The funding was intended as the first step towards a future IPO, which Binance still claims is on the cards. Notably, Brooks lost out on the Coinbase IPO when he left to join the OCC. When he took on the OCC role in April 2020, he received $4.6 million for canceling his Coinbase options contract. Just a year later, the stock owned by Paul Grewal, his Coinbase replacement, was worth $300 million when Coinbase was listed.
The majority of cryptocurrencies function without the backing of a central bank or government. Instead of relying on government guarantees, decentralized technology called blockchain underpins the operation of cryptocurrencies.

Users can do a lot with this wallet, including trading thousands of coins, checking prices, surfing chats, and playing blockchain games. It is one of the most secure wallets as it uses private keys, mnemonic phrases, password authentication, and more, to secure holder's assets.
As noted elsewhere by a prominent author in the area [25], there is not a widely accepted or consistent definition of the term “bubble”. The GDASF test used here assumes a bubble is any time series interval which deviates from a random walk to become explosive.