Binance CEO: What's NEXT for Binance in 2026? Richard Teng on He Yi as Co-CEO, Compliance as Focus
•December 26, 2025
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Why It Matters
Binance’s aggressive user‑growth plan and bolstered compliance framework could accelerate mainstream crypto adoption, while its push for regulatory harmonization may reshape global crypto policy and competitive dynamics.
Key Takeaways
- •Binance targets one billion new crypto users by 2026.
- •Focus on Latin America, Asia‑Pacific, and Middle East expansion.
- •Compliance now 22% of staff, spending up 30% annually.
- •New co‑CEO He Yi appointed to steer next growth phase.
- •Binance seeks global regulatory harmonization to eliminate banking hurdles.
Summary
Binance CEO Richard Teng outlined the exchange’s strategic roadmap through 2026, highlighting a massive user‑growth ambition, a revamped leadership team and an intensified compliance push. He announced the appointment of He Yi as co‑CEO, positioning her to co‑lead Binance’s next phase of global expansion and product development.
Teng emphasized that Binance now serves roughly 300 million users and aims to onboard an additional one billion crypto participants. The firm is targeting high‑velocity markets in Latin America, the Asia‑Pacific corridor and the Middle East, while acknowledging that fragmented regulations and banking restrictions still impede adoption. Compliance has become a core pillar, representing 22 % of the global headcount—about 1,300 staff—and seeing a 30 % year‑on‑year spend increase.
He cited a user’s struggle to purchase a million dollars of Bitcoin due to local banking hurdles, underscoring the need for uniform regulatory standards. Teng also addressed past missteps, noting that early‑stage errors have been corrected and that Binance now operates in 21 jurisdictions with a “most regulated” status. The Trump pardon of CZ was mentioned as a political footnote that does not alter Binance’s compliance trajectory.
The announcements signal Binance’s intent to cement its position as the world’s largest crypto platform, while pushing governments toward clearer, harmonized frameworks. For investors and industry participants, the move suggests deeper institutional credibility, broader market penetration and heightened regulatory scrutiny moving forward.
Original Description
When Binance sets its sights on 1 billion users, what changes next, and how does new leadership accelerate the plan? In this Binance Blockchain Week 2025 highlight, Binance CEO Richard Teng outlines the exchange’s 2026 direction: pushing deeper into licensed markets, partnering with governments to harmonize rules and remove debanking hurdles, and investing heavily in compliance — while unveiling a new leadership structure with co‑founder He Yi as co‑CEO.
With Binance now at roughly 300 million users, Richard Teng maps the growth hotspots (Latin America, Asia Pacific, Middle East) and the work required to onboard the next wave: uniform standards, fair access to banking rails, and real education and use cases. He also addresses past early‑days missteps, why the regulatory landscape has evolved, and how Binance’s compliance transformation — 21 regulated jurisdictions, 1,300 people in compliance (22% of global headcount), and +30% YoY compliance spend — underpins trust going forward.
In this highlight, Richard Teng covers:
✅ 2026 growth path: licensed markets, user education, and real‑world use cases to onboard the next 1 billion
✅ New Binance leadership: He Yi named co‑CEO to strengthen community focus and bottom‑up strategy
✅ Global hotspots: Latin America, Asia Pacific, and the Middle East moving fastest on crypto adoption
✅ Regulatory harmonization: working with policymakers to remove debanking and uneven hurdles
✅ Compliance at scale: 21 jurisdictions, 1,300 compliance staff (22% of headcount), +30% YoY compliance spend
✅ Past vs. present: acknowledging early missteps, the shift to clearer rules, and demonstrating change
⏱️ Timestamps:
⏳ 00:00 — Introduction
⏳ 00:24 — What's Next for Binance? Aiming for 1 billion users and harmonizing more markets
⏳ 00:59 — What's Next for Binance? Working with global policymakers to decrease onboarding obstacles for certain countries
⏳ 01:56 – What the new leadership means to Binance (Pardon of CZ, He Yi appointed co‑CEO)
⏳ 02:40 – Binance's compliance transformation: 21 jurisdictions, 1,300 staff, +30% YoY spend
⏳ 03:17 – Binance's decision to appoint He Yi as co-CEO as a bottom-up strategy
⏳ 04:15 – Closing: CNBC host on Richard Teng’s openness
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