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CZ: I Underestimated Stablecoins While Running Binance Binance founder Changpeng Zhao (CZ) CZ 🔶 BNB said in a July 16 interview with Talking Tokens Podcast that he had, in some ways, "missed stablecoins" while running Binance and never expected the market to grow as large as it has. At...

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