The looming $62 billion crypto-infection
In 2017, cryptocurrency exchange Binance created the first new type of blockchain-based digital asset: the BNB coin, designed to encourage customer behavior such as trading or referring friends to its own platform. "A model for building a scalable and efficient cryptocurrency business," CoinDesk editor Pete Rizzo said in 2019 after Binance moved the coin to its own blockchain. "Incredible brilliance.The…