OKEx CEO Jay Hao referred to as out Binance and its CEO Changpeng Zhao for his or her latest assist of sure DeFi initiatives. He additionally claimed that Binance Good Chain, or BSC, is extremely centralized, noting that it’s wholly managed by a single workforce. In accordance with Hao, BakerySwap, constructed on BSC, collapsed after solely 12 hours, resulting in protests in China and elsewhere:
Supply: Twitter.
In the present day’s thread follows up on a collection of tweets from September 15, by which the OKEx CEO condemned Zhao and his fellow Binance co-founder, Yi He, for his or her platform’s hasty SUSHI itemizing. Hao criticized Binance’s “irresponsible conduct which broken the crypto neighborhood’s belief and brought about #DeFi to regress.” He added in one other tweet:
“These monetary losses are a results of blind belief in #Binance. Regardless of @heyibinance’s claims that initiatives on BSC should go all safety audits, $BAKE nonetheless plunged main @cz_binance to delete his BakerySwap endorsement tweet ytd identical to he did with #SushiSwap beforehand.”
It needs to be famous that OKEx listed SUSHI on the identical day as Binance — September 1.
The latest success of decentralized exchanges like Uniswap has positioned centralized exchanges between a rock and a tough place. They need to select to both act too conservatively by not itemizing trending DeFi tokens, and probably lose customers to DEXs — or soar on the bandwagon too quickly, and danger itemizing questionable tokens that go on to trigger devastation to the crypto ecosystem.
Representatives from Binance selected to not remark for this story.