Binance Crypto Empire Dwarfs FTX at Peak and Dominates Industry 

In every single corner of the crypto landscape, one name pops up: Binance.

Run by Changpeng “CZ” Zhao, the world’s largest crypto exchange is a dominant force in everything from Bitcoin trading and digital art to venture capital. With its power and influence only increasing after the collapse last year of Sam Bankman-Fried’s FTX empire, the inconvenient truth is that Binance has a grip on the $1.1 trillion industry that has few parallels in traditional finance. That’s despite all the decentralization talk from crypto’s true believers.