Binance founder Changpeng Zhao shared his long-term vision for BNB during a discussion with David Namdar of BNB Network Company. Zhao highlighted BNB’s transformation from an exchange token to a multi-chain asset, unveiled a plan to attract institutional capital through a US-listed treasury vehicle, and emphasized stablecoins and real-world asset tokenization as key drivers for the ecosystem’s next stage of growth. BNB Evolves Beyond Its Exchange Roots Changpeng Zhao, better known as CZ, opened the discussion by clarifying that “Binance Coin” is now a historical term rather than a current definition. BNB originally debuted as an ERC-20 token to raise funds and offered trading discounts on Binance’s centralized exchange
source: https://beincrypto.com/cz-outlines-bnbs-next-growth-phase-and-institutional-pathways/