The cryptocurrency market has dropped by over 70% since the start of the year, but the world’s largest crypto exchange is still expected to rake in a hefty profit.
Changpeng Zhao: Binance Has Ten Million Users
The first half of 2018 hasn’t been kind to the cryptocurrency market, with the collective value of all cryptocurrencies seeing a 70% decline. Some have even gone on to say that investors are leaving the industry en-masse, but for Binance, that does not seem to be the case.
Changpeng Zhao, CEO of the world’s largest exchange, told Bloomberg that he expects Binance to make a minimum of $500 million in profit in 2018 alone. With the best-case scenario resulting in a cool $1 billion in annual profits.
This isn’t a fruitless prediction, with the trading platform accruing $300 million in revenue in the past six months. This substantial revenue figure is a result of Binance’s rapidly budding user base, along with near-consistent volume levels.
According to Zhao, his company has now supported over ten million customers, generating an average of $1.5 billion in trade volume each and every day. To give the user base figure a bit of perspective, Binance only had two million users at the start of 2017.
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