Exits and Removals
Markets & VenuesExits and Removals
Coinbase Chief Accounting Officer Jennifer Jones Plans to Retire
Jennifer Jones told Coinbase on Sept. 29, 2026 that she will retire as chief accounting officer, and the company disclosed her decision in a Form 8-K filed Oct. 2, 2026.
Payments & ConsumerExits and Removals
Circle's CFO Jeremy Fox-Geen to Step Down
Circle Internet Group said Chief Financial Officer Jeremy Fox-Geen will step down after more than five years in the role, staying through December 2026 to help find a successor.
Payments & ConsumerCEO Changes
Bridge Co-Founder Zach Abrams Departs Stripe
Zach Abrams announced on X on September 24, 2026 that he was leaving Stripe to run Open Standard full time, six days before its OUSD stablecoin launched with $1 billion in committed liquidity.
Markets & VenuesCEO Changes
Bitpanda CEO Enzersdorfer-Konrad to Step Down in 2027
Lukas Enzersdorfer-Konrad told Bitpanda's board on September 15, 2026, that he intends to step down as chief executive in the first quarter of 2027, with co-founder Christian Trummer becoming co-CEO alongside him immediately.
ProtocolsCEO Changes
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.
ProtocolsExits and Removals
Ava Labs' John Wu Steps Down as President
John Wu moved himself from president to senior advisor at Ava Labs on Aug. 18, 2026, handing the title to Charley Cooper after seven years building the company from ten Cornellians in Brooklyn.
ProtocolsExecutive Hires
John Wu Hands the Ava Labs Presidency to Charley Cooper
Ava Labs' John Wu appointed Charley Cooper president on Aug. 18, 2026, moved himself to senior advisor, and named interim CFO Lydia Chiu to the role on a permanent basis.
Markets & VenuesExits and Removals
Karen Alexander Departs as Bakkt Chief Financial Officer
Bakkt said Aug. 17, 2026, that Karen Alexander had transitioned out of the CFO role effective Aug. 14, replaced by CoreCard veteran Matt White as the company pushes into stablecoin infrastructure.
Markets & VenuesExits and Removals
American Bitcoin President Matt Prusak Departs for Giga Energy
American Bitcoin disclosed in a filing on Aug. 3, 2026, that Matt Prusak would step down as president and interim chief financial officer the next day to become Giga Energy's chief business officer.
Markets & VenuesExits and Removals
Coinbase's Lawrence Brock Steps Down as People Chief
Lawrence Brock told Coinbase on July 22, 2026 that he would step down as chief people officer, effective Aug. 17, 2026, weeks after leading a restructuring that cut about 700 jobs.
Markets & VenuesCEO Changes
Jack Mallers Steps Down as Twenty One Capital CEO
Twenty One Capital named Raphael Zagury chief executive effective July 20, 2026, after Jack Mallers stepped down and Tether's plan to merge Twenty One with his company Strike fell apart.
ProtocolsExits and Removals
1inch Confirms Co-Founder Anton Bukov's Exit From Operations
1inch confirmed on July 16, 2026, that co-founder Anton Bukov had stopped contributing to the project since December 2025, after Bukov said on X that he had been fired in late November 2025.
Markets & VenuesExits and Removals
Coinbase's Paul Grewal Steps Down as Chief Legal Officer
Paul Grewal told Coinbase on July 8, 2026 that he would step down as chief legal officer and secretary, effective July 31, 2026, closing a six-year tenure that ran through the company's fight with the SEC.
Markets & VenuesExits and Removals
Grayscale's Chief Financial Officer Edward McGee Steps Down
Grayscale said Edward McGee left his chief financial officer role on July 2, 2026, for personal reasons, splitting the job between two senior finance executives on an interim basis.
ProtocolsBoard Seats
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.
ProtocolsCEO Changes
Amir Haleem Steps Down as Helium CEO
Nova Labs, the company behind Helium, said on June 4, 2026, that founder Amir Haleem would move to chairman while Mario Di Dio takes over as chief executive.
ProtocolsCEO Changes
Ian De Bode Succeeds Nathan Allman at Ondo Finance
Ondo Finance named its president CEO in the post that announced founder Nathan Allman's death on May 25, 2026.
ProtocolsExits and Removals
MetaMask Co-Founder Dan Finlay Leaves Consensys
Dan Finlay announced on X that April 22, 2026, was his last day at Consensys, ending more than ten years building MetaMask and citing burnout and family time.
Markets & VenuesCEO Changes
Trump Media Replaces Devin Nunes as Chief Executive
Trump Media replaced Devin Nunes as chief executive on April 21, 2026.
Payments & ConsumerCEO Changes
Greg Solano Steps Down as Yuga Labs CEO
Greg Solano told followers on April 16, 2026, that he was moving into the role of chairman of the board at Yuga Labs after about two years as chief executive, handing the job to Michael Figge.
