#Binance : the
#AWS crypto world that drives the global digital economy
Since its foundation in 2017, Binance was born with two clear promises: liquidity and global accessibility. What started as an exchange created by
#ChangpengZhao (CZ) evolved in less than a decade into a critical infrastructure of the global crypto system. Today, Binance is not just an intermediary for buying and selling tokens, but the highway where a large part of the economic activity of the crypto ecosystem flows.
The turning point was its transition from an exchange to an ecosystem. With the launch of Binance Smart Chain, today
$BNB Chain, the company bet on hybrid decentralization: a centralized core for efficiency and compliance, combined with an open blockchain for permissionless innovation. This enabled the development of DeFi protocols, staking, DEX, games, and liquidity pools, reaching billions of dollars in locked value and more than 1,400 million daily transactions.
The next leap was to become large-scale Web3 infrastructure. Binance today acts similarly to AWS in the tech world: it offers APIs for institutional trading, price oracles used by DeFi, cross-chain bridges, and solutions like Binance Cloud and Trust Wallet. Even rival exchanges use its prices as market references.
Its impact is cross-cutting. For users, it democratizes financial access, especially in regions with weak currencies through P2P and stablecoins. For markets, it defines prices and global liquidity standards. For governments, it represents a regulatory challenge, but also an infrastructure impossible to ignore. In summary, Binance went from being an exchange to a structural pillar of the global crypto system.