Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) raked in thousands from crypto executives including FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried and Gemini’s Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, according to her latest fundraising report. Gill...
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New York Senator Receives Over $150,000 From Crypto Execs
Senator Kirsten Gillibrand campaign finance report revealed that she received over $150,000 in donations from crypto stakeholders. According to the funding report, Democrat Senator for New York, decla...
Latest in Crypto Hiring: MoonPay Adds Range of Senior Execs
MoonPay’s new executives bring experience from Block, Coinbase and others OpenSea became the latest to announce job cuts as crypto downturn lingers Crypto payment service MoonPay has filled several C-...
Compass Mining retrenches 15% of staff, execs to take major pay-cuts
Ongoing strife in the cryptocurrency space has forced Compass Mining to lay off 15% of its employees while top executives and staff take major pay-cuts. The firm announced its decision to downscale it...
JPMorgan Lost These Three Execs To Crypto Firms This Week Despite ‘Crypto Winter’ ⋆ ZyCrypto
Advertisement     JPMorgan Chase & Co., America’s largest bank, has witnessed the departure of three of its top executives this week. In what seems like a cruciall...
Trio of JP Morgan Execs Leave For Crypto Jobs
Even as crypto firms shed workers and seek bankruptcy protection in a brutal market downturn, executives from traditional finance are still heeding the siren song of Web3. Former JP Morgan executives ...
Trouble Deepens for Crypto Players as Top Execs Summonsed
India’s Directorate of Enforcement (ED) has summonsed top crypto bosses to further probe if the platforms are in violation of foreign exchange rules, a report has confirmed. An official told the Econo...
Energy Stocks Oneok and Chesapeake Energy Are Down. Execs Bought Up Shares.
Text size Energy firms Oneok and Chesapeake Energy saw large insider share purchases. Dreamstime.com Two energy firms caught up in a recent price slump saw large insider share purchases. President Joe...
Online lottery ticket firm Jackpot gets funding from top sports execs
Online lottery ticket company Jackpot announced Wednesday that it closed on $35 million in series A funding, led by some of the biggest names in sports who see the promising growth potential in digita...
Chinese chip designer founded by former Canaan execs seeks $50 million Nasdaq IPO
A Chinese designer of computing chips founded by former executives of bitcoin mining firm Canaan is seeking to go public in the United States. Nano Labs filed papers with the Securities and Exchange C...
‘Really Dumb’: Coinbase CEO Slams Employee Petition to Remove Execs
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong called an online petition anonymously created by his employees “really dumb on multiple levels.” The petition, made public on Friday, calls to remove COO Emili...
Coinbase lays off 18% as execs prepare for recession, ‘crypto winter’
Coinbase Founder and CEO Brian Armstrong attends Consensus 2019 at the Hilton Midtown on May 15, 2019 in New York City. Steven Ferdman | Getty Images Coinbase is laying off almost a fifth of its workf...
Coinbase CEO tells workers to quit if they don’t believe in top execs, after petition for leadership changes
Coinbase Global Inc. has had a rough stretch lately, as plunging prices for cryptocurrencies have dampened trading interest and prompted the company to curtail rapid hiring plans. The company also see...
Prominent crypto execs expect thousands of coins to perish
? Want to work with us? CryptoSlate is hiring for a handful of positions! Prominent executives from some of the largest crypto companies talked to CNBC about the current market situation, and all agre...
A16z and Coinbase execs back new crypto VC fund Canonical
New venture capital firm Canonical Crypto has officially launched with its inaugural $20 million fund, joining a series of crypto funds raised in recent weeks. Canonical Crypto’s backers include...
SoftBank Execs’ Pay Slashed After Historic Vision Fund Loss
(Bloomberg) — SoftBank Group Corp.’s top executives saw steep cuts in their paychecks as the Japanese conglomerate marked a historic loss for its Vision Fund unit. Most Read from Bloomberg The c...
Crypto Execs Think Bear Market Is Good for Industry
Alex Dovbnya Some cryptocurrency executives do not want to sweat over another bear market Cryptocurrencies have been pummeled this year so far, but some cryptocurrency executives think that this is a ...
Crypto execs believe bear market could help filter bad players from industry
? Want to work with us? CryptoSlate is hiring for a handful of positions! Leaders of various blockchain and crypto organizations believe recent turmoil in the digital assets market could help eliminat...
Bribery Scandal To Cost Glencore $1.1 Billion, While Billionaire Execs Avoid Blame—For Now
Glencore’s former CEO Ivan Glasenberg retired in 2021. Getty Images Marc Rich, the legendary commodities trader, fled the United States for Europe in 1983 after being indicted for trading Iranian oil ...
Former OnlyFans execs set to launch influencer NFT trading card app
The former CEO of OnlyFans has a new web3 venture; a platform for trading digital playing cards of celebrities and influencers. Known as Zoop, it will launch on Polygon in a move aimed at capitalizin...
$100 million fund founded by ex-Binance execs comes out of stealth
Former executives from crypto exchange Binance have revealed a $100 million fund focused on blockchain investments. The fund, named Old Fashion Research, was founded in late 2021 by former Binance VP ...
Coinbase Execs Dismiss Talk of Robinhood Acquisition
In brief Coinbase executives blew off suggestions the company team up with Robinhood. On an earnings call, the company made clear it intends to stay the course in building for the long term. Coinbase ...
U.S. Targets Bank Execs And G7 Pledges To Cut Off Russian Oil
Topline Members of the Group of Seven committed Sunday to banning or phasing out Russian oil imports, and the United States will sanction three of Russia’s biggest TV channels and 35 Russian banking e...
What happened to Elizabeth Holmes and Sunny Balwani? Where the shamed Theranos execs are today
In 2014, Theranos founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes was dominating the front covers of renowned business magazines for being the youngest self-made billionaire in the world. In 2022, she’s making headl...
Ex-Jefferies execs launch crypto exchange for institutional traders
Two former Jefferies executives are launching Crossover Markets Group Inc., a crypto exchange for institutional traders. The exchange aims to increase the speed at which investors can trade cryptocu...
Why Are Big Oil Execs Dumping Millions Of Dollars Worth Of Stock?
Senator Elizabeth Warren and her fellow Big Oil critics may have finally got some literal proof that the oil industry benefits directly from the imbalance of supply and demand: Big Oil executives are ...
94% of Surveyed Execs Have Blockchain Project Plans
Fortune 500: A survey of 200 Fortune 500 executives has lit up the march of blockchain technologies and how prolific they will be in the near future. The survey, commissioned by Rapid Innovation, show...
Facebook Is Broken. Execs Say a Fix Won’t Come Fast.
Meta Platforms, the former Facebook, has come under heavy fire from Congress, regulators, and even its own users, but there has been nothing like the crisis it now faces. Its core business is decelera...