BlockBeats News, October 27, “President Trump did indeed pardon me.” Changpeng Zhao (CZ), the founder of Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, confirmed this on October 25 to Caixin.
The Wall Street Journal reported on October 23, citing sources familiar with the matter, that Trump had signed a pardon for CZ, the founder of the cryptocurrency exchange Binance, on October 22, 2025, Eastern Time, and expressed “sympathy for his ordeal.”
White House spokesperson Levitt, in response to inquiries, said, “President Trump exercised his constitutional power to pardon Mr. CZ,” emphasizing that CZ was indicted when the former president, Biden, “declared war on cryptocurrency.”
