Josh Swihart , chief executive of Electric Coin Company (ECC), posted on X at 19:40 UTC on Jan. 7, 2026. “Yesterday, the entire ECC team left after being constructively discharged* by ZCAM,” he wrote. ZCAM was his abbreviation for four directors of Bootstrap, the 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that provides governance oversight for ECC: Zaki Manian, Christina Garman , Alan Fairless and Michelle Lai .
· Josh Swihart quits as Electric Coin Company CEO, and its whole team leaves with him
Josh Swihart Quits Electric Coin Company With Its Whole Team
Electric Coin Company's chief executive announced on Jan. 7, 2026 that its entire team had left the nonprofit that governed it.
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- Alan Fairless
- Christina Garman
- Jack Grigg
- Josh SwihartElectric Coin Company, CEO
- Michelle Lai
- Rajiv Sawhney
- Zaki Manian
- Zooko Wilcox
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Electric Coin Company · Bootstrap · Zcash Open Development Lab · Zcash Foundation · Zashi · Zcash · Binance · a16z crypto · Paradigm · Winklevoss Capital · Coinbase Ventures · NEAR · Wave Digital Assets · CoinGlass · Grayscale