ProtocolsExits and Removals
Oren Katz Leaves StarkWare as It Splits Into Two Units
Oren Katz, StarkWare's chief operating officer, resigned on April 13, 2026, the day CEO Eli Ben-Sasson told staff the company would cut jobs and split into two business units.
Markets & VenuesExits and Removals
Blake Janover Departs as DeFi Development Corp's Commercial Chief
DeFi Development Corp. and Blake Janover signed a separation agreement effective March 31, 2026, ending his run as chief commercial officer while he keeps his board seat and a $692,500 payment.
ProtocolsCEO Changes
Ajit Tripathi Takes Over the Eigen Foundation From Robert Drost
The Eigen Foundation named Tripathi executive director on March 13, 2026 and moved founding director Drost to senior adviser.
Payments & ConsumerExits and Removals
Tether Investment Chief Richard Heathcote Steps Down
Richard Heathcote stepped down as Tether's chief investment officer on March 12, 2026, moving into an advisory role as deputy Zachary Lyons took over the position.
Markets & VenuesCEO Changes
Bybit Co-CEO Helen Liu to Depart the Exchange
Bybit announced on March 7, 2026, that Co-CEO Helen Liu would leave the exchange on April 30, 2026, after five years in roles spanning human resources to the top office.
ProtocolsExecutive Hires
Bruno Martins Replaces Nik Bougalis as Algorand's CTO Before Layoffs
The Algorand Foundation named Bruno Martins acting CTO on March 1, 2026, cut a quarter of its staff on March 18, and absorbed Algorand Technologies on March 19.
Markets & VenuesExits and Removals
Gemini Parts Ways With CFO Dan Chen
Gemini removed Dan Chen as chief financial officer effective Feb. 17, 2026, in a filing that also ousted its chief operating officer and chief legal officer.
Markets & VenuesExits and Removals
Gemini Parts Ways With Chief Legal Officer Tyler Meade
Gemini removed Tyler Meade as chief legal officer effective Feb. 17, 2026, 12 days after it said it would exit the UK, EU and Australian exchange markets, and named Kate Freedman interim general counsel.
Markets & VenuesExits and Removals
Gemini Parts Ways With COO Marshall Beard
Gemini disclosed in a regulatory filing that chief operating officer Marshall Beard was leaving effective immediately, CoinDesk reported on February 17, 2026, days after the exchange cut a quarter of its staff.
ProtocolsCEO Changes
Bastian Aue Replaces Tomasz Stańczak as Ethereum Foundation Co-Director
Tomasz Stańczak announced on February 13, 2026 that he would leave his Ethereum Foundation co-executive director post at the end of the month, and the Foundation's board named Bastian Aue interim co-executive director the same day.
ProtocolsCEO Changes
Const and ShibShib Give Up Opentensor's Two Top Titles
Bittensor's two co-founders left the CEO and COO jobs at the Opentensor Foundation on Feb. 12, 2026, and a subnet team later accused Const of keeping the control that came with them.
Payments & ConsumerCEO Changes
Felix Fan Succeeds Eowyn Chen as Trust Wallet CEO
Trust Wallet's chief executive handover came 49 days after a poisoned Chrome extension drained 2,520 wallets, and the successor ran product at OKX.
Markets & VenuesExecutive Hires
Justin Wales Replaces Nick Lundgren as Crypto.com's Chief Legal Officer
Crypto.com named Justin Wales chief legal officer on April 16, 2026, the day Nick Lundgren resigned and a court heard its Nevada appeal, 28 days after a 12 percent staff cut.
ProtocolsExits and Removals
Luigi D'Onorio DeMeo Steps Down as Ava Labs Strategy Chief
Luigi D'Onorio DeMeo posted his exit as Ava Labs chief strategy officer on Jan. 15, 2026, after nearly five years, and said he will finish his term on the Avalanche Foundation board.
ProtocolsCEO Changes
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.
Markets & VenuesExits and Removals
Riot Platforms' Colin Yee to Step Down as CFO
Riot Platforms announced on January 2, 2026, that Jason Chung would replace Colin Yee as chief financial officer effective March 1, 2026, as the bitcoin miner leans further into AI data centers.
Markets & VenuesCEO Changes
Rob Phythian Steps Down as SharpLink Co-Chief Executive
SharpLink Gaming said on December 17, 2025, that Rob Phythian had stepped down as co-chief executive and director and that its board had made Joseph Chalom sole chief executive officer, effective December 15, completing a planned transition.
ProtocolsExits and Removals
Sushi Labs Managing Director Jared Grey Steps Down
Jared Grey announced on Dec. 1, 2025 that he would step down as Sushi's Head Chef and Sushi Labs managing director for an advisory role, as Synthesis founder Alex McCurry took over and invested in the protocol.
ProtocolsCEO Changes
Sushi Names Alex McCurry Chief Executive
PANews reported on December 1, 2025, that Jared Grey would step down as Sushi's top leader, and PR Newswire carried Sushi's own announcement that Alex McCurry had joined as chief executive on December 16, 2025.
