Key Takeaways One of Celsius’ co-founders, S. Daniel Leon, reportedly stepped down as the company’s chief of strategy today. Leon resigned just one week after co-founder and CEO Alex Mashi...
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Web3 Education Can Help Creators ‘Own a Piece of the Internet’: Nas Company Exec
Palestinian-Israeli Nuseir Yassin, 30, has turned his viral vlogs, started in 2016 on Facebook, into a fledgling media empire on its own. The two-year-old startup has upwards of 50 million followers a...
Almost everything could be tokenized in 5-10 years — Matrixport exec
In five to ten years, almost every “real world” asset class could be tokenized in the form of a nonfungible token (NFT) according to Cynthia Wu, Founding Partner and COO of digital asset service platf...
Chief exec Alex Mashinsky resigns from Celsius Network
Alex Mashinsky, chief exec of Celsius Network, announced on Tuesday in a press release he has resigned from crypto lending firm Celsius Network. During the company’s ongoing bankruptcy proceedings, Ma...
Crypto Is Capitol Hill’s Last ‘Bipartisan Issue,’ Coinbase Exec Says
Shirzad said there is “little dispute about the importance of having regulation,” both from progressive and conservative lawmakers, but the issue of which U.S. agency should be charged with regulating...
Animoca Brands hires Gemini finance head as CFO, bulks out exec team
Software and crypto funding heavyweight Animoca Brands announced a new group of top-level executives on Thursday, with the appointment of a new chief financial officer, head of legal for commercial an...
Ex-Visa exec Michele Quintaglie joins Algorand as Chief Marketing Officer
Algorand (ALGO) has appointed Michele Quintaglie, a former executive at Fidelity Asset Management and Visa Inc. (NYSE: V) as its Chief Marketing Officer, according to a press release obtained by Invez...
Chill! Crypto Will Recover Pretty Soon, JP Morgan Exec Predicts
The crypto industry as a whole is experiencing a severe downturn right now. Bitcoin’s price has dropped by 15% from its weekly high. Since the Merge, Ethereum’s price has fallen by 23 percent from its...
Sports sponsorship is helping legitimize crypto in Australia — Coinjar exec
The sponsorship of high-profile sports and teams may be key to legitimizing the crypto industry to the general masses, according to Luke Ryan, Head of Content at Australian crypto exchange CoinJar. In...
Fixed interest rates to create a DeFi 2.0 for institutions, says former bank exec
Infinity Exchange, a new platform providing institutional grade capital efficiency in decentralized finance (DeFi), announced a $4.2 million seed round in a bid to boost institutional adoption for DeF...
Pantera Capital Loses Another Senior Exec as Crypto Hedge Fund’s CFO Ryan Davis Departs: Source
Chief Financial Officer Ryan Davis is leaving, according to a person with knowledge of the matter. Matt Gorham, a Pantera strategic adviser with ties to the 19-year-old company dating back to its pre-...
Former Fidelity Exec Rick Synrod Joins Bitcoin IRA
Rick Synrod – a former executive with 401k and retirement giant Fidelity – will take over as the new chief operations officer for Bitcoin IRA, a digital currency platform that allows people to place t...
JPMorgan hires former Microsoft exec for payments and blockchain role: CoinDesk
A former Microsoft executive will join JPMorgan as a senior payments executive in the bank’s payments group, CoinDesk reported. Tahreem Kampton will focus on the future of payments, including the digi...
What Bear Market? Crypto Exec Buys $18.3 Million Townhouse
Alex Dovbnya Coinbase executive Joe Lallouz has bought a lavish townhouse in Brooklyn just months after the company’s CEO purchased a Bel Air mansion Joe Lallouz, head of Coinbase Cloud, has bought an...
Morgan Stanley Exec Jumps Ship to Crypto
Ex-global head of macro electronic trading at Morgan Stanley joins crypto liquidity provider B2C2 Former Revolut and Coinbase pro jumps to Algorand Foundation Blockchain-based payments solutions provi...
Crypto Exec Bankman-Fried Spends Big on Politics
Sam Bankman-Fried – crypto billionaire and head executive of FTX, one of the largest (and newest) digital currency platforms in the world – is spending millions of dollars on this year’s midterm elect...
Ethereum [ETH]: Is the Merge really ‘priced in?’ This exec claims…
Ethereum is edging closer to the Merge right now, with the launch scheduled for 15 September. The Merge has already given a sharp boost to Ethereum [ETH] trading over the past month. According to data...
‘We need to learn what regulation works and what holds us back’ — Hedge fund exec
With more institutions joining the Web3 space, regulation has been identified as one of the trickier challenges that can either smother creativity or become a catalyst to broader adoption. In an inte...
Bear market uncertainty is the perfect time to build and learn, says Sato exec
The decisions made by companies during bear markets play a pivotal role in determining their longevity in the crypto ecosystem. Representing Canadian Bitcoin (BTC) mining firm Sato Technologies, COO F...
Ripple Exec Talks Crypto Crash
Alex Dovbnya Ripple executive Sendi Young says that it is hard to know whether crypto market has bottomed In a recent interview with London-based media outlet Financial News, Sendi Young, Ripple’...
Ex-OpenSea Exec Argues NFTs Are Not Securities to Dismiss Insider Trading Charges
Lawyers for former OpenSea product manager Nate Chastain have filed a motion to dismiss the insider trading charges against the ousted NFT marketplace employee. Filed Friday, the motion argues that NF...
Crypto Prime Brokerage Enlists Ex-Wells Fargo, JPMorgan Exec
Peter Eliades says he looks to expand on Floating Point Group’s existing presence across 50 institutional accounts The executive spent the last three years as head of electronic sales and trading at W...
Toyota Exec Says Lack Of Consumer Demand Makes U.S. Goal Of 50% Electric Vehicles By 2030 A Long Shot
The Toyota bZ4X represents the first of a global series of Battery Electric Vehicles to be … [+] introduced under the global “Toyota bZ” brand umbrella. Photo: Toyota It’s unlikely mass adoption...
Former OpenSea exec claims insider trading laws cannot apply to NFTs
Former OpenSea sea executive Nate Chastain has filed a motion asking a U.S. district court to dismiss insider trading charges levied against him because non-fungible tokens (NFTs) do not meet the req...
Canaan exec says opportunity outweighs crisis as Bitcoin miners struggle with shrinking profits
2022 has been an exceptionally rough year for the crypto market, and the last few months of Bitcoin’s (BTC) price action could be a sign that bears aren’t even close to being ready to let up. Crumblin...
A Quality Exec Comp Plan Lowers The Risk Of Investing In Thor Industries
close up shot of a digital stock market tracking graph follwing a recent crash in prices. Bear … [+] market 3D illustration getty Recap From July’s Picks The Exec Comp Aligned with ROIC Model Po...
Can exchanges create imaginary Bitcoin to dump price? Crypto platform exec answers
One of the most substantial value propositions of Bitcoin (BTC) is that no one can create more of it apart from its fixed supply. However, an executive from a crypto exchange made a bold claim that so...
UN Exec: Regulating Crypto Use Will Make Internet Safe
Ghada Waly, executive director of the UN office on drugs and crime, has argued that restricting the usage of cryptocurrencies can help make the internet a bit safer. Controlling Crypto Will Keep Inter...
Digital Currency Group Picks Top Exec as Lobbyist
Considering its latest move of filing an LDA, Digital Currency Group could be doing more lobbying in the coming times. Crypto investment firm, Digital Currency Group (DCG) has handpicked one of its to...