He Yi recounts the '1011' darkest 72 hours: Waking up every day feels like the sky is falling again, yet she has become the toughest female warrior in the crypto world**
On December 3, Binance's Chinese meeting.
For the first time, He Yi used the phrase 'darkest moment' to describe the terrifying night of October 11, 2025, when 1.6 million people across the internet were liquidated, and $19.3 billion turned to dust.
'I only slept 2-3 hours a day, and every time I opened my eyes, there was a new disaster: The K-line was criticized and modified, customer service was bombarded, WBETH decoupled to $430, USDe dropped to 0.65... It felt like the sky didn't just fall once, it fell again every day when I woke up.'
At that time, she was on vacation with her child, but her phone rang like thunder, nonstop. At that moment, she truly understood what it meant to be the 'chief customer service officer.'
But she didn't break down.
She and her team worked non-stop for 72 hours, freezing abnormal accounts, recovering as much money as possible, issuing transparent reports, urgently launching Binance Alpha, and extinguishing all the fires they could.
Then she took the stage and smiled at everyone, saying:
'Not making money is a cognitive problem; When faced with difficulties, it’s just that we haven't found the optimal solution yet. Once the solution appears, the sky will brighten.'
A girl who came out of a rural area in Sichuan, once a host on a travel TV station, served as the youngest vice president at OKCoin, worked with CZ for 5 months to make Binance the number one globally, the day CZ went to jail, she took over and stabilized 200 million users, on '1011', she pulled Binance back from the edge of the cliff.
Now, she has officially become the co-CEO of Binance.
Some say she is the number one woman in the crypto world, I say she is the toughest female warrior in the crypto world.
All along this journey, she has never been truly defeated, because she knows better than anyone: In the world of crypto, when the sky falls, you hold it up, if you can't hold it, you first prop up someone else's sky, and then re-weld your own sky.
Salute to He Yi, and also salute to everyone who chooses to find solutions in the darkest moments.
Before dawn, the darkest hour often stands the toughest person.$BNB
