

BINANCE FOUNDER UPGRADE

In September 2020, the Binance Smart Chain (BSC) was launched.In April 2019, the ERC-20 mainnet swap took place, with BNB swapped for BEP2 tokens.In April 2019, the Binance Chain mainnet was launched with pre-selected validators producing blocks.

In February 2019, Binance launched the DEX testnet for the new era of peer-to-peer cryptocurrency trading.100,000,000 units of BNB, which is 50% of the total supply, were offered by the token sale. The altcoin was issued and launched during an Initial Coin Offering (ICO) crowdfunding event that happened between June 26 to July 3. He is the co-founder and CEO of Binance, which is the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume. Changpeng Zhao, aka CZ, is a Chinese-Canadian business executive. With a mission to build the infrastructure powering the world's parallel virtual ecosystem, BNB Chain has committed itself to be open, multi-chain, permissionless, endlessly decentralized, for creators and inventors, and bigger than and separate from Binance.įormerly known as Binance Coin, BNB, which stands for "Build and Build," was created by Binance in 2017. Within the Binance Exchange ecosystem, BNB is used as a utility token, allowing users to receive discounts when paying for their trading fees.īNB Chain is the result of the merger of Binance Chain and Binance Smart Chain. It was initially issued as an ERC-20 token on the Ethereum platform, but it was later transferred to the main BNB Chain. BNB is the native token of the Binance ecosystem that powers the BNB Chain ecosystem.