Markets & VenuesCEO Changes
BitMine CEO Jonathan Bates Departs
Jonathan Bates left BitMine Immersion Technologies as chief executive on Nov. 14, 2025, the same day the company named Chi Tsang to replace him.
Markets & VenuesCEO Changes
Bitpanda's Eric Demuth Steps Down as CEO for Executive Chairman
Eric Demuth handed Bitpanda's chief executive title to Lukas Enzersdorfer-Konrad on November 3, 2025, after more than a decade as co-CEO, and moved into the role of Executive Chairman and President of the Board.
Markets & VenuesExits and Removals
Cipher Mining's Edward Farrell Retires as Chief Financial Officer
Cipher Mining Inc. announced on October 6, 2025, that Edward Farrell, its first chief financial officer, would retire effective October 14, 2025, and move into a senior advisor role.
Payments & ConsumerExecutive Hires
David Schwartz Hands the Ripple CTO Job to Dennis Jarosch
David Schwartz, Ripple's chief technology officer since 2018, told the XRP community on September 30, 2025 that he would step back at the end of the year, and Ripple's senior vice president of engineering, Dennis Jarosch, would take the title.
ProtocolsCEO Changes
Mitchell Demeter Runs Sonic Labs for 145 Days
Sonic Labs named Mitchell Demeter CEO on Sept. 28, 2025, when Michael Kong became chief information officer.
Markets & VenuesExits and Removals
IREN's Belinda Nucifora Departs as Chief Financial Officer
Belinda Nucifora left as IREN's chief financial officer on September 8, 2025, after 3.5 years in the role, and the company credited her with its transition to U.S. GAAP reporting.
Payments & ConsumerCEO Changes
Robby Yung Takes The Sandbox From Its Co-Founders
Animoca Brands' investments chief became CEO of The Sandbox on Aug. 28, 2025, with both co-founders moved out of executive roles.
Markets & VenuesCEO Changes
Wayne Huo Steps Down as Amber International CEO
Wayne Huo left the chief executive seat at Amber International on August 21, 2025, when the board replaced him with chairman Michael Wu and thanked him in a single sentence for his tenure.
Payments & ConsumerCEO Changes
TM Lee Steps Down as CoinGecko's Chief Executive Officer
CoinGecko co-founder TM Lee moved from chief executive officer to a new president role on August 18, 2025, handing the top job to his fellow co-founder Bobby Ong.
ProtocolsCEO Changes
Gavin Wood Takes Parity Technologies Back From Björn Wagner
Parity's co-founder announced on Aug. 13, 2025 that he would resume the CEO role in late August, and a year later the Polkadot treasury spends $7.4 million a quarter.
Markets & VenuesCEO Changes
CleanSpark's Zachary Bradford Resigns as Chief Executive
Zachary Bradford resigned as CleanSpark's officer and director on August 11, 2025, ending nearly six years as chief executive of the Nasdaq-listed bitcoin miner.
Markets & VenuesExits and Removals
Galaxy's General Counsel Andrew Siegel Departs the Company
Galaxy said on August 11, 2025, that Andrew Siegel, its general counsel since 2017, was leaving, and named former Cognizant executive Matt Friedrich chief legal officer in his place.
Markets & VenuesExits and Removals
BlackRock's Joseph Chalom Departs for SharpLink
Joseph Chalom left a 20-year career at BlackRock on July 25, 2025 to become co-chief executive of SharpLink Gaming, a company that holds Ether as its treasury asset.
ProtocolsCEO Changes
SY Lee Rebuilds Story Protocol's Leadership Around AI Data
Within 30 days in 2025, Story Protocol lost co-founder Jason Zhao and gave SY Lee, Andrea Muttoni and Sandeep Chinchali the top seats, a reset aimed at AI training data.
ProtocolsExits and Removals
Mary-Catherine Lader Quits as Uniswap Labs' President and COO
Mary-Catherine Lader, Uniswap Labs' first chief operating officer, left the role on July 15, 2025, after four years.
ProtocolsCEO Changes
Torab Torabi Takes Movement After a $38 Million Token Dump
Torab Torabi became chief executive of Move Industries on May 7, 2025, a week after CoinDesk's token-dump report, and the dispute over who answers for the launch has since reached Delaware's courts.
Markets & VenuesExits and Removals
Bruce Rosenbloom Steps Down as DeFi Development Corp's CFO
DeFi Development Corp. disclosed on April 23, 2025, that Bruce Rosenbloom had stepped down as chief financial officer effective April 17, six days earlier, and named John Han as his successor.
Markets & VenuesCEO Changes
Blake Janover Departs as DeFi Development Corp's CEO
Blake Janover stopped being chief executive of Janover Inc., the company he founded, on April 7, 2025, when former Kraken executives bought majority ownership and named Joseph Onorati chairman and CEO.
Rules & RiskCEO Changes
Kristin Smith Steps Down as Blockchain Association CEO
Kristin Smith told followers on April 1, 2025 that she would leave the Blockchain Association on May 16 for the top job at the Solana Policy Institute.
