CZ is very busy: 170 days after being released from prison, I am going to return to the throne of crypto

Author: Bright, Foresight News

After returning from California, CZ is busy.

It has been 170 days since his comeback. In nearly half a year, CZ has posted a total of 363 tweets, and although he no longer serves as Binance CEO since November 2023, his enthusiasm for posting, attending events and even trying new things is higher than when he was at the helm of Binance.

Recently, Binance announced a $2 billion investment in Abu Dhabi investment institution MGX. The subsequent "a piece of cloth on the head" Meme MUBARAK has risen to a market value of US$157 million with the frequent interactions of CZ. A tweet and a BNB turn BNB Chain meme's flower life appeared on CZ, who was full of BUIDL, which was even more controversial.

This makes people imagine - is CZ reconstructing the industry influence network with a more free attitude after removing the nominal burden of "the head of the world's largest exchange"?

The former Chinese richest man immediately restored his usual "technical preacher" character after being released from prison, making it clear that he will spend more time and money on charity (and education) in the future, and continues to pay attention to blockchain/decentralized technology, AI and biotechnology. However, in the market environment where VC narratives are generally sluggish, CZ did not fight the BUIDL argument, but became a qualified "BNB community president" through Meme's popularity and netizens' jokes.

Return to the currency circle: From DeSci Charger to Meme Master

The first big move of CZ's return was to shout a wave of DeSci in terms of the long-silent technology/track. The layout of DeSci and Biotech, which are VC-oriented investment-oriented, is more like a portrayal of the realistic paradigm.

CZ attended the DeSci meeting in Bangkok with Vitalik in November 2019, instantly sought after the niche DeSci (Decentralized Science) track for hot money and spotlight. Immediately, Binance Labs (now renamed Yzi Labs) at that time officially announced its investment in the decentralized scientific finance project Bio protocol, which aims to achieve scientific research data rights confirmation, transparent allocation of experimental funds and commercial sharing of results through blockchain technology.

Now, Yzi Labs has added instructions for investing in Biotech in both its official website and Twitter introduction. Four.meme, the most popular meme launch platform on Bnb Chain, will also provide DeSci tags when token creation.

DeSci's popularity has attracted the attention of a large number of scientific researchers. After Defi attracts traditional financial practitioners and NFT attracts artists to join Web3, scientists of all sizes may also be running to bring new narratives and new additions to Web3.

In addition to CZ, he is optimistic about investment on the track, more often, he extends his influence to the latest news in the market in the name of trying.

Taking Meme coins as an example, CZ went from blatantly showing that Meme coins had no actual value at the beginning, to acknowledging Meme coins in an interview, to "end" and watching Degens compete for fomo for their dog Broccoli, to posting a message to joke that TST test coins should pay Binance Logo fees, to publicly expose the donation address and then stir up the Meme donation market, to causing trouble for Ronaldo to forward the celebrity coins issued on Bnb chain, and finally to investing in Binance-derived MUBARAK a few days ago. It can be said that it is CZ's busy figure that has created every popular product of BNB Chain's large market value Meme.

It is interesting to talk about that CZ's operations in the MUBARAK incident are textbook-level: After Binance announced on March 13 that it had received the MGX investment in Abu Dhabi, CZ personally forwarded the Middle Eastern style tweet of Binance's Chinese account with the text "mubarak"; the next day forwarded the "MUBARAK=CZ" meme created by the community; the dynamic with the image of Mubarak on the 15th, triggering a 150% increase in token prices in a single day; on the 16th, MUBARAK and TST purchased on the chain directly pushed MUBARAK's market value to exceed US$100 million.

This three-stroke mode of "tweet interaction - community creation - on-chain operation" most directly transforms CZ's personal influence into strong market momentum. Data shows that it took only 4 days from the concept to the market value of MUBARAK, with a maximum daily trading volume of US$88.1 million, and a liquidity pool depth of less than US$5 million, fully reflecting the characteristics of "attention is capital" in the Meme economy dominated by CZ. This operational model is in sharp contrast to the "Broccoli" contest, when CZ only triggered a brief craze of $20 million in market value through watching the community quarrel. Today, BNB Chain Meme has evolved into a systematic traffic operation with CZ as the anchor of attention.

