After Kevin Zhou, the co-founder of the hedge fund Galois Capital, revealed half of the firm’s assets were held on FTX, another crypto asset management firm called Ikigai detailed that “a large majori...
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Ownership is the future of digital entertainment, says blockchain exec
Web3 is uprooting traditional entertainment industries with a new way of creating and engaging with digital content. The industry has already seen nonfungible tokens (NFTs) display the potential to tr...
Ripple Top Exec Makes Surprising Offer To FTX Employees As Exchange Files For Bankruptcy ⋆ ZyCrypto
Advertisement     Ripple chief technology officer David Schwartz has indicated that FTX employees are welcome to pursue careers at the blockchain cross-border payments...
Is USDT exposed to FTX? Read what this Tether exec has to say
Tether’s CTO addressed concerns over USDT’s exposure to FTT USDT daily volume sees a spike Members of the cryptocurrency community have been questioning prominent stablecoin companies about their enga...
Former BitGo, Curv exec launches new crypto wallet security firm
Even in the crypto bear market, new companies are springing up to tackle old problems. Fordefi — which offers a wallet platform that allows institutions to engage across various chains — is eme...
FTX exec revealed as big donor to Oregon Democrats following misidentification
A senior FTX executive has been revealed as the reported mystery donor behind a massive $500,000 contribution to the Democratic Party of the American state of Oregon. According to local reports, the O...
Chinese central bank exec says digital yuan will offer ‘controllable anonymity’
Chinese central bank governor Yi Gang, in a recent speech at Hong Kong Fintech Week, talked about the progress of their national digital currency called the digital yuan. He outlined the progress and ...
Huobi Global denies ‘large-scale layoffs’ and key exec resignations
Huobi Global says it has no plans to conduct “large-scale layoffs” and has refuted reports that two of its top executives have resigned amid a takeover of the Seychelles-based crypto exchange. Reports...
Crypto Exec Do Kwon Must Forfeit His Passport
Do Kwon – the man behind the doomed digital currency company Terraform Labs – is now set to lose his South Korean passport as authorities continue to hunt him down like a wild animal. Do Kwon Falls De...
Troubled BitMEX loses chief exec amid BMEX token delays
The chief exec of troubled BitMEX crypto exchange has suddenly quit, just weeks before listing its own BMEX token in a 2017-style ICO. The firm has operated for five years sans token, yet plans to lis...
Ex-OpenSea exec dodges insider trading charge, wire fraud trial to continue
U.S. Judge Jesse Furman said the insider trading charge against former OpenSea employee Nate Chastain is “misleading” and should be removed from the record, but the wire fraud trial will continue. The...
Former Celsius Exec Joins JPMorgan as New Crypto Policy Head
JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon may be calling cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin “decentralized Ponzi schemes,” but this hasn’t stop the world’s largest investment bank from hiring a new head of digital assets r...
JPMorgan hires former Celsius exec Aaron Iovine
JPMorgan (NYSE: JPM) has hired Aaron Iovine, a former regulatory affairs executive at bankrupt crypto lender Celsius (CEL/USD), only a few weeks after he left the embattled crypto company. Reuters rep...
JPMorgan Assigns Ex-Celsius Exec As Crypto Policy Lead
JPMorgan Chase, a multination investment bank in order to extend its services into the crypto industry has hired a new head of digital assets regulatory policy. This move landed after the bank’s 3rd q...
JPMorgan Taps Former Celsius Exec As Crypto Regulatory Policy Director
Nothing supersedes personal experience. At least that seems to be the case with a new JPMorgan Chase hire this week, as the financial firm has brought in former Celsius executive Adam Iovine to serve ...
Institutions ‘moving very, very fast’ into crypto — Coinbase exec
Institutional adoption of digital assets is “moving very, very fast,” and much faster than the rate nascent industries ordinarily develop at, says Coinbase senior adviser John D’Agostino. In an Oct. 1...