Markets & VenuesExits and Removals
OKX Chief Legal Officer Mauricio Beugelmans Leaves the Exchange
OKX announced on April 1, 2025, that chief legal officer Mauricio Beugelmans had left and that Linda Lacewell would succeed him, weeks after the exchange paid over $500 million to settle with the U.S. Department of Justice.
Rules & RiskCEO Changes
Digital Chamber Founder Perianne Boring Steps Down as CEO
Perianne Boring stepped down as chief executive of the Digital Chamber on March 19, 2025, after more than a decade running the group she founded, moving into the chair of its board as Cody Carbone took over.
ProtocolsExits and Removals
Jack Gavigan Steps Down as Zcash Foundation Executive Director
Jack Gavigan stepped down as Zcash Foundation executive director on March 4, 2025, after four years in the role, handing interim leadership to Chief Operating Officer Alex Bornstein.
ProtocolsCEO Changes
Aya Miyaguchi Hands the Ethereum Foundation to Two Co-Directors
Aya Miyaguchi moved from executive director to president on Feb. 25, 2025, two co-directors took over on March 1.
Markets & VenuesExits and Removals
KuCoin Co-Founder Eric Tang Steps Down From Every Role
Eric Tang left every role at KuCoin on January 27, 2025, as part of a settlement in which the exchange agreed to pay nearly $300 million and co-founder Michael Gan also stepped down.
Markets & VenuesExits and Removals
KuCoin Founder Michael Gan Steps Down From Every Role
Michael Gan stepped down from every role at KuCoin on January 27, 2025, as part of a deferred prosecution agreement that resolved a U.S. Justice Department case against him.
Markets & VenuesCEO Changes
Argo Blockchain CEO Thomas Chippas to Step Down
Argo Blockchain announced on January 21, 2025, that Thomas Chippas would step down as chief executive effective February 28, with chief financial officer Jim MacCallum named interim CEO while the board searched for a successor.
Markets & VenuesCEO Changes
BC Wong Succeeds Johnny Lyu as KuCoin CEO
KuCoin's chief legal officer became CEO on Jan. 20, 2025.
Markets & VenuesExits and Removals
Kraken Chief Legal Officer Marco Santori Steps Down
Marco Santori announced on Jan. 15, 2025, that he was leaving Kraken's chief legal officer post after almost five years, moving into an advisory role as the exchange prepared to name his successor.
ProtocolsCEO Changes
Manuel Stotz Replaces Steve Yun as TON Foundation President
The TON Foundation named Kingsway Capital founder Manuel Stotz its president on Jan. 14, 2025.
ProtocolsCEO Changes
Avery Ching Succeeds Mo Shaikh as Aptos Labs CEO
Aptos Labs' chief technology officer became its chief executive on Dec. 19, 2024, the day co-founder Mo Shaikh stepped down, and a crypto outlet has since pressed the case that the exit came at a convenient time.
Markets & VenuesExits and Removals
Galaxy Digital's Alex Ioffe Steps Down as CFO
Galaxy Digital named former Point72 finance chief Tony Paquette its new chief financial officer on December 13, 2024, with Alex Ioffe transitioning into a senior advisor role after nearly four years in the seat.
Rules & RiskCEO Changes
Sheila Warren Steps Down as Crypto Council for Innovation CEO
Sheila Warren told the Crypto Council for Innovation she would leave as CEO effective Jan. 6, 2025, after close to three years leading the Washington crypto lobbying group.
ProtocolsBoard Seats
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.
ProtocolsCEO Changes
Chainalysis Co-Founder Michael Gronager Steps Down as CEO
Chainalysis named co-founder Jonathan Levin chief executive officer on December 5, 2024, after Michael Gronager, the company's other co-founder, agreed with the board to step down from the role and the board itself.
Markets & VenuesExits and Removals
HashKey Group Chief Operating Officer Livio Weng Resigns
Livio Weng resigned as HashKey Group's chief operating officer and HashKey Exchange's chief executive officer, the company said on December 5, 2024, citing personal family reasons and a transition plan it had reported to Hong Kong's securities regulator in advance.
Markets & VenuesCEO Changes
GSR Co-Founder Rich Rosenblum Steps Down as Co-CEO
Rich Rosenblum left his co-CEO post at GSR on October 23, 2024, four months after taking it, to pursue new ventures, and GSR said chief technology officer John MacDonald would also leave the firm.
Markets & VenuesCEO Changes
Copper Founder Dmitry Tokarev Steps Down as Chief Executive
Dmitry Tokarev stepped back from the chief executive role at Copper on October 14, 2024, after seven years, staying on as the board's founder director.
Markets & VenuesExits and Removals
Core Scientific CFO Denise Sterling to Step Down
Core Scientific announced on Sept. 6, 2024, that chief financial officer Denise Sterling would step down effective May 1, 2025, after leading the company's finances through its bankruptcy exit.