Although CZ basically cut off its direct relationship with these Meme tokens, its change in attitude towards Meme does show changes in its relationship with the community and even the entire crypto industry, giving all the top KOLs a vivid lesson in using the "attention economy" to maintain the ecological popularity when the market is sluggish.

**Entering education: The practice of social transformation of the

richest man**

However, the one who called out the most was the Giggle Academy, who started his business again. This open education platform is a strategic-level project in his transformation territory. On March 3, CZ posted a message "One kid at a time, times 6000 now." to congratulate Giggle Academy on its breakthrough in the number of users.

Giggle Academy was launched on March 19, 2024. It will gamify new basic education such as mathematics, literature, science, physics, biology, finance, and even programming, AI through blockchain technology, and reconstruct the learning and certification system in decentralized ways such as NFT and on-chain badges.

Giggle Academy tries to solve two major pain points: one is to improve learning retention through gamified design (the platform data shows that the average daily study time of users increases by 23% compared with traditional online courses), and the other is to break the dilemma of academic inflation -when the learning process is recorded irreversibly, talent assessment will focus more on actual abilities rather than diploma packaging. In an interview, CZ emphasized that "it is better to teach people how to fish than to teach people how to fish." Education is a key tool to address global inequality, and blockchain can provide transparent and verifiable solutions.

However, he also emphasized that Giggle Academy will not issue tokens and be fully funded by individuals, nor will it adopt the [Learn to earn] model of traditional Web3 education promotion. "This can cause a lot of problems," he said. On March 14, CZ issued a statement saying that it will launch a recommended earning point mechanism, but it is not a cryptocurrency. This "anti-Web3 bubble" design just highlights its pragmatism that promotes the implementation of technology. It can be seen that what CZ is aiming to reconstruct using blockchain technology is not only the learning evaluation mechanism, but also the universal model of global education.

**Crypto Leaders: Finding the Middle East between Industry and

Individuals**

In just 170 days, CZ's X-day average posts amounted to 2.135, an increase of 37% compared with his Binance Ceo period, and the content involving industry trend analysis, project incubation progress and personal investment philosophy accounted for more than 60%. This high-frequency interaction is not just a leisurely "retirement life" but rather a sophisticated identity reshaping experiment - by downplaying the label of "Binance Founder", CZ is constantly shifting personal IP from "exchange powerhouse" to "crypto ecosystem empowerers".

Before being imprisoned, CZ, as an early crypto preacher and the actual manager of the First Central Exchange, was subject to industry compliance and regulatory pressures. He even made it clear in 2023 that he would "will not invest in such projects (Memes). This position is closely related to the compliance image of its centralized exchanges - at that time, Binance was facing global regulatory pressure and needed to keep a distance from high-risk assets. Therefore, CZ will be launched more as a builder, calling on people in the industry to join BUIDL Web3. In fact, CZ once admitted in an interview that he had never used Defi. Coincidentally, CZ posted on X on February 23 that it was the first time he used DEX (decentralized exchange), which caused an uproar.

However, when CZ was released from prison, Binance completely paid off the settlement fees reached with the US Department of Justice, and CZ was forced to leave the nominal Binance management, CZ, which can set the tone in one word, objectively became the largest Kol of the BNB chain and the entire Binance ecosystem, regardless of whether it was proactive or not. Even when the BNB Meme market storms, most people's eyes were directly on CZ, hoping that he could represent BNB to take over Sol and ignite the BNB Chain ecology. In fact, CZ's response to Meme and participation in the community gradually transitioned from casting a stone to asking for directions to a systematic and comprehensive layout.

However, it is undoubtedly true that whether or not he serves as Binance CEO, CZ still finds it difficult to divest its relationship with the crypto empire he created. As the largest shareholder with a 90% stake, although he does not participate in daily decision-making, major strategic adjustments still require consensus on the board of directors; and as the founder, the market's over-interpretation of his remarks may trigger a chain reaction. In the currency circle, it is said that "profit and loss are the same as the source", and CZ's influence and resistance also come from its most successful product -Binance.