Social media giant Facebook hired two compliance managers from cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase, CoinDesk reported. Mikheil Moucharrafie left Coinbase after serving the company for nearly 4 years. He used to work as a...

Leading cryptocurrency exchange Bitstamp has announced that it has hired former Coinbase executive Hunter Merghart is joining the company as Head of U.S. Operations. The announcement follows a recent redesign of...

Crypto payments processor BitPay has announced the appointment of Glen Braganza as its Chief Financial Officer. Braganza will bring his extensive experience spanning 15 years in private equity and public markets with a...

MIT professor Christian Catalini is working on Facebooks cryptocurrency project, two anonymous sources familiar with the matter told CoinDesk. Earlier this year, reports started floating in the media that Facebook was...

The United States District Court of the Southern District of Florida has ordered Craig Wright, who claims to be bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto, to produce a list of all his public bitcoin addresses, Cointelegraph...

Tradewind, a fintech company digitizing precious metals using blockchain technology, has announced the appointment of former J.P. Morgan executive Michael Albanese as chief executive officer. Founded in 2016, Tradewind...

Gibraltar Blockchain Exchange (GBX) has announced that former Country Executive for ABN AMRO Bank Kurt Looyens has been appointed as its new chief executive officer. Looyens joined the GBX in July 2018 as Head of...

Bitcoin futures exchange Bakkt has announced the appointment of Mike Blandina as its Chief Product Officer. In August 2018, Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), the operator of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), announced...

Fidelity Digital Assets, an institutional provider of crypto custody and trade execution services, has announced Christine Sandler as the head of Sales and Marketing. Sandler joins the company from Coinbase...

The United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is looking to hire a crypto specialist, a recent job posting has revealed. The job posting on an official government jobs portal, USAJobs, states that the SECs...

Crypto liquidity provider B2C2 has announced the appointment of Rob Catalanello to lead the companys expansion into the U.S. Catalanello, an industry veteran, will lead B2C2s U.S. operations as CEO of B2C2 USA. He will...

Concordium, an identity-validating, compliant blockchain network, has announced that former Prime Minister of Denmark Anders Fogh Rasmussen has joined as a Strategic Advisor. Prior to serving as Prime Minister of...

New York-based blockchain startup Digital Asset has announced the appointment of company co-founder Yuval Rooz as the new Chief Executive Officer (CEO), effective immediately. Rooz takes CEO reins from AG Gangadhar who...

The Stellar Development Foundation (SDF), a non-profit organization supporting the development and growth of the open-source Stellar network, has announced that Denelle Dixon will join as its Executive Director and Chief...

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commissions chairman Jay Clayton has agreed to the analysis by the SEC staff that found that Ethereum is not a security. In a speech last year, William Hinman, Director of the Division...