ProtocolsCEO Changes
Jayson Hobby Steps Down as Compound Labs Chief Executive
Jayson Hobby posted on X on July 10, 2024, that he was stepping down as Compound Labs' chief executive, and Bitget reported two days later that he had founded a new DeFi protocol called Legend.
Markets & VenuesCEO Changes
GSR's Jakob Palmstierna Steps Down as CEO, Becomes President
Jakob Palmstierna gave up the chief executive job at GSR on June 26, 2024, after two and a half years in the role, moving to president as Xin Song and Rich Rosenblum took over as co-CEOs.
Markets & VenuesExits and Removals
Kanav Kariya Departs as Jump Crypto President
Kanav Kariya announced his exit from Jump Crypto on X on June 24, 2024, days after Fortune reported a Commodity Futures Trading Commission investigation into Jump Trading's crypto dealings.
ProtocolsExits and Removals
Uniswap Labs Chief Legal Officer Marvin Ammori Hands Off Role
Marvin Ammori announced on June 10, 2024, that he was handing the Uniswap Labs chief legal officer post to Katherine Minarik, a former Coinbase deputy general counsel, as the firm faced a possible SEC lawsuit.
Payments & ConsumerExits and Removals
SoFi's Rob Lavet Retires as Chief Legal Officer
Rob Lavet retired as SoFi's chief legal officer on June 3, 2024, after 12 years building the company's legal department, and moved into an advisory role.
Markets & VenuesExits and Removals
Bullish's Steve Ellis Steps Down as CFO
Bullish chief executive Tom Farley announced on May 28, 2024, that Steve Ellis had stepped down as chief financial officer, with David Bonanno succeeding him in the role.
Markets & VenuesCEO Changes
Gracy Chen Succeeds Sandra Lou as Bitget CEO
Bitget's managing director became CEO on May 21, 2024, when Sandra Lou left.
Markets & VenuesCEO Changes
Grayscale CEO Michael Sonnenshein Steps Down
Grayscale announced on May 20, 2024, that Michael Sonnenshein was leaving the chief executive job after guiding the firm through its spot Bitcoin ETF conversion, with Goldman Sachs veteran Peter Mintzberg set to replace him.
Payments & ConsumerExits and Removals
Gala Games Blockchain President Jason Brink Steps Down
Jason Brink resigned as Gala Games' president of blockchain on May 17, 2024, after four years at the company, and formed an outside group called LFG to keep working on its GalaChain infrastructure.
Markets & VenuesCEO Changes
Bitfarms Fires CEO Geoffrey Morphy After He Sues the Company
Bitfarms fired President and CEO Geoffrey Morphy effective immediately on May 13, 2024, three days after he filed a $27 million breach-of-contract lawsuit against the company.
ProtocolsCEO Changes
Ivo Crnkovic-Rubsamen Leads dYdX Trading for 150 Days
dYdX Trading's operating partner became CEO on May 13, 2024, when founder Antonio Juliano moved to chairman. Juliano resumed the job on Oct. 10.
Markets & VenuesExits and Removals
Robinhood Co-Founder Baiju Bhatt Steps Down as Creative Chief
Baiju Bhatt left his executive role as Robinhood's chief creative officer on March 21, 2024, after more than ten years in leadership, while staying on the company's board.
Markets & VenuesCEO Changes
Gavin Michael Steps Down as Bakkt Chief Executive
Bakkt said March 18, 2024, that Gavin Michael would step down as president and CEO, succeeded by board member Andy Main, as the company fought to ease doubts about its ability to keep operating.
ProtocolsCEO Changes
Zac Prince Leaves BlockFi for Real Estate Startup
BlockFi founder Zac Prince posted on X on March 10, 2024, that he was leaving the bankrupt crypto lender, and CoinDesk reported the next day he had joined a real estate tax startup, Re Cost Seg.
Payments & ConsumerCEO Changes
Yuga Labs CEO Daniel Alegre Departs
Daniel Alegre, the former Activision Blizzard chief operating officer who ran Yuga Labs for about ten months, told employees on February 21, 2024, that co-founder Greg Solano was taking over as chief executive.
Markets & VenuesCEO Changes
Jaime Leverton Departs as Hut 8 Chief Executive
Hut 8 said on February 7, 2024, that Jaime Leverton had departed as chief executive after three years in the job, with president Asher Genoot taking over effective immediately, weeks after a short-seller report targeted the miner.
ProtocolsCEO Changes
Uri Kolodny Steps Down as StarkWare Chief Executive
Uri Kolodny told followers on X on January 11, 2024, that he was stepping down as StarkWare's chief executive to care for a family member, and The Block confirmed the move the same day.
Markets & VenuesExits and Removals
Argo Blockchain's Seif El-Bakly Steps Down as COO
Argo Blockchain said on January 8, 2024, that Seif El-Bakly left his chief operating officer role effective January 5, ten months after his term as interim CEO ended, with operations reporting to chief strategy officer Sebastien Chalus.
