Blockchain Queen: The Binance Charity Chief Making The Cryptocurrency Exchange Do Good

In 2018, Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume, set up its Blockchain Charity Foundation and Helen Hai was hired to lead it. She says completing the (TIEMBA) changed her career trajectory.

In her first 10 months as head of the Blockchain Charity Foundation, Helen Hai has raised more than $3.2 million in bitcoins, fed over 5,000 children, and delivered aid to over 1,000 disaster victims.

Helen’s mission is simple: use blockchain for social good. The charity of cryptocurrency exchange Binance was set up to support people excluded from traditional financial systems; to improve living standards and fight poverty across the globe.

But Helen wasn’t always the benevolent queen of blockchain. Age 30, she was a rising executive in the finance industry; bright, successful, but with a feeling, she says, that something was missing.

An MBA with purpose

When Helen was born in a fourth-tier city in China in 1978, China’s GDP per capita was around $150. China…