhao joined BNB Standard (Nasdaq: BNC), a public company that holds BNB, at the Nasdaq opening bell on 26 October 2026, then told the panel that followed that crypto and mainstream finance are "finally merging". (verification: Partially verified; 3 linked sources)

## Core pages

- [Home](https://cz.wiki/): overview, legal status at a glance, latest changes
- [All articles](https://cz.wiki/articles): every article by category
- [Timeline](https://cz.wiki/timeline): dated, sourced timeline
- [Quotes](https://cz.wiki/quotes): quotations with original wording and source
- [Source index](https://cz.wiki/sources): every source used, with publisher and date
- [Live feed (unverified)](https://cz.wiki/live): automatically collected items; unverified
- [For AI & developers](https://cz.wiki/ai): endpoints, schemas, citation and etiquette

## Machine-readable data

- [/llms.txt](https://cz.wiki/llms.txt): Short index for LLMs (llmstxt.org format): what the site is, policies, key articles. (text/plain)
- [/llms-full.txt](https://cz.wiki/llms-full.txt): Full English article text with numbered references, in one file. (text/plain)
- [/SKILL.md](https://cz.wiki/SKILL.md): Agent Skill (YAML frontmatter + instructions) describing how to use this site. (text/markdown)
- [/.well-known/agent-skills/index.json](https://cz.wiki/.well-known/agent-skills/index.json): Agent Skills discovery index (digest of SKILL.md). (application/json)
- [/openapi.json](https://cz.wiki/openapi.json): OpenAPI 3.1 description of the endpoints below. (application/json)
- [/api/live.json](https://cz.wiki/api/live.json): Near-real-time collected items with source links; params since, until, limit, type, status, label, language (source language), lang (display language: adds title_i18n/summary_i18n machine translations). (application/json)
- [/feed/live.xml](https://cz.wiki/feed/live.xml): Atom feed of the live items. (application/atom+xml)
- [/feed/live.json](https://cz.wiki/feed/live.json): JSON Feed 1.1 of the live items. (application/feed+json)
- [/featured](https://cz.wiki/featured): Featured / In depth: investigative findings and in-depth stories; each story has a permalink at /featured/{slug}. (text/html)
- [/api/ai-usage.json](https://cz.wiki/api/ai-usage.json): Daily Workers AI usage of the automatic translation (calls, tokens, neurons vs the free 10,000/day allocation); no personal data. (application/json)
- [/api/featured.json](https://cz.wiki/api/featured.json): Featured stories as JSON: sources, verification_status, AI label; params active, status, since, limit, slug. (application/json)
- [/api/featured/{slug}.json](https://cz.wiki/api/featured/{slug}.json): One featured story as JSON. (application/json)
- [/feed/featured.xml](https://cz.wiki/feed/featured.xml): Atom feed of featured stories. (application/atom+xml)
- [/feed/featured.json](https://cz.wiki/feed/featured.json): JSON Feed 1.1 of featured stories. (application/feed+json)
- [/api/articles.json](https://cz.wiki/api/articles.json): Index of all articles with dates, summaries and links to the Markdown/JSON versions. (application/json)
- [/api/articles/{slug}.json](https://cz.wiki/api/articles/{slug}.json): One article as JSON: sections, infobox, numbered references, revision history. (application/json)
- [/wiki/{slug}.md](https://cz.wiki/wiki/{slug}.md): One article as clean Markdown with [n] citation markers and a reference list (pages: /{slug}.md). (text/markdown)
- [/feed/changes.xml](https://cz.wiki/feed/changes.xml): Atom feed of article changes (from the public revision history). (application/atom+xml)
- [/feed/changes.json](https://cz.wiki/feed/changes.json): JSON Feed 1.1 of article changes. (application/feed+json)
- [/feed.xml](https://cz.wiki/feed.xml): Atom feed of human-reviewed items. (application/atom+xml)
- [/sitemap.xml](https://cz.wiki/sitemap.xml): Sitemap with lastmod and hreflang alternates for all 19 locales. (application/xml)
- [/robots.txt](https://cz.wiki/robots.txt): Crawler rules; all search and AI crawlers are allowed. (text/plain)

## How to cite

- Cite original sources for facts; cite cz.wiki as: cz.wiki, "<title>", <canonical English URL>, last updated <date>, retrieved <date>.
- Live-feed items: cite the item's own url and publisher, and state that it is unverified.
- Keep attribution and the unofficial / AI-labelled status when republishing.

## Contact

- General: hello@cz.wiki
- Corrections: corrections@cz.wiki
- Legal: legal@cz.wiki
- Press: press@cz.wiki
- X: https://x.com/czdotwiki

## Optional

- [Agent Skill](https://cz.wiki/SKILL.md)
- [Sitemap](https://cz.wiki/sitemap.xml)
- [Full text for LLMs](https://cz.wiki/llms-full.txt)