{"id":1055233,"date":"2026-06-28T09:18:39","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T09:18:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1055233\/"},"modified":"2026-06-28T09:18:39","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T09:18:39","slug":"binance-founder-cz-blames-cryptos-sour-2026-on-mix-of-ai-global-tension-4-year-cycle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1055233\/","title":{"rendered":"Binance founder CZ blames crypto&#8217;s sour 2026 on mix of AI, global tension, 4-year cycle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CZ acknowledged that there is a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/policy\/2026\/06\/12\/former-sec-cftc-chair-gary-gensler-argues-that-prediction-markets-don-t-overrule-state-regulations\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">gambling component to prediction markets<\/a>, but he said that is also true in other financial markets.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;With any financial instrument, there&#8217;s always some speculators,&#8221; he said. &#8220;The speculators actually provide the liquidity, so it&#8217;s good that you have that speculation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Policy futures<\/p>\n<p>The U.S.&#8217;s potential signature crypto policy legislation \u2014 the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act (known as the Clarity Act) \u2014 may become a law by the end of the year if lawmakers can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/news-analysis\/2026\/06\/22\/in-clarity-act-s-final-weeks-its-path-through-u-s-senate-not-getting-much-clearer\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">work out some remaining issues<\/a>, including an ethics provision for government officials, chiefly the president.<\/p>\n<p>But he said the Clarity Act and other individual bills are &#8220;sort of small, tactical things, which are really important, but those are not gonna impact the growth of crypto longer-term.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Even if the Clarity Act does not become law this year, CZ said he expected the U.S. would continue to take a leading role in crypto regulation, adding that other countries were continuing to introduce their own regulations governing digital assets.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. would likely still compete with other countries to introduce rules, and it already has the stablecoin-focused Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for U.S. Stablecoins (GENIUS) Act, he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I, of course, hope to see it get passed, and then every other country will probably copy it to some extent,&#8221; he said. &#8220;If it gets delayed \u2026 other countries may move forward first.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CZ acknowledged that there is a gambling component to prediction markets, but he said that is also true&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1055234,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3163],"tags":[323,1942,51821,289881,289880,289882,2441,53,16,15],"class_list":["post-1055233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-binance","tag-changpeng-zhao","tag-cz","tag-market-structure-legislation","tag-markets","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116826990587699582","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1055233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1055233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1055233\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1055234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1055233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1055233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1055233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}