2 The money circle boss who is richer than Li Ka Shing , Just bought a building in Saudi Arabia

source ： Rongzhong Finance （ID：thecapital） author ： Abu edit ： We

“ We don't need to raise additional funds . as far as I am concerned , We have much more money available than others in the industry .”

Someone commented on Zhao CHANGPENG ,“ The poor want to turn over , You have to bet .” Others added ,“ Apart from bitcoin , Anyone who can make a lot of money is illegal .” 

With the collapse of bitcoin, the world's largest virtual currency , Chang Peng Zhao “ Return to poverty overnight ”, Wealth has shrunk nearly 90%. But in fact , Through the accumulation of the past few years , Want the once richest Chinese to return to poverty , It's not that easy . 

Through money security and investment in virtual currency , Zhao CHANGPENG's wealth accumulated rapidly . according to 2021 The annual rich list shows , Zhao CHANGPENG is famous for his family 5733 Billion ranked first on the list , Compared with the well-known Li Ka Shing , Asset excess 3665 Billion . 

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In a recent interview , Zhao CHANGPENG once talked about his investment in the virtual currency world , And speak up ,“ We don't need to raise additional funds . as far as I am concerned , We have much more money available than others in the industry .” 

Years old 45 Year old zhaochangpeng , Start investing without money . 

01  The road to the richest man of Chinese ： Daily turnover 5000 One hundred million yuan , worth 960 Billion dollars

Zhao CHANGPENG, who changed from a farmer with ordinary code to a billionaire, only used 180 God . The currency security currency trading platform led by Zhao CHANGPENG is being launched 42 Days later, it reached the top of the trading volume 10 position ,92 Days later, before arriving 5,156 Days later, before arriving 3, And in 165 Days later, I reached the first . 

2018 year 2 month 《 Forbes magazine 》 List Zhao CHANGPENG as “ The richest man in cryptocurrency ”,2018 year 5 month , Its value exceeds 13.9 Billion dollars . From a programmer who doesn't change his name to make a net profit , To the richest man of Chinese , Zhao CHANGPENG has some mysterious colors . 

Zhao CHANGPENG's father is an expert in the field of computer ,1977 Zhao CHANGPENG was born in Lianyungang, Jiangsu ,1987 In, my family moved to Canada . Since I was a teenager , Zhao CHANGPENG began to bear family expenses , He worked as a clerk at McDonald's , I also worked late at the gas station . 

After college , Zhao CHANGPENG is responsible for developing the system used by the Tokyo Stock Exchange to match orders , It was here that he had in-depth contact with the financial industry for the first time . Then he went to Bloomberg , Develop futures trading software .27 At the age of , Zhao CHANGPENG, known as a programming wizard, is not here 2 During the year, we obtained 3 Second promotion , Has become the leader of regional teams in New Jersey and Tokyo . 

Although he has become the team leader , But Zhao CHANGPENG's inner world is obviously bigger , He decided to leave the United States and return to Shanghai , meanwhile , Zhao CHANGPENG founded his own company Fusion Systems. The company develops the fastest high-frequency trading system for securities companies . 

2013 Around the year , The concept of bitcoin began to be more widely accepted . The largest bitcoin exchange at that time Mt.Gox Handled the global 70% The above transaction . The price of bitcoin rises , More and more multinational companies recognize it as a currency , stay 2013 year 12 month 1 The daily price is breaking new highs , rose 1150 One dollar . As technology advances ,Coinbase Established and rapidly expanded , And get it quickly 2000 First round financing of US $10000 . Capital quickly enters , Accelerated the popularity of bitcoin . 

This year , Zhao CHANGPENG learned from a poker friend , It's also that venture capitalists learned about bitcoin . He started working on a number of different cryptocurrency projects . 

He joined the cryptocurrency wallet Blockchain.info The team , Become the third member of the team . thereafter , He once worked on the trading platform between legal tender and digital currency OKCoin Less than a year as CTO . 

But only for a year , Zhaochangpeng just because “ infighting ” I can't go on . at that time , Zhao CHANGPENG once issued a statement saying , OKCoin The cold wallet is kept by Xu Mingxing's wife and mother-in-law , And Xu Mingxing fought back , Zhaochangpeng cheated the company , Academic fraud 、 Selling company interests, etc . 

