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The Business & Tech Briefing: Binance CEO takes heat at Abu Dhabi event after FTX fall

In this weekly newsletter, Greg Cohen rounds up the biggest business and technology stories from the region.

Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao sits on the main stage at Abu Dhabi Finance Week (ADFW) in an interview with Mike Novogratz, the CEO of Galaxy Digital Holdings.

Changpeng Zhao, CEO of the largest infrastructure provider in the global $1 trillion cryptocurrency industry, maintained that crypto is the future, despite FTX filing for bankruptcy last week.

But not everyone attending the second day of the Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM) event was buying it. A speaker at the event tweeted about his distrust of Zhao shortly after. 

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