According to the Hurun Report WeChat official account, Hurun Research Institute released (2024 Hengchang Shaofang Hurun Rich List), and former Binance CEO Zhao Changpeng ranked 16th on the list with a wealth of 135 billion yuan. The article mentioned that although Zhao Changpeng was arrested in California in the past year and paid a total of more than 7 billion US dollars in fines, his wealth still increased by 90 billion yuan from last year (ranked second on the list with the largest wealth growth), reaching 135 billion yuan, mainly due to the increase in the total transaction volume of virtual currencies in the past year, as the price of Bitcoin rose 130% from the same period last year to 65,000 US dollars. In addition, the market value of virtual currency exchange Coinbase has more than doubled from 19 billion US dollars to 46 billion US dollars. It is reported that Zhao Changpeng of Binance just made the list in 2018, and now his wealth is also over 100 billion.