2017 year , Zhao CHANGPENG is not satisfied with investing in other platforms “ Paid the tolls ”, So he founded coin security . And the initial capital of entrepreneurship , It's his money to sell his house in Shanghai . But less than a year later , House prices in Shanghai have doubled , Bitcoin fell by two-thirds . For a time, he had nothing but his cell phone , No other assets , Become a “ Pauper ”. 

But clearly , Zhao CHANGPENG is a firm believer in bitcoin , Don't care about the current house price , What's more? , Coin an was founded 3 After a month , Profits will reach 750 Thousands of dollars ; establish 6 More than months , Qian'an announced a profit 2 Billion dollars , More than Deutsche Bank , Shocked the financial industry . data display , Money security is that the daily trading volume can reach 760 Billion dollars , About equal to 5000 RMB 100 million , Equivalent to the London Stock Exchange 、 New York Stock Exchange 、 The Hong Kong stock exchange is the sum of the three . 

Unlike other cryptocurrency trading platforms , Coin security is not limited to bitcoin 、 Transactions in mature currencies such as Ethereum , Instead, it is widely integrated into a large number of emerging currencies . 

According to the Coingecko reports , Coin security offers more than... On its international exchanges 350 A token transaction , It is the ancestor of cryptocurrency trading platform 、 The first bitcoin exchange in the United States with a formal license Coinbase Provide more than twice the transaction volume . The profit model of coin security is mainly the handling fee charged by platform transaction and cash withdrawal . 

According to rules , Money security can charge the highest from the transaction 0.1% The cost of ,760 $100 million can be charged up to 7600 $10000 . 

It is worth noting that , Cryptocurrencies are more mature than , Emerging cryptocurrencies are more speculative . And coin security also provides the service of converting encrypted currency into bitcoin or US dollar , This facilitates a variety of complex transactions , It's also easier to harvest leeks . 

at present , The digital currency issued by Qian an BNB（ A coin ）, It is the fourth largest digital currency in the world , The total currency value is about 650 Billion dollars .2021 year , Less than six months ,BNB Has created an increase 1400% The miracle of . And Zhao CHANGPENG's personal wealth also rose , Although Bloomberg set its value at 960 Billion dollars . But it does not include Zhao CHANGPENG's digital assets . 

02  Investment is not bad money ： One year investment 100 A project , The total current market value of the project is about 70 Billion dollars

When creating wealth miracles , Zhao CHANGPENG began to devote himself to creating a world of virtual currency . In addition to the trading platform of coin security , He helped the virtual currency project blossom all over the world through investment . 

Industry , There is no statistics about Zhao CHANGPENG's investment , But according to past sporadic reports , Opened the way for Zhao CHANGPENG and his virtual currency investment . 

As early as 2018 year , Qian an was in 2018 Annual direction Terra Ecosystem investment 300 Thousands of dollars , To obtain the 1500 m Luna Tokens, . Zhao CHANGPENG said , With Luna The highest price of , This investment has doubled by more than 500 times , achieve 16 Market value of US $100 million , But money security did not pass cash out and other operations “ Landing is an ”. 

stay Luna And UST After collapse , The value of the investment has plummeted to 2000 Up and down the dollar , The evaporation range exceeds 99.99%. 

Maybe it's to maintain stability , Zhao CHANGPENG said , In order to set an example in protecting users , Qian an will put this matter aside first , And ask the Terra The project team first compensates retail investors , If you can't make all the compensation , Coin Ann will take over . At the same time, it also forwarded another netizen's suggestion and expressed support , The netizen said that the second scheme should give priority to those with thousands or more UST Money exists Anchor Small investors in the project . 

According to foreign media The Block reports , The money and security exchange has been working since the recent 10 $billion financing to Luna investment 3 US $100 million in negotiations , But the deal has not yet been completed . 

in fact ,Luna It is only the tip of the iceberg that Zhao CHANGPENG invested in the field of virtual currency . 

This year, 3 month , Qian An has invested in the cryptocurrency sector in France 1 Billions of euros （ about 1.08 Billion dollars ）, Zhaochangpeng announced , The company has partnered with the world's largest startup Park Station F cooperation , And invest 1 Billion euros to help cultivate French cryptocurrency start-ups . For Qian an , This will be the first time that the company will directly participate in the incubator project . Zhao Chengpeng said , The purpose of this investment is to develop the entire industry by supporting the cryptocurrency sector in France . 

