🚨 Breaking News - The U.S. administration under President Donald Trump is reportedly planning to give Changpeng Zhao, the Co-Founder and former CEO of the cryptocurrency exchange Binance, a presidential pardon.
In 2024, Changpeng Zhao, also known as CZ, pleaded guilty to money laundering and was sentenced to four months in prison along with a $50 million fine. He also had to resign as Binance’s CEO and step down from any executive role from the firm.
In a post on X, New York Post columnist and Fox correspondent Charles Gasparino said that people close to Zhao have been saying that Trump insiders think the case against him was “pretty weak” and didn’t need a felony charge or jail time. And since Zhao is still Binance’s biggest shareholder, these talks have made it possible for him to come back to the crypto exchange.
CZ is optimistic about crypto's future, predicting a Bitcoin "supercycle" or "super-cycle" in 2026, potentially breaking the traditional 4-year halving cycle due to growing global adoption and support.
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Binance Futures for a new listing of the TSLAUSDT (or similar notation like TSL SLAUSDT, but it's TSLAUSDT) perpetual contract under their TradFi Perpetual category.This is a USDT-margined (USDS-Margined) Equity Perpetual Contract that tracks the price of Tesla Inc. (Nasdaq: TSLA) stock, allowing leveraged trading on Tesla's share price in a perpetual futures format—settled in USDT,
Binance Futures will list TSLAUSDT Perpetual Contract on 01-28-2026, 14:30 UTC.
🇭🇰 Hong Kong now offers 0% capital gains tax on Bitcoin.
Hong Kong continues to offer effectively 0% capital gains tax on Bitcoin (and most cryptocurrencies) for individual investors in 2026. Hong Kong maintains its long-standing territorial tax system with no general capital gains tax for individuals on profits from assets held as capital investments—including crypto like Bitcoin. As long as your activity is considered long-term holding (not frequent trading that qualifies as a business), gains remain tax-free.