But what about the risk factors? If Binance is holding the coins for us, then there is a chance that these assets can either be stolen or seized. A few years back, Binance hotwallet was hacked and some coins were lost. And there is no guarantee that such a situation will not repeat in the future. And I am hearing rumors about the SEC launching legal action against Binance for sometime. It will always remain like the Damocles's sword. Then another risk factor is centralization. These tokens can be frozen by Binance, if they want to do so.
A lot of rumor that Binance Smart Chain is centralized, not decentralized and if you take a closer look, it's almost copycat of Ethereum, but yet in some use cases, Binance Smart Chain got uses.
Binance Exchange and Binance Smart Chain are different, but yeah Binance Exchange is a big player for Binance Smart Chain (name tells,lol) Without Binance Exchange, Binance Smart Chain is probably not existing.
About the risk factors here since Binance Smart Chain is POS, and there are different validators (
https://bscscan.com/validators) and each of them got voting power, if there is one entity or person got the most voting power that's maybe the risk.