Industry exec explains why NFT fraud protection falls on brand and not marketplaces
Nonfungible token (NFT) marketplaces should commit to combat fraudulent NFTs, but brands are far more responsible for protecting NFT investors, according to one industry executive. Brands that issue N...
NFTs will be ‘as disruptive’ as Bitcoin was 10 years ago — Kraken exec
Nonfungible token (NFT) trading volumes may have dropped nearly 98% since January, but several industry executives tell Cointelegraph that it’s nothing to fear as the technology continues to develop a...
Beyond Meat exec Doug Ramsey out after nose bite arrest
Douglas Ramsey Source: Washington County, Arkansas Beyond Meat Chief Operating Officer Doug Ramsey, who had been suspended following an arrest for assault, has left the company. Ramsey left the compan...
Crypto Exec Do Kwon Says He’s Willing to Cooperate Following Arrest Warrant
Not long ago, Live Bitcoin News reported that in the nation of South Korea, an arrest warrant had been issued for Do Kwon, the crypto executive behind the failed algorithmic stable coin Terra Luna. It...
Crypto Exec Ryan Salame Donates Millions to GOP Candidates
Ryan Salame is a 29-year-old libertarian-leaning republican who also works heavily in cryptocurrency. He runs FTX Digital Markets in the Bahamas where he presently lives, and he just shelled out more ...
OpenSea hit in ongoing crypto exec exodus as CFO resigns
Ibiam Wayas Ibiam is an optimistic crypto journalist. Five years from now, he sees himself establishing a unique crypto media outlet that will breach the gap between the crypto world and the general p...
OpenSea Exec Leaves Just 10 Months After Joining
Brian Roberts, who joined OpenSea after working at Lyft, Walmart, and Microsoft, said he is leaving the company just ten months after joining it. This is the latest example of cryptocurrency executive...
Crypto cards to connect digital assets to the real world, says exec
Simone Binotto Torre explained that some parameters like geography can make it difficult for crypto cards to have broader adoption. At the Blockchain Economy Dubai Summit 2022, Cointelegraph spoke wit...
Bear market didn’t stop crypto firms from hiring— Recruitment exec
Recruitment firm executive Clayton Pullum said that companies have become more strategic when it comes to hiring during the crypto winter. With crypto companies like Coinbase announcing layoffs earlie...
Nasdaq To Launch Its Own Crypto Exchange After Regulatory Clarity, Top Exec Says ⋆ ZyCrypto
Advertisement     According to Tal Cohen, the company’s Executive Vice President, Nasdaq is likely to launch its first-ever cryptocurrency exchange once there is great...
Bitcoin can solve the DeFi onboarding crisis, argues exec
Bitcoin.com CEO Dennis Jarvis believes that Bitcoin can be a bridge that leads users to the decentralized finance space. As the decentralized finance space remains plagued with hacks, people have beco...
Prosecutors Hunt for Terra Luna Crypto Exec Do Kwon
A court in South Korea has issued an arrest warrant for crypto executive Do Kwon, the head and founder of blockchain platform Terraform Labs. Kwon is facing charges of fraud following the collapse of ...
Coinbase intensifies push into derivative trading with new exec hire from Goldman
Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase has hired Usman Naeem as its new head of global derivative sales and agency trading in London, according to a LinkedIn post. Naeem spent eight years at Goldman Sachs,...
Bankrupt Crypto Lender Celsius’ Rocky Year Just Got Worse With Departure Of Yet Another Senior Exec ⋆ ZyCrypto
Advertisement     After now-former CEO of Celsius Alex Mashinsky stepped down from his position last week, co-founder of the cornered crypto lender S. Daniel Leon has ...
Celsius co-founder Daniel Leon follows Mashinsky out as crypto exec flight continues
S. Daniel Leon, who cofounded Celsius with Alex Mashinsky in 2017, has quit his job as the bankrupt crypto lender’s chief strategy officer, CNBC reported Oct. 4, citing unnamed sources and an internal...