Zhao CHANGPENG said , Except to France Web3 Beyond the millions invested in entrepreneurship , Qian'an also plans to send personnel to Paris , In order to provide advice and broad support for cryptocurrency startups in France .“ We will invest in it , Provide advice on token economy , If its products get attention , We hope to help them with their initial sales , Then we hope to provide liquidity for them through listing ,” He said . 

Except France , As early as 2020 In, coin Security announced its investment in Indonesia's leading compliant encrypted asset trading platform in Jakarta Tokocrypto, To speed up the Tokocrypto The pace of business growth , Including new products and services 、 Technology upgrade 、 Nationwide business expansion and new blockchain education plans in various regions . 

In India in the same year , Coin Security acquired India's famous cryptocurrency Exchange WazirX. The currency is settled in 4 Support for point-to-point cryptocurrency transactions using Indonesian rupiah and Indian Rupee was launched in August . In the same month , It announced the acquisition of encrypted data websites CoinMarketCap, This is one of the most eye-catching platforms in the industry . Zhao CHANGPENG, chief executive of coin security, told reporters earlier , The company gives priority to “ Cooperation with domestic exchanges with existing banking relationships , Enable them to accept transactions in local legal tender .” 

India 、 The French 、 The United States …… Zhao CHANGPENG's investment path has spread all over the global market . Money security investment blockchain projects have become less , But it has successively acquired the option platform JEX、 Decentralized application analysis platform DappReview、 Invest in derivatives trading platforms FTX etc. ( There may be unknown ), Subsidized 59 Developers . These achievements are difficult to achieve in general coin holders . only 2019 year , Qian An is finished 9 Sub wholly owned acquisition ( So far, only three have been announced ：JEX、appReview、WazirX)、 Include FTX , , Total investment 21 companies 、 funding 59 Developers , Support them to develop some new concept products . 

What's more, it's worth mentioning , Besides foreign investment , Qian'an established the social fund and entrepreneurial company incubator Qian'an laboratory inside the exchange （Binance Labs）, according to the understanding of , In the past three years , The laboratory has invested heavily in this field , And reaped huge returns . Zhao CHANGPENG revealed that ,“ In the past three years ,Binance Labs About to 100 Projects have invested about 1.3 Billion dollars . Now , The total current market value of these tokens or items is about 70 Billion dollars , Slightly more than BNB.” 

Another example , Zhao CHANGPENG also invested 5000 Thousands of dollars “ Little ” I invested a lot , The target is the hottest one in the currency circle recently StepN. 

Investments all over the world , Does Zhao CHANGPENG have so much money ？ Zhao CHANGPENG said ：“ We don't need to raise additional funds . as far as I am concerned , We have much more money available than others in the industry .” 

03  Bitcoin has plummeted , But Zhao CHANGPENG didn't stop , Investment is expanding

last year 11 month , Bitcoin has made a historic 6.9 Ten thousand dollars high , Zhaochangpeng, who holds a variety of cryptocurrencies and grasps currency security, has a net worth of 958 Billion dollars （ renminbi 6400 One hundred million yuan ）, Zhao CHANGPENG's personal assets soared , Far away, Li Jiacheng 、 Zhong Zhuo and other big men left behind . 

But in recent days, , As bitcoin plummeted, Zhao CHANGPENG's personal wealth grew from 960 $billion down to 116 Billion dollars , evaporation 844 Billion dollars （ renminbi 5736 One hundred million yuan ）, Decline of nearly 90%. 

But clearly , Zhao CHANGPENG's investment did not stop because of this , He even said , Will accelerate the pace of acquisition . 

Zhao CHANGPENG said ：“ This downturn may last for four years . First , I don't deny that this is a disastrous crisis , But since it is a crisis , There must be opportunities .” 

2020 year ,Odaily When planet daily interviewed Zhao CHANGPENG , He once mentioned the reasons for his investment . 

First, for the development of money security , Enrich products and businesses . 

Second, acquisition “ cost ” A lower . If Qian'an re recruits people to do new business , The growth rate of the company will be very slow , And you may not find the right person . Besides , The probability of the teams that Qian'an wants to acquire is higher than that of Qian'an ( Do these new businesses by yourself ) Do better . Since I can't fight , It's better to buy . 

Third, support the development of the industry . As the head exchange in the early stage of the industry , Money security is relatively profitable , It also has the ability to support the development of the industry . If the developer's project is doing well , Qian an can give sponsorship first , Let him develop the product , As for shares or tokens, they are not the first consideration of Qian an . 

As mentioned earlier ,2019 Nian Yuanan subsidized 59 Developers , Zhao CHANGPENG also mentioned the amount of funding and funding Standards . He said , The amount of funding varies from country to country . Take the United States for example , Generally, it will be subsidized for three months , Every month 5000 dollar ; In underdeveloped countries ( For example, Africa or India ), It's usually ( Every month )1200 dollar , The funding period is one year . In underdeveloped areas , Most young developers don't have high requirements for quality of life , Such a subsidy amount is still enough for them to live . About funding Standards , Money security generally subsidizes some more interesting 、 Projects that can help the industry or money security develop itself . at present ,80%  All the funding projects are related to money safety chain . 

04  Alternative investment , Hot money hit real estate 、 sports 、 Games and social

In addition to investing in the world , Zhao CHANGPENG also seems to realize that we should not put all our eggs in the same basket . In addition to the virtual currency world , Zhao CHANGPENG's hot money began to expand . 

The first is to smash into Saudi Arabia . 

Due to regulatory issues , Zhao CHANGPENG once worked all over the world “ stray ”, From China 、 Japan 、 The British , Then to the United States and Singapore , Were ordered to leave . Word got out , The CSRC is investigating whether Qian'an is involved in money laundering and tax evasion or provides channels for it , And whether there is “ Market manipulation and insider trading ” The possibility of . It is also reported that , Coin security may have achieved up to... Through its platform 23 Billion dollars of money laundering . 

Now? , Zhaochangpeng put his hope in Dubai 、 Vietnam and other countries . As report goes , Zhao CHANGPENG has become a frequent visitor to the United Arab Emirates , The reason is not hard to imagine , He hopes to introduce coin an to the royal family , Put a Saudi account on the coin . 

In order to speed up feelings , Zhao CHANGPENG bought an apartment in Dubai , And near the world's tallest building, the Khalifa tower , And the city's Jumeirah palm island . buy a house 、 It's not enough to become a sponsor of Lazio in Serie A , Zhao CHANGPENG also worked with Lazio star imobile , Just captain Lazio's multiplayer game company GL17CH, Sign an agreement with it , And in Musk's acquisition of twitter ,“ Put together ”5 Billion dollars of excitement . Zhao CHANGPENG thinks this 5 Billion dollars , yes “ A small contribution to this deal ”. 

In order to get a registered permanent residence, I have been busy making relations with the Saudi royal family , Zhao CHANGPENG also invested in Forbes . Forbes issued an official announcement , Call it a special purpose acquisition company （SPAC）Magnum Opus Acquisition Limited, Got... From Qian'an 2 $100 million strategic investment . What's interesting is that , Before that , Forbes just announced “ Global blockchain 50 Strong and complete list ”, And in the list , There is no coin . 

In addition to entering Dubai , Invest in Forbes , Zhao CHANGPENG is still trying to cut into the field of sports . 

Previously, some fans asked Zhao CHANGPENG to buy Lazio , Zhao CHANGPENG said “ We don't usually buy football clubs ”. And not for long , According to a message on Hupu's message board , “ Currency security ” A spokesman revealed , Founder Zhao CHANGPENG once tried to buy Chelsea club from Abramovich , But the final deal was not implemented . 

The spokesman said , Zhao CHANGPENG once worked with the United States, which represents Chelsea Club Raine Investment banks have communicated , But in the end “ Owning a football club is not a priority ” To stop further deepening of trading work . 

next step , Zhao CHANGPENG is eyeing the game and social field again . In March he accepted 《 Wealth 》 During the interview, he said , The game industry is mature enough , The time has come for the encryption asset industry to enter the market . 

He also revealed , Qian'an is brewing another bigger deal , This time the subject is ：Twitter. according to the understanding of , Money security promises Elon Musk Acquisition Twitter Planned investment 5 Billion dollars . Zhao CHANGPENG said that he had been encrypting messages with musk app Signal There was a brief discussion on . 

Although it is not known whether this transaction can be concluded , But Zhao CHANGPENG said that Qian'an bought Twitter It may be of great benefit .“Twitter It may be the most important platform for free speech nowadays , I use Twitter The frequency of is higher than that of Qian an .” 

He also conceived Twitter How to generate revenue by encrypting assets , This model is likely to be replicated by other social media platforms . 

Through these years of investment , Zhao CHANGPENG's assets are all over the world , so to speak , Even if bitcoin does return to zero indefinitely one day , He will not be as the media said ： Return to poverty overnight . Big deal , Sell the apartment in Saudi Arabia .