BlockBeats News, December 18, Binance founder CZ spoke at today's year-end Q&A session, discussing how he manages his personal work focus, his views on BNB Chain and the future development of the crypto market, how to assess the direction of key tracks and milestones, and his personal advice on entrepreneurship and investment project focuses.CZ stated that currently Giggle Academy, YZi Labs, the BNB ecosystem, and driving national cryptocurrency adoption are the four things he spends the most time on. BNB Chain has shown significant growth this year, with annual transaction volume increasing by about 600% and daily active users surpassing 2 million. CZ believes that BNB Chain only needs to continue building value for true builders. The scale of the BNB ecosystem should surpass any single business within the ecosystem in the future—this includes centralized exchanges and various protocols.Like other top industry participants, CZ also gave high praise to the stablecoin track and believes that a "better" stablecoin has not yet emerged on a large scale. "The market space is huge, and I think what we are currently seeing is just stablecoin 1.0. Further stablecoins have yet to be widely introduced; we are just getting started. What we see now is stablecoin 1.5, such as FDUSD and USD1."Regarding the emerging track of "prediction markets" in this rare bull market cycle, CZ stated that he cannot currently determine which project will come out on top. However, the project that wins out in the next hot event can temporarily gain an advantage. "The next highly anticipated event should be next year's U.S. presidential election (midterm elections), right? I think that by that time, a team that can remain on call 24/7 and unwaveringly focused is likely to succeed, at least in the short term. It will be a very interesting phase that requires the team's full commitment. But true victory is achieved through long-term competition."AI and robotics are the focus of attention in the U.S. stock market and the global technology sector, and CZ believes that both will be closely linked to cryptocurrency. "I expect that in the future, artificial intelligence and robots will massively use cryptocurrency. It is not happening now, but eventually they will—there is no other choice." However, when discussing AI Agent trading products, CZ did not express optimism because he believes that if AI Agents are truly viable, the project team would not easily sell them to users but would use them internally. In a capital market, which is a zero-sum game, if everyone uses the same AI strategy, it will eventually lead to minimal, or even failed, effectiveness of the strategy. "If everyone in the market is using it, then it won't be as effective. However, overall, I do believe that AI will indeed be widely used by traders in their own unique ways."Referring to investment in startups, CZ stated that he personally prefers to long-term support mission-driven builders. He said, "Adapting the product according to market demand is good, but if you completely change direction every three months, it means you do not truly love something." Against the backdrop of constantly changing market demand, team execution is the most important thing CZ looks at when investing in projects. For entrepreneurs, there is no fixed formula for success, and the path to success is varied. "There are still many opportunities in the future."Despite the recent industry downturn or re-entry into a bear market, when it comes to the development of the crypto field, CZ stated that everything is still in its early stages, with significant room for development. He said, "I believe that the current adoption rate of cryptocurrency is still only in single-digit percentages—depending on whether we are calculating by the number of people or by total wealth. If we calculate based on the existing total wealth, the penetration rate may be less than 1%. I think the scale of cryptocurrency still has several orders of magnitude of growth potential."

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