{"id":12984,"date":"2025-02-13T19:46:54","date_gmt":"2025-02-13T19:46:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=12984"},"modified":"2025-02-13T19:46:54","modified_gmt":"2025-02-13T19:46:54","slug":"binance-founder-cz-sidelines-xrp-solana-and-sparks-bnb-chain-meme-coin-frenzy-with-his-dog-broccoli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=12984","title":{"rendered":"Binance Founder CZ Sidelines XRP, Solana And Sparks BNB Chain Meme Coin Frenzy With His Dog &#8216;Broccoli&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/25\/02\/43682927\/changpeng-cz-zhao-mulls-over-community-suggestion-of-a-dog-based-memecoin-pretty-interesting-how-things-work\"><strong>Binance <\/strong>founder<strong> Changpeng Zhao<\/strong><\/a>, known as \u201cCZ,\u201d ignited a meme coin frenzy and subsequent backlash in the crypto community after sharing a story and photos of his dog, a Belgian Malinois named <strong>Broccoli<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>While CZ explicitly <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/cz_binance\/status\/1890075311141974411\">stated <\/a>he was not creating a meme coin himself, the post prompted the launch of hundreds of tokens bearing the dog\u2019s name on the <strong>BNB Chain<\/strong> (CRYPTO: BSC).<\/p>\n<p>What Happened: In his <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/cz_binance\/status\/1890071433214038103\">tweet<\/a>, CZ explained that he chose the name \u201cBroccoli\u201d because it starts with \u201cB,\u201d has some \u201cgreen in it,\u201d and has a \u201cblocky sound, as in blockiichain.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCan\u2019t get away from crypto, haha,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>The resulting proliferation of \u201cBroccoli\u201d themed meme coins on BSC drew immediate criticism from some corners of Crypto Twitter. <\/p>\n<p>Twitter&#8217;s crypto scene reacted with a mix of excitement, skepticism, and outright cynicism. <\/p>\n<p>Some traders saw it as another &#8220;BNB pump&#8221; orchestrated by CZ, while others &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/markets\/cryptocurrency\/25\/02\/43708655\/binance-founder-cz-sidelines-xrp-solana-and-sparks-bnb-chain-meme-coin-frenzy-with-his-dog\" alt=\"Binance\" founder cz sidelines xrp solana and sparks bnb chain meme coin frenzy with his dog>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Binance founder Changpeng Zhao, known as \u201cCZ,\u201d ignited a meme coin frenzy and subsequent backlash in the crypto community after sharing a story and photos of his dog, a Belgian Malinois named Broccoli. While CZ explicitly stated he was not creating a meme coin himself, the post prompted the launch of hundreds of tokens bearing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-12984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12984\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}