Illicit transactions make up a far smaller share of digital-asset activity than they do in traditional finance, Binance founder Changpeng Zhao said in comments cited by Wu Blockchain on August 15. He put illegal activity at about 0.0014% of all digital-asset transactions and argued that blockchain transactions are easier to monitor because records are public and fund flows can be traced. Zhao said that distinction matters when assessing the sector: criminal acts should be judged separately from the technology used to carry them out, just as the use of banks or fiat currencies by criminals does not make those systems inherently problematic.