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Coincheck Group Names Pascal St-Jean Executive Chairperson
Pascal St-Jean added executive chairperson to his chief executive and president titles at Coincheck Group on September 17, 2026, the same day Takashi Oyagi gave up the role.
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Coincheck Group Names Satoshi Hasuo Temporary Executive Director
Satoshi Hasuo, Coincheck Group's chief stakeholder officer, became the company's temporary replacement executive director on September 17, 2026, the day Takashi Oyagi resigned from the seat.
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Coincheck Group's Takashi Oyagi Resigns as Executive Chairperson
Takashi Oyagi resigned as Coincheck Group's executive director and executive chairperson on September 17, 2026, pulling his own re-election off the agenda eight days before the shareholder vote that was due to decide it.
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William Herkelrath Replaces Staci Warden at the Algorand Foundation
The Algorand Foundation swapped its chief executive and two of its five directors on Sept. 9, and Adam Back's decade-long quantum timeline frames the case against its new pitch.
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Backpack US Appoints Kyle Samani to Its Board
Backpack announced on September 2, 2026, that it had appointed Multicoin Capital co-founder Kyle Samani to its board of directors as the exchange expanded its tokenized equity trading.
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Alexander Urbelis Becomes the ENS Foundation's First Executive Director
ENS tokenholders voted 1.27 million to 480,690 on Aug. 8, 2026 to seat Alexander Urbelis and three independent directors.
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Barbara Humpton Steps Down From MARA Holdings Board
MARA Holdings announced on August 4, 2026, that Barbara Humpton had left its board effective July 31, in a planned transition the Bitcoin miner disclosed alongside two new independent directors.
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Georges Antoun Steps Down From MARA Holdings Board
MARA Holdings announced on August 4, 2026, that Georges Antoun had left its board effective July 31, the same day as fellow director Barbara Humpton, in what the Bitcoin miner called a planned transition.
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MARA Adds Craig Hart and Nancy Novak to Its Board
MARA Holdings named energy investor Craig Hart and data center veteran Nancy Novak as independent directors on Aug. 4, 2026, after two sitting directors stepped down the week before.
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MARA Holdings Appoints Nancy Novak to Its Board
MARA Holdings named data center veteran Nancy Novak an independent director effective August 1, 2026, as the Bitcoin miner builds out its energy and infrastructure strategy.
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Core Scientific Appoints Mark Adams to Its Board
Core Scientific named Mark Adams a director on July 29, 2026, expanding its board to seven seats with a technology executive who spent six years running Penguin Solutions.
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ProCap Financial Elects Benjamin Buchanan Independent Director
ProCap Financial named Benjamin Buchanan an independent director effective July 15, 2026, restoring its audit committee to three members under Nasdaq rules.
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Galaxy Digital Names Steven Bandrowczak to Its Board
Galaxy Digital appointed former Xerox chief executive Steven Bandrowczak an independent director and Audit Committee member on July 13, 2026, adding three decades of enterprise technology leadership to its board.
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Andre Cronje Resigns From the Sonic Labs Board
Sonic Labs announced on June 19, 2026, that Andre Cronje would resign from its board with two other longtime directors.
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Michael Kong Resigns From Sonic Labs Board
Michael Kong left the Sonic Labs board on June 19, 2026, eight years after joining Fantom, as Crowdfund Insider reported the S token down 97 percent from its all-time high.
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pcaversaccio Joins the Ethereum Foundation Board After 54 Job Cuts
Hsiao-Wei Wang left on June 18, 2026, the Ethereum Foundation cut 54 jobs on June 23, and pcaversaccio joined its board on July 29.
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Hut 8 Names E. Stanley O'Neal Board Chair
Hut 8 named E. Stanley O'Neal chair of its board on June 11, 2026, succeeding founding chair William Tai, who had held the role since November 2023.
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Backpack US Appoints Michael Piwowar to Its Board
Backpack US announced on June 9, 2026, that it had appointed former SEC Commissioner and Acting Chairman Michael Piwowar to its board of directors as the exchange expands its regulated U.S. business.
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Twenty One Capital Appoints Paul Lalljie Independent Director
Twenty One Capital named Paul S. Lalljie an independent director and audit committee member on June 8, 2026, filling a seat SoftBank's departing representative had left vacant.
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Copper Names John Meserve to Its Board
Copper added former Bank of New York executive John Meserve as a director on April 10, 2026, succeeding Jim Turley on its audit, risk and compliance committee.
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Copper Names Mike Kuehnel Chairman
Copper named former Flow Traders CEO Mike Kuehnel chairman on April 10, 2026, succeeding Lord Hammond as the digital asset custody firm pushed deeper into the United States.