ProtocolsCEO Changes
Zooko Wilcox Steps Down as Electric Coin Company CEO
Electric Coin Company's parent board named Josh Swihart chief executive on December 18, 2023, ending Zooko Wilcox's eight years running the firm behind Zcash.
Markets & VenuesCEO Changes
Richard Teng Replaces Changpeng Zhao as Binance Pleads Guilty
Binance named Richard Teng CEO on Nov. 21, 2023, the day Changpeng Zhao stepped down and both pleaded guilty.
Markets & VenuesCEO Changes
CZ Steps Down as Binance Chief Executive
Changpeng Zhao stepped down as Binance CEO on November 21, 2023, naming Richard Teng as his successor the same day he pleaded guilty to U.S. criminal charges.
Markets & VenuesExits and Removals
Fred Ehrsam Steps Down as Paradigm Managing Partner
Paradigm co-founder Fred Ehrsam stepped down as managing partner on October 24, 2023, moving to a general partner role to spend more time on science.
ProtocolsExits and Removals
Polygon Co-Founder Jaynti Kanani Steps Back
Jaynti Kanani told followers on Oct. 4, 2023, that he had quietly left Polygon's day-to-day work about six months earlier, closing out his run as one of the network's three founders.
ProtocolsCEO Changes
Chris Donovan Takes Over NEAR Foundation From Marieke Flament
Chris Donovan, NEAR Foundation's general counsel, became CEO on September 21, 2023, the day Marieke Flament resigned, and held the job 47 days before NEAR co-founder Illia Polosukhin replaced him on November 7, 2023.
Payments & ConsumerExits and Removals
Alyssa Henry Retires as Square CEO, Dorsey Returns
Block told the SEC on September 18, 2023, that Square CEO Alyssa Henry would leave on October 2, handing the merchant business back to co-founder Jack Dorsey after a two-day payment outage that began September 7.
ProtocolsCEO Changes
Chris Amani Replaces Do Kwon as Terraform Labs CEO
Chris Amani became Terraform Labs CEO in March 2023, the news broke July 19.
ProtocolsCEO Changes
Marc Boiron Replaces Ryan Wyatt as Polygon Labs CEO
Polygon Labs promoted its chief legal officer to CEO on July 7, 2023, and by 2026 the company called itself a payments business while a token holder asked what holders own.
Markets & VenuesExits and Removals
Patrick Hillmann Leaves Binance Eight Days Before 1,000 Jobs Go
Patrick Hillmann, Binance's chief strategy officer, announced his exit on July 6, 2023, and CoinDesk reported on July 14 that the exchange had cut more than 1,000 jobs.
ProtocolsCEO Changes
Jayson Hobby Takes Over Compound Labs From Robert Leshner
Compound Labs' VP of Product became CEO on June 28, 2023, the day founder Robert Leshner announced Superstate.
Markets & VenuesCEO Changes
Luno's Marcus Swanepoel Steps Down as Chief Executive
Luno co-founder Marcus Swanepoel moved into an executive chairman role on March 22, 2023, and Chief Operating Officer James Lanigan, with the company for five years, became CEO.
Payments & ConsumerExits and Removals
Joseph DePaolo Steps Down as Signature Bank President
Signature Bank announced on Feb. 16, 2023, that co-founder Joseph J. DePaolo would transition out of the president role into a senior advisor position, with Chief Operating Officer Eric Howell succeeding him.
Markets & VenuesCEO Changes
Argo Blockchain CEO Peter Wall Steps Down
Argo Blockchain announced on February 9, 2023, that Peter Wall was stepping down as chief executive and interim chairman after three years, with chief operating officer Seif El-Bakly named interim CEO.
Payments & ConsumerCEO Changes
PayPal CEO Dan Schulman to Retire at Year-End
PayPal announced on February 9, 2023, that President and CEO Dan Schulman would retire on December 31, 2023, after eight and a half years leading the company since its split from eBay.
Markets & VenuesExits and Removals
Argo Blockchain CFO Alex Appleton Resigns
Alex Appleton resigned as Argo Blockchain's chief financial officer on Feb. 1, 2023, after the Bitcoin miner closed the sale of its Helios mining facility to Galaxy Digital for debt relief.
Markets & VenuesCEO Changes
Bitfarms Co-Founder Emiliano Grodzki Resigns as CEO
Emiliano Grodzki resigned as Bitfarms' chief executive effective immediately on December 29, 2022, staying on as a director while the board promoted COO Geoffrey Morphy in his place.
Payments & ConsumerCEO Changes
Nicole Muniz Steps Down as Yuga Labs CEO
Nicole Muniz told her followers on December 19, 2022, that Daniel Alegre, then president and chief operating officer of the $60 billion gaming company Activision Blizzard, would succeed her as Yuga Labs' chief executive.
Markets & VenuesCEO Changes
Prime Trust's Tom Pageler Is Out as CEO
Prime Trust replaced chief executive Tom Pageler on November 29, 2022, naming board member Jor Law interim CEO the same day, seven months before a Nevada court petition said the custodian held $82.8 million less in fiat than it owed clients.
