In recent days, the air in the cryptocurrency circle is filled with a long-lost scent of ink and gunpowder.

CZ's new book (Freedom of Money) has arrived as promised. This long scroll completed in the warmth of iron bars is not just a memoir of an entrepreneur, but more like a confession about 'power and boundaries'.

He wrote about the barrenness of childhood in the book, about the lights of McDonald's, and also about how in the summer of 2017 he intuitively grasped a key called 'freedom' amidst the torrent of a great era.

But as the paper pages turned, those cracks covered by time became clear once again.

The past between OKX and Xu Mingxing (Star) is redrawn in the book. The game between the two giants has never truly lingered on the competition for technology or market share; it is more like a deep confrontation about 'orthodoxy' and 'narrative'. Xu Mingxing's words on X are sharp, as if defending a misread dignity; while CZ's insistence in his writing carries a stubbornness after sailing through many trials.

In fact, this kind of conflict has no so-called 'win or lose'.

Beneath the cold backdrop of finance, the rise of each giant is accompanied by unspoken fragmentation and reorganization. Binance's aggression and OKX's restraint resemble a symbiotic duality in this industry. If you step out of the detailed disputes about 'contract forgery' or 'reporting conspiracies', you will find that these are actually two lonely souls establishing their coordinates in a wasteland devoid of rules, each in their own way.

In a sense, our generation of holders are mere onlookers of these grand narratives.

We observe CZ's resilience, as well as Star's defense.

We are not witnessing a lively 'conflict', but rather watching how this industry attempts to find a semblance of 'order' through repeated intense collisions from the wild growth of 'wasteland'.

The royalties from (Freedom of Money) will be entirely donated to Giggle Academy, which is perhaps the last touch of tenderness CZ leaves in this noisy industry. And the clamor about grievances will eventually be overshadowed by new market trends, leaving only the K-line in the deep night, emitting a faint and stubborn heartbeat.

The world is splitting, yet liquidity always breaks through the gaps.

The book is finished, and the rain should be coming.#CZ $BNB @CZ @Yi He