The Wall Street Journal: Binance once tried to hire SEC Chairman Gary Gensler as an advisor

ChainCatcher news, according to a report by The Wall Street Journal citing numerous sources from Binance, during 2018 and 2019 when Gary Gensler was a professor at MIT, Binance attempted to hire him as an advisor, but Gensler declined.

It is reported that in October 2018, Gensler held a meeting with former head of Binance's venture capital department Ella Zhang and Harry Zhou. Harry Zhou stated, "Although Gensler declined to serve as an advisor, he was generous in sharing licensing strategies." (The Block)