Markets & VenuesCEO Changes
John J. Ray III Replaces Sam Bankman-Fried at FTX
John J. Ray III became FTX's chief executive at about 4:30 a.m. EST on Nov. 11, 2022 and filed for Chapter 11 that day.
ProtocolsCEO Changes
Björn Wagner Succeeds Gavin Wood as Parity Technologies CEO
Wagner became Parity's CEO on Oct. 21, 2022, the day Gavin Wood gave up the title.
ProtocolsCEO Changes
Matt Dyer Succeeds Ben Livshits as Zilliqa Research's Interim CEO
Zilliqa Research's chief of staff became interim CEO on Oct. 19, 2022.
Markets & VenuesCEO Changes
Chris Ferraro Replaces Alex Mashinsky at Celsius Network
Celsius Network's founder resigned as CEO on Sept. 27, 2022.
Markets & VenuesExits and Removals
Voyager Digital CFO Ashwin Prithipaul Resigns
Voyager Digital said on September 23, 2022, that Chief Financial Officer Ashwin Prithipaul was resigning after four months in the job, with CEO Stephen Ehrlich taking over his duties during the firm's bankruptcy.
Markets & VenuesCEO Changes
Jesse Powell Steps Down as Kraken Chief Executive
Kraken co-founder Jesse Powell announced on September 21, 2022, that chief operating officer Dave Ripley would succeed him as CEO after a yearlong search, with Powell becoming board chairman.
Markets & VenuesExits and Removals
Sam Trabucco Steps Down as Alameda Research Co-CEO
Sam Trabucco announced on X on Aug. 24, 2022 that he was stepping down as Alameda Research co-CEO, leaving Caroline Ellison as the firm's sole chief executive.
Markets & VenuesCEO Changes
Genesis CEO Michael Moro Steps Down as Firm Cuts Staff
Michael Moro stepped down as Genesis chief executive officer on Aug. 17, 2022, the day the firm cut 20 percent of its workforce after losses tied to the collapse of Three Arrows Capital.
Markets & VenuesCEO Changes
Michael Saylor Moves From MicroStrategy CEO to Executive Chairman
MicroStrategy split its chairman and chief executive roles on Aug. 2, 2022, naming Michael Saylor executive chairman and promoting President Phong Le to chief executive.
ProtocolsCEO Changes
Sean Ford Replaces Steven Kokinos as Algorand Inc. Interim CEO
Algorand's chief operating officer became interim CEO on July 27, 2022, when Steven Kokinos left.
ProtocolsCEO Changes
Peng Zhong Leaves Ignite as Layoffs Pass Half the Staff
Ignite's CEO announced his last day on July 1, 2022, the day CoinDesk reported cuts above 50 percent of the Cosmos builder's staff.
Payments & ConsumerExits and Removals
OpenSea Co-Founder Alex Atallah Steps Away From the Company
Alex Atallah told his team on July 1, 2022, that his last day at OpenSea would be July 30, after handing off every function he ran to new leaders since NFTs took off.
Markets & VenuesCEO Changes
Bittrex Global's Stephen Stonberg Steps Down as CEO
Bittrex Global's boards announced on June 27, 2022, that Stephen Stonberg had stepped down as chief executive after 13 months in the job and three years in its leadership, with general counsel Oliver Linch named his successor the same day.
Markets & VenuesExits and Removals
Riot's Jeff McGonegal Retires as Chief Financial Officer
Jeff McGonegal, Riot Blockchain's chief financial officer, announced his retirement on June 1, 2022, after twenty years with the company, with Colin Yee set to succeed him on Aug. 15, 2022.
ProtocolsCEO Changes
Mance Harmon Dissolves His Hedera CEO Job for Swirlds Labs
Hedera Hashgraph, LLC dissolved its CEO and chief scientist roles on April 29, 2022.
Payments & ConsumerExits and Removals
PayPal CFO John Rainey Departs for Walmart
PayPal announced on April 12, 2022, that Chief Financial Officer John Rainey would leave after almost seven years to become Walmart's next CFO, starting June 6, 2022, according to CFO Dive.
Markets & VenuesCEO Changes
SEBA Bank Co-Founder Guido Buehler Steps Down as CEO
Guido Buehler, who co-founded SEBA Bank and ran it for four years, stepped down as chief executive on March 7, 2022, handing the role to Franz Bergmueller effective April 1, 2022.
ProtocolsExits and Removals
Blockstream's Samson Mow Departs as Chief Strategy Officer
Samson Mow left Blockstream on March 1, 2022, after five years as chief strategy officer, saying he would turn to nation-state Bitcoin adoption work instead.
ProtocolsCEO Changes
Sean Lee Steps Down as Algorand Foundation CEO
The Algorand Foundation named Staci Warden chief executive on February 10, 2022, after Sean Lee decided to leave the role he had held for more than 18 months.
ProtocolsExits and Removals
True Names Limited Removes Brantly Millegan as Operations Director
True Names Limited terminated Brantly Millegan's contract as director of operations on February 7, 2022, after ENS DAO delegates voted over the weekend to remove him as a steward over a 2016 tweet.
