Binance’s Yi He Raises User Ambition to 3 Billion

Binance, founded in 2017, has grown into one of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges, placing its senior executives at the center of an industry facing rapid expansion and tighter regulatory scrutiny. Co-founder Yi He became co-chief executive in December 2025 alongside Richard Teng. A recent profile described the business as an $80 billion crypto empire, highlighting the scale of the platform and the operational demands attached to running it.

Yi offered a rare look at those demands in a vlog documenting a Hong Kong trip, saying she slept for only about three hours while moving through meetings, events and management duties. At the Hong Kong Web3 Festival on April 20, 2026, she said Binance had about 300 million users and raised its long-term target to 3 billion from 1 billion. Reaching that scale would require Binance to move beyond crypto trading and become global financial infrastructure spanning everyday payments, wealth management and round-the-clock asset transactions, she said.