“I’ve perceived there’s a lot of misunderstandings about Binance, about myself,” he said. “I’m here to just talk to more people who may want to understand us more, just so that when they see me, they hear from me too, they get a sense of who I am.”
The version of CZ who made the rounds earlier this month said he prefers to help founders from the background, rather than be at the center of a headline, he said.
And while he said he isn’t involved in the immediate operations of Binance.US, he still suggested that he’s trying to boost the company’s profile in the country.
“We want to do more in the U.S., and personally, I really want to help make the U.S. the capital of crypto,” he told CoinDesk. “I want to bring more crypto services into America.”
Liquidity puzzle
CZ’s argument for letting Binance.US tap the global exchange’s liquidity is simple: the global exchange has much more liquidity than any U.S. platform can have on its own.
“U.S. consumers, as I said before, don’t have access to the best liquidity,” he told CoinDesk. “That means they pay a much higher price to buy and sell crypto. … Crypto is the only place where U.S. consumers, the largest capital markets in the world, do not have the best prices … we’re trying to figure out how to fix it.”
