Crypto donors erect a 14-foot-tall gold-painted statue in Washington. D.C to honor Binance's CZ

Anonymous crypto donors and fans said they pooled funds on Tuesday to recognize Binance founder Changpeng Zhao with a 14-foot-tall statue in Washington, ￰0￱ physical monument comes after ￰1￱ Donald Trump pardoned CZ last ￰2￱ organizer named Nick Zee revealed that the gold-painted statue will feature Zhao’s iconic ￰3￱ statue will also feature CZ flashing four fingers up on one hand, which stands for his 2023 goal of ignoring fear, uncertainty, and doubt amid heightened regulatory ￰4￱ donors contribute $50K for the statue 𝕏 Gold Statue of #Binance Founder CZ to Appear Outside ￰5￱ Tuesday for Limited Display as Creators Seek to Gift It After Trump Pardon $BNB ￰6￱ — ￰7￱ (@BecauseBitcoin) October 27, 2025 Zee also confirmed that the statue will first be displayed for a few hours before it is presented to Zhao as a gift or auctioned off to benefit CZ’s nonprofit, Giggle ￰8￱ established Giggle Academy last year after pleading guilty to a criminal charge related to anti-money laundering ￰9￱ nonprofit was also established as part of a $4.3 billion settlement between CZ, Binance, and ￰10￱ ￰11￱ revealed that anonymous donors, comprising four individuals, came together and contributed approximately $50,000 to fund the ￰12￱ also confirmed that the statue took four weeks to be created using a CNC printing machine, which milled the statue from dense foam ￰13￱ CZ statue team has been updating the public with videos showing the statue being polished and transported ahead of its expected public ￰14￱ initiative follows similar attempts to erect statues honoring influential crypto figures in D.

C in recent weeks. A separate group erected a gold statue of Trump clutching a Bitcoin last month in the same spot that the statue of Zhao is expected to be debuted outside ￰15￱ of the spokespersons revealed that BNB Chain also issued a memecoin associated with the initiative under the ticker ￰16￱ the time of publication, the token has a market cap of around $577,000. Zee disclosed that the statue was inspired by fake attacks against Binance’s founder, as well as the recent surge in BNB’s price, which has recently garnered support from the exchange’s ￰17￱ argued that the pardon was like the cherry on the ￰18￱ the time of publication, BNB is currently trading at around $1,137, down by roughly 1% over the past ￰19￱ has also surged by more than 18% over the past 30 days, setting record highs repeatedly in recent ￰20￱ has previously been linked to the Trump family-backed crypto project, World Liberty ￰21￱ Dhabi-based sovereign wealth fund, MGX, tapped the project’s USD1 stablecoin initiative for a $2 billion investment in Binance earlier this ￰22￱ pardons Changpeng Zhao Zhao was indicted in 2024 and spent four months at a minimum security prison in Lompoc, ￰23￱ also resigned his position as Binance’s CEO in 2023 as part of a plea bargain in his ￰24￱ pleaded guilty to breaching ￰25￱ against money laundering at the world’s largest cryptocurrency ￰26￱ House Press Secretary Karolike Levitt acknowledged that Trump exercised his constitutional authority by pardoning Zhao, who was prosecuted by the Biden ￰27￱ also disclosed that the Biden Administration pursued CZ despite no allegations of fraud or identifiable victims, but only in their desire to punish the cryptocurrency ￰28￱ Elizabeth Warren criticized Zhao’s pardon on Thursday, describing the President’s move as indicative of corruption.

“First, Changpeng Zhao pleaded guilty to a criminal money laundering ￰29￱ he boosted one of Donald Trump’s crypto ventures and lobbied for a pardon. Today, Donald Trump did his part and pardoned him.” -Elizabeth Warren, Senator for ￰30￱ also revealed that the Biden Administration sought to imprison the former Binance CEO for three years, calling the sentence outside sentencing guidelines, which even the judge agreed he’d never heard of in his 30-year ￰31￱ acknowledged that the actions by the previous administration severely damaged the U. S.’s reputation as a global leader in technology and ￰32￱ seen where it ￰33￱ in Cryptopolitan Research and reach crypto’s sharpest investors and builders.