The list of crypto tokens and cryptocurrencies that broke through the psychological $1,000 barrier is very, very, very, very (I could go on) short.

And BNB just joined that particular elite club.

On September 18, 2025, BNB reached $1,005.29, its current ATH, which is a very long way from the all-time low of August 1, 2017 ($0.0961).

Hindsight is always 20/20 but imagine having owned BNB since 2017.

A lot of people assumed the slightly controversial non-firing firing of CZ would break BNB.

As a reminder, in November 2023, Zhao agreed to resign from Binance following US federal charges.

He was replaced by Richard Teng, a completely different type of CEO.

While Changpeng Zhao is a software engineer and tech guy, Teng is a regulator.

Back when he was working at the Singapore Exchange, he was head of regulation and chief regulatory officer.

Translated, he's a natural-born bureaucrat.

So he's a bureaucrat, and the market clearly thinks that's a good thing because BNB is doing better than ever.

This is probably because crypto is now going mainstream, and it is being regulated left and right.

Also, I don't know if you noticed, Binance is basically doing an airdrop a day, a further incentive to buy BNB.