CZ apologized in a letter submitted to the judge in charge of the case on Tuesday, saying that necessary compliance controls should be established at Binance, and looking forward to the future, he hopes to support biotech startups and young people. There are also 161 other letters of support from family and friends hoping for leniency. CZ's sister, Jessica Zhao, a former managing director of Morgan Stanley, said that although her brother made mistakes, he lived to do good for others, citing the example of FTX that Binance did not abuse customer funds; He Yi said that if the cryptocurrency industry is compared to the Wild West, then CZ is the guardian of this wilderness; CZ's wife Yang Weiqing said that Binance donated tens of millions of yen to the disaster areas in Japan in 2018.