TOP 10

It ’ s no surprise that Changpeng Zhao tops our list . After all , he did build a crypto empire in less than six months – an incredible feat . Born in China , Zhao later moved to Canada with his family at the age of 12 , where he studied Computer Science at McGill University in Montréal before learning about bitcoin during a poker game in 2013 . Despite cryptocurrency still being a nascent area , Zhao decided to throw everything he had at it , even selling his apartment to buy bitcoin .

When he started Binance in July 2017 , he wanted to build a platform that combined the high frequency of trading platforms – much like the ones he helped build for the Tokyo Stock Exchange and Bloomberg ’ s Tradebook when he was fresh out of college . After some initial setbacks , he then transformed Binance into a decentralised platform with a global workforce . Today , it is the largest crypto exchange with daily trading volume of US $ 76bn .

110 August 2022