Binance CEO says he didn’t ‘master plan’ FTX collapse

  • Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao said on Wednesday that he “did not master plan” the collapse of rival crypto exchange FTX.
  • In an email to employees that he made public, Zhao said that FTX going down “is not good for anyone in the industry” and that employees should not “view it as a win for us.”
  • The memo comes a day after Zhao said Binance had reached a non-binding deal with Sam Bankman-Fried’s FTX to buy the exchange’s non-U.S. businesses amid a liquidity crisis.