As we see, things aren't going well for Changpeng Zhao and more likely for Binance too, especially when it's becoming very clear that they are into very shady things: Binance employees are helping users in China to bypass KYC, directly violated U.S. derivatives laws, manipulates with trading volume and probably manipulates with Futures Trading too.
Decentralized exchanges are good alternatives if someone wants to feel safe and secure and in control of their funds but they lack a lot of features compared to centralized ones. For example, Binance has features like: Futures trading, options, leveraged tokens, swap farming, DeFi Stacking, Liquidity Farming, Launchpad and so on. These features attract a lot of users but p2p exchanges lack them. So, there are people who choose centralized exchanges because of that.
So, my question is, if Binance goes down, which centralized bitcoin exchange are you going to use? Personally, I think that Coinbase will become more popular because it's number two exchange by popularity at the moment and what makes it more attractive compared to Binance is that it's the San Francisco-based company, has been in business since 2012.
I do not think that we have any alternative to binance at this moment because there is no centralised exchange that can match the volume of binance at the moment. At one time, i thought that FTX was one of the exchange which may overcome binance in the future but Binance CEP CZ just removed that exchange and competition from the market, making Binance more than bigger than ever.
Yeah one can think of Coinbase or Kraken exchange, to be the best alternatives but we are looking for the Chinese exchanges that may lead in the market after Binance
I will still be using binance but make sure I only put trading funds on that site in case any mishap happens. I still do not trust dex as they still lag in volume, liquidity and more importantly they do not possess same level of service as the centralized exchanges.