ProtocolsCEO Changes
Muneeb Ali Steps Down as Hiro Chief Executive Officer
Muneeb Ali stepped down as Hiro's chief executive officer on Feb. 3, 2022, becoming Executive Chairman and launching Trust Machines, a new Stacks ecosystem entity, with $150 million in funding.
Markets & VenuesExecutive Hires
Gemini Names Pravjit Tiwana Chief Technology Officer
Gemini's co-founders welcomed Pravjit Tiwana as chief technology officer on January 24, 2022, a hire Crowdfund Insider independently reported the next day, and Bloomberg reported his exit 22 months later.
ProtocolsCEO Changes
Justin Sun Trades the TRON Foundation for Grenada's WTO Seat
TRON's founder gave up the Foundation's CEO role on December 17, 2021 to become Grenada's WTO ambassador.
Markets & VenuesExits and Removals
Katie Haun Leaves A16z Crypto to Launch Her Own Fund
Katie Haun told a16z crypto's team on December 15, 2021, that she would launch her own crypto and web3 fund in early 2022, ending four years as a general partner at the firm.
ProtocolsCEO Changes
David Washburn Departs as nChain Chief Executive
nChain replaced David Washburn as chief executive with Hakan Yuksel on October 20, 2021, thanking Washburn for launching the Kensei data integrity platform during his two and a half years.
ProtocolsExits and Removals
Sushi's 0xMaki Steps Down Into Advisory Role
Sushi core contributor 0xMaki announced on September 18, 2021, that he was leaving day-to-day operations at the decentralized exchange for an advisory role.
Markets & VenuesCEO Changes
Brian Brooks Resigns as Binance.US Chief Executive
Brian Brooks announced on X on August 6, 2021, that he had resigned as Binance.US chief executive after four months, citing differences over strategic direction.
Markets & VenuesExits and Removals
Wei Zhou Leaves Binance as Chief Financial Officer
Wei Zhou, Binance's chief financial officer, left the exchange on June 9, 2021, after nearly three years.
Markets & VenuesExits and Removals
Lee Schneider Departs as Block.one General Counsel
Lee Schneider's move from Block.one's general counsel to the first general counsel at Ava Labs became public on May 27, 2021, in Ava Labs' own Medium post.
Markets & VenuesCEO Changes
Bittrex Global's Tom Albright Steps Down as CEO
Bittrex Global's boards announced on May 18, 2021, that Tom Albright had stepped down as chief executive, with CFO and COO Stephen Stonberg named interim CEO the same day.
Markets & VenuesExits and Removals
Canaan CFO Quanfu Hong Resigns, Cites Personal Reasons
Canaan Inc. announced on February 9, 2021, that Chief Financial Officer Quanfu Hong had resigned for personal reasons, with Tong He stepping in as acting CFO the same day.
Markets & VenuesExits and Removals
Dan Larimer Resigns as Block.one's Chief Technology Officer
Dan Larimer left the job on December 31, 2020, and announced it on January 10, 2021, calling the EOS block producer elections a system of kickbacks.
Markets & VenuesCEO Changes
Barry Silbert Steps Down as Grayscale CEO
Barry Silbert, Grayscale's founder, handed the chief executive job to seven-year veteran Michael Sonnenshein on January 7, 2021, as the firm's assets under management passed $20 billion.
Markets & VenuesCEO Changes
Bitstamp's Kodrič Steps Down as CEO, Joins Board
Nejc Kodrič stepped down as Bitstamp's chief executive on October 22, 2020, nine years after he founded the exchange in a garage with 1,000 euros, and moved into a seat on the company's board.
Markets & VenuesCEO Changes
BitMEX Co-Founder Arthur Hayes Steps Down as CEO
Arthur Hayes stepped back as chief executive of BitMEX's parent, 100x Group, on Oct. 8, 2020, seven days after U.S. regulators and prosecutors charged him and two co-founders.
Payments & ConsumerCEO Changes
CoinMarketCap's Interim CEO Carylyne Chan Departs
Carylyne Chan left CoinMarketCap on Aug. 30, 2020, and CoinDesk reported the next day that four more executives left the Binance-owned site the same week.
ProtocolsExits and Removals
Josh Cincinnati Resigns as Zcash Foundation Executive Director
Josh Cincinnati announced on July 31, 2020, that he was resigning as the Zcash Foundation's executive director, citing a broken relationship with the Electric Coin Company's leadership.
ProtocolsCEO Changes
Josh Cincinnati Resigns as the Zcash Foundation's First Executive Director
The Zcash Foundation's executive director resigned on July 31, 2020, citing lost trust with the Electric Coin Company.
ProtocolsBoard Seats
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.
Markets & VenuesCEO Changes
Bakkt CEO Mike Blandina Steps Down After Four Months
Intercontinental Exchange named David Clifton interim CEO of Bakkt on April 23, 