#币安八周年
This is also my eighth year of trading cryptocurrencies.
I don't write useless articles, no AI, no flattery.
I want to tell everyone how amazing Binance is from my perspective.
It has given many people the opportunity for financial freedom.
How it became the top exchange today.

2017, the rise of Binance.
2017 was my first year in the crypto space; I entered in September and bought Bitcoin for 20,000, which halved in a week due to the 94 crackdown on exchanges.
At that time, there were still many exchanges like Huobi, OKEx, Binance, AEX, and ZB.
I didn't understand anything back then; I bought BTS with friends, mainly using Huobi and AEX, which have now gone offline.
The most regrettable thing is that BTS made several times profit, and the funds reached millions. I had a thought at that time to spend 200,000 on the cheapest coin on an exchange.
At that time, I was considering whether to go to AEX or Binance for altcoins.
In the end, I bought on AEX and only made four times profit; two months later, I looked back.
The coin I wanted to buy on Binance increased a hundredfold; it's really a pity I missed out on twenty million.
At that time, people in the group said that Binance would eliminate coins below one dollar, and it really did happen; I really missed out.
Yes, during that stage, all you needed to do was to mindlessly buy the cheapest coins.
Old investors can come out and prove it.
Am I speaking the truth?
But back then, I was also a newbie; I bought whatever my friends bought. Who knew to buy BNB when it was just one dollar? Now it's 600 USDT, and it has nothing to do with me.

Also, back then, some exchanges charged withdrawal fees based on a percentage. For example, AEX charged 0.5% or something like that; it was really expensive.
Binance was probably the first to allow withdrawals for a certain amount of USDT without charging based on a percentage.
It seemed to be the only platform at that time that charged only 0.1% for spot trading, while others charged 0.2%.

2019, the benefits for BNB holders during IDO.

At that time, the first few rounds needed to be snapped up; as long as you got in, you could earn ten times.
Later, because it was all tech, it changed to being evenly distributed.
At that time, you had to hold BNB, and now BNB is quite cheap.
Then many exchanges started to follow suit. Yes, they were all following trends; the leader is always the leader.
Up to now, BNB launchpool and airdrops have added up to nearly a hundred projects.
Where are the imitators from back then now?
I vaguely remember that at the beginning of the first IDO, BNB was about 10 USDT.

2020-2021, the summer of DeFi.

I think it started from the UNI airdrop.
Binance also seized the opportunity; basically, DeFi coins that were popular came to Binance's spot trading a bit faster than other exchanges.
But many DeFi coins were listed on Binance a day before, and Huobi followed the next day.
It's said that now the BSC chain is mostly played by locals.
Back then, BSC was all foreigners.
Huobi and OKEx both imitated BSC to create their chains, but what happened? They stopped doing it after a few months.
Which popular chains from back then are still active now?

2022, sneaker projects; a carnival for our circle.
Sneaker projects emerged during the bear market, launched first on Binance, also a Launchpool project.
At that time, it was really amazing; my friend had a group of about 60 people, and over 20 went to a gathering. Everyone made millions from this project.

2023, inscriptions.
ORDI was launched on Binance in October; when the announcement was made, it was about 6 USDT, and it peaked at nearly 100 USDT.
If ORDI hadn't been listed on Binance, it really wouldn't have gained traction.

By the end of 2024, the meme boom.
Lowercase, it had a market value of 20 million before being listed on Binance, and at its peak, it reached a market value of 1 billion.
Similarly, the PNTU on Binance’s spot trading reached a peak market value of 2.5 billion, breaking the meme ceiling.
This is the liquidity of the top exchange.

In these eight years at Binance, to be honest, if you were playing the right exchanges early on and chose Binance instead of others, you might have already achieved financial freedom.

Whether it was the altcoin bull market in 2017 or a keen sense of altcoins, eliminating coins below one dollar.

Or you hold BNB long-term for eight years, seeing 4000 times growth from 0.15 to 650 USDT.

Whether it's DeFi, NFTs, blockchain games, memes, or inscriptions, the moment you get into spot trading on Binance, you can still eat well. You don’t even need to be an alpha.

So where is the next tenfold opportunity for Binance!

@CZ @Yi He