So I wrote this on Medium.com, if you want to read it on Medium you can find it here:
https://medium.com/@creampuff/how-binance-is-becoming-too-powerful-4550f6155f5d
Here is the article:
Before beginning, let’s introduce you to Binance. Binance is a company which ran an ICO in 2017 and launched its cryptocurrency exchange during the same year. They quickly became very popular, and a few months after its launch, the exchange was already the largest one in terms of daily volume. Binance, and even more their CEO, Changpeng Zhao (CZ), is constantly incentivizing companies to use Binance Coin (BNB) as a payment method.
Besides, they recently relaunched Binance Launchpad, a way for users to directly participate in ICO’s on Binance. A few days after that relaunch, most of the major exchanges had already announced their versions of Launchpad, showing the impact of Binance in the cryptocurrency world. And even more recently, Binance Chain, was launched. Binance Chain will not only power Binance DEX, Binance decentralized exchange, but will also power tokens.
That’s scary.
Why?
Because if we take the tokens powered by Binance Chain for example, they will become incredibly dependent of Binance. And actually, it’s already the case without even taking in consideration Binance Chain. If we take a look at a low-cap coin listed on Binance, SONM for example, if they were delisted of Binance, their project would be considered as dead, because it wouldn’t have any volume anymore.
Quick side note: I’m not blaming Binance here, with this article, I’m blaming the other exchanges who aren’t capable of competing with Binance and Ethereum not being capable of competing in terms of scalability with Binance Chain. I actually like Binance, I really do. They have a great exchange, they know what they are doing, and they are certainly the most professional exchange I know. So I don’t have any problem in regards with the product itself, the only thing I’m saying is that they are becoming too powerful.
So the main problem behind Binance Chain is that it gives too much power to Binance because with their blockchain, Binance will be able to put even more pressure on cryptocurrency projects.
Imagine you have a company which has created a dApp and a token based on Binance Chain. You raised funds through Binance Launchpad, and were listed on Binance Exchange. Because you are fully based on Binance, you start accepting BNB, logical right?
Congratulations! You are now officially fully dependent of Binance.
Your dApp activity depends of Binance, most of your clients use BNB instead of your token because it’s much easier, the trading volume of your token fully depends of Binance and 95% of the people who are hodling your token are Binance users because, remember: you ran your ICO on Binance! Because of that, the majority of your token supply is located in Binance wallets.
The result is that your company’s success entirely depends of Binance, not you.
As a conclusion, I think it’s fair to say that Binance is becoming too powerful.
I agree with your submission. Changpeng Zhao is doing his best to monopolise the market. From Exchange markets to blockchain development and he's doing them all right. Its little time before he becomes the biggest figure in cryptocurrency