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Lord Hammond Steps Down as Copper Chairman
Lord Hammond stepped down as Copper's chairman on April 10, 2026, three years after joining the digital asset custody firm's board, handing the role to former Flow Traders CEO Mike Kuehnel.
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Bill Barhydt Chairs the Algorand Foundation's New Delaware Board
The Algorand Foundation moved its headquarters from Singapore to Delaware and seated four outside directors on January 14, 2026.
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Animoca Brands Appoints John Madden to Board of Directors
Animoca Brands said on December 15, 2025, that John Madden, its company secretary since 2019, had become a director on December 10, a day before director David Brickler resigned.
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David Brickler Resigns From Animoca Brands Board
Director David Brickler resigned from Animoca Brands' board effective December 11, 2025, one day after John Madden's appointment took effect, the company announced on December 15, 2025.
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BitMine Immersion Names Jason Edgeworth Independent Director
BitMine Immersion Technologies seated JPD Family Holdings asset manager Jason Edgeworth as an independent director on Nov. 14, 2025, the same day it named Chi Tsang chief executive.
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BitMine Immersion Names Olivia Howe Independent Director
BitMine Immersion Technologies seated RigUp chief legal officer Olivia Howe as an independent director on Nov. 14, 2025, the same day it named Chi Tsang chief executive.
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BitMine Immersion Names Robert Sechan Independent Director
BitMine Immersion Technologies seated Robert Sechan, founder of NewEdge Capital Group, as an independent director on Nov. 14, 2025, the same day the firm named Chi Tsang chief executive.
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BitMine Names Chi Tsang Chief Executive
BitMine Immersion Technologies named Chi Tsang CEO on Nov. 14, 2025, replacing Jonathan Bates as the firm pushed its Ethereum treasury past 2.9 percent of the token's supply.
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0G Foundation Appoints Jonathan Chang to Its Board
0G Foundation named Dr. Jonathan Chang a director on September 30, 2025, after 0G announced the launch of Aristotle Mainnet, its decentralized AI network, to advance policy ties for the project.
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Bakkt Appoints Mike Alfred to Its Board of Directors
Bakkt named fintech investor Mike Alfred to its board on Sept. 22, 2025, as the company leaned into digital asset trading, stablecoin payments and Bitcoin.
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Strive Names Pierre Rochard to Its Board of Directors
Pierre Rochard, CEO of The Bitcoin Bond Company, joined Strive's board on September 15, 2025, as the newly public company disclosed a $750 million raise and 69 Bitcoin in initial holdings.
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Grayscale Founder Barry Silbert Returns as Board Chairman
Grayscale Investments returned founder Barry Silbert to its board as chairman on Aug. 4, 2025, replacing Mark Shifke as the firm expanded its management team ahead of a planned public listing.
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Circle Appoints Adam Selipsky to Its Board
Circle Internet Group named former Amazon Web Services chief executive Adam Selipsky to its board of directors on July 22, 2025, expanding the board to nine members.
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eToro Appoints Laura Unger to Its Board of Directors
eToro Group Ltd. named former SEC commissioner Laura Unger to its board of directors on July 3, 2025, alongside Wix chief financial officer Lior Shemesh.
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Sandeep Nailwal Becomes the Polygon Foundation's First CEO
Mihailo Bjelic left the Polygon Foundation board on May 23, 2025, and Sandeep Nailwal became its first CEO on June 11.
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Core Scientific Appoints Elizabeth Crain to Its Board
Core Scientific named Moelis & Company co-founder Elizabeth Crain to its board of directors on May 16, 2025, putting her in the chair of its audit committee.
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Jarrod Patten Leaves Core Scientific's Board
Jarrod Patten gave up the chairman's seat on Core Scientific's board on May 16, 2025, after skipping reelection at the company's annual meeting.
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Core Scientific Board Member Todd Becker Steps Down
Todd Becker left Core Scientific's board of directors effective immediately on May 13, 2025, ending a term in which he chaired the audit committee through two capital raises.
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Riot Platforms Director Hannah Cho Retires From Its Board
Riot Platforms director Hannah Cho retired from its board on Feb. 12, 2025, the same filing in which the Bitcoin miner added three directors with data center and real estate backgrounds.
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Riot Platforms Director Hubert Marleau Retires From Its Board
Riot Platforms director Hubert Marleau retired from its board on Feb. 12, 2025, as two activist investors pushed the Bitcoin miner to pursue AI and high-performance computing deals.
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Riot Platforms Names Doug Mouton to Its Board
Riot Platforms appointed former Meta and Microsoft data center executive Doug Mouton to its board of directors on Feb. 12, 2025, as part of a pivot toward AI and high-performance computing.
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Riot Platforms Names Jaime Leverton to Its Board
Riot Platforms appointed former Hut 8 chief executive Jaime Leverton to its board of directors on Feb. 12, 2025, alongside two other new directors, as part of its pivot toward AI and high-performance computing.
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Riot Platforms Names Michael Turner to Its Board
Riot Platforms appointed former Oxford Properties Group president Michael Turner to its board of directors on Feb. 12, 2025, as it lined up advisers for a shift toward AI and high-performance computing.
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Block Names Afterpay's Anthony Eisen to Its Board
Block appointed Afterpay co-founder Anthony Eisen to its board of directors on February 6, 2025, growing the board to ten members and seating a founder of the business it bought in 2022.
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Interchain Foundation's Ethan Buchman Resigns From Foundation Council
Cosmos co-founder Ethan Buchman stepped down from the Interchain Foundation's Foundation Council on December 10, 2024, as the foundation acquired Skip, and he formally confirmed the resignation in a February 19, 2025 letter.
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Bitfarms Adds CEO Ben Gagnon to Its Board
Bitfarms put chief executive Ben Gagnon on its board of directors on August 13, 2024, the same day chairman Nicolas Bonta stepped down in the middle of Riot Platforms' hostile takeover push.
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Bitfarms Founder Nicolas Bonta Steps Down From the Board
Bitfarms founder and chairman Nicolas Bonta stepped down from the company's board on August 13, 2024, as Riot Platforms pressed a hostile bid to replace its directors.
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Chris Lehane Joins Coinbase Board of Directors
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong named Chris Lehane, Paul Clement and Christa Davies to the company's board on July 25, 2024, pairing an OpenAI policy executive with a former U.S. Solicitor General.
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Paxos Adds J. Christopher Giancarlo to Its Board
Paxos announced on May 14, 2024, that it had added J. Christopher Giancarlo, the former Commodity Futures Trading Commission chairman known as CryptoDad, to its board of directors.
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Katie Haun Leaves Coinbase's Board After Seven Years
Katie Haun announced on April 20, 2024 that she would step off Coinbase's board after more than seven years, the end of her third term, so she could focus on her venture firm Haun Ventures.
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R3 Appoints UK Finance Chairman Bob Wigley to Its Board
Bob Wigley, chairman of the UK Finance trade body, joined the board of enterprise blockchain firm R3 as an outside director, R3 announced on February 22, 2024, after a tokenization taskforce he led published its own report the year before.
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Hedera Council Names Charles Adkins President
The Hedera Council appointed Charles Adkins president on December 13, 2023, bringing in an executive with prior roles at Aptos, Polygon Labs and the U.S. Treasury Department.
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CZ Steps Down as Binance.US Board Chairman
Changpeng Zhao stepped down as chairman of Binance.US's board of directors on Nov. 28, 2023, days after settling criminal charges with the U.S. Justice Department over Binance's global exchange.
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Ripple Appoints Warren Jenson to Its Board of Directors
Ripple named former Nielsen CFO Warren Jenson to its board on May 19, 2023, and made him chair of the audit committee overseeing the firm's financial reporting.
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Stellar Development Foundation Names Asiff Hirji to Its Board
The Stellar Development Foundation appointed MoonPay president Asiff Hirji to its board of directors on March 9, 2023, adding a former Coinbase president and chief operating officer to the nonprofit's governance.
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Anchorage Digital Bank Adds Julie Williams to Its Board
Anchorage Digital Bank named Julie L. Williams, twice the acting head of the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, to its board on Feb. 28, 2023, her first seat on a privately held company's board.
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Sarah Gow Resigns From Argo Blockchain Board
Sarah Gow stepped down from Argo Blockchain's board on Feb. 9, 2023, the same day CEO Peter Wall's resignation became public and eight days after CFO Alex Appleton's, as the Bitcoin miner faced a shareholder lawsuit.
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Robinhood Welcomes Meyer Malka to Its Board of Directors
Robinhood Markets added Ribbit Capital founder Meyer "Micky" Malka, an early investor in the brokerage, to its board on March 23, 2022.
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Ripple Appoints Michael Warren to Board of Directors
Ripple named Michael Warren, a former Obama White House senior adviser, to its board of directors on March 16, 2022, as the company kept adding Washington veterans while it fought the SEC.
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Chris Giancarlo Joins Digital Asset's Board
Digital Asset named former CFTC chairman Chris Giancarlo to its board of directors on Jan. 25, 2022, the year before its Canton Network blockchain began trading real-world assets for banks.
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Rain Management Names Talal Al Zain to Its Board
Talal Al Zain, the former chief executive of Bahrain's sovereign wealth fund, joined the board of crypto exchange Rain Management on December 29, 2021, four years after four co-founders launched the company.
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Circle Names Danita Ostling to Board, Audit Chair
Circle Internet Financial appointed retired EY partner Danita Ostling to its board of directors and named her chair of the audit committee on Oct. 21, 2021.
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Bit Digital Appoints Brock Pierce to Board of Directors
Bit Digital named Bitcoin Foundation chairman Brock Pierce to its board on Sept. 28, 2021, effective Oct. 31, 2021, and shareholders reelected him nearly five years later.
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BlockFi Names Ellen-Blair Chube to Board
BlockFi announced on September 1, 2021, that William Blair managing director Ellen-Blair Chube had joined its board of directors, taking the seat left by former CFTC chairman Christopher Giancarlo.
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Christopher Giancarlo Steps Down From BlockFi Board
BlockFi said on September 1, 2021, that former CFTC chairman Christopher Giancarlo was leaving its board after four months, replaced by William Blair executive Ellen-Blair Chube.
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Fireblocks Adds Former SEC Chair Jay Clayton to Advisory Board
Fireblocks named Jay Clayton to its seven-member advisory board on Aug. 19, 2021, a month after the custody firm raised $310 million at a $2 billion valuation.
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Jillian MacNab Succeeds Nathan Kaiser as Cardano Foundation Chairperson
A Swiss financial lawyer took the Cardano Foundation Council's chair on June 9, 2021, and by Sept. 8 the members who preceded her had recruited their own successors.
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Rosie Rios Joins Ripple's Board as Kristina Campbell Becomes CFO
Ripple named Rosie Rios to its board and Kristina Campbell as chief financial officer on May 4, 2021, five months into a Securities and Exchange Commission lawsuit over XRP.
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Galaxy Digital Names Michael Daffey Chair of the Board
Galaxy Digital named former Goldman Sachs Global Markets chairman Michael Daffey as senior advisor and chair of its board on April 16, 2021, ahead of a planned U.S. stock listing.
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Stripe Welcomes Mark Carney to Its Board of Directors
Stripe added Mark Carney, the former Governor of the Bank of England and the Bank of Canada, to its board of directors on Feb. 21, 2021, citing his experience in sustainable finance.
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Coinbase Adds Ex-Cisco CFO Kelly Kramer to Its Board
Coinbase named Kelly Kramer, who spent nine years at Cisco and rose to chief financial officer there, to its board of directors on Dec. 16, 2020, putting her in charge of the Audit and Compliance Committee four months before the exchange's own public listing.
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Canaan Names Wenjun Zhang Independent Director
Wenjun Zhang and three other new independent directors joined Canaan Inc.'s board effective August 1, 2020, The Block reported on August 3, a day before Canaan's own release, replacing three directors whose terms had expired.
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Hubertus Thonhauser Takes the Tezos Foundation Chair From Ryan Jesperson
The Tezos Foundation announced on May 18, 2020 that its president would leave the Council and Hubertus Thonhauser would chair it.
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IOTA Co-Founder Sergey Ivancheglo Resigns From the Board
Sergey Ivancheglo submitted his resignation from the IOTA Foundation board on June 26, 2019, a move co-founder David Sønstebø made public on July 26, 2019, after Ivancheglo said he worked best in a less rigid setting.
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Ripple Names SBI's Yoshitaka Kitao to Its Board
Ripple announced on April 26, 2019, that Yoshitaka Kitao, chief executive of its Japanese partner SBI Holdings, would join its board of directors, replacing SBI Ripple Asia's own chief executive in the seat.
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Quant Network Adds Guy Dietrich to Its Board
Quant Network named Rockefeller Capital managing director Guy Dietrich to its board on April 10, 2019, the day it said it would expand into the US market.
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Digital Asset Adds AG Gangadhar to Its Board
Digital Asset named former Google and Amazon engineering executive AG Gangadhar to its board on July 18, 2018, five months before the board made him acting chief executive.
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Digital Asset Adds Stephan Leithner to Its Board
Digital Asset named Deutsche Börse Group executive board member Stephan Leithner to its board of directors on July 18, 2018, pairing Deutsche Börse's post-trade expertise with the company's ledger technology.
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Digital Asset Adds Tony James to Its Board
Digital Asset named Blackstone's Tony James to its board of directors on July 18, 2018, alongside two other new directors, as the DAML developer pushed to scale its ledger technology for banks.
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BitPay Elects Carl Stern to Its Board of Directors
BitPay announced on January 31, 2017, that Carl Stern, a former Boston Consulting Group chief executive, had joined its board as the payments company prepared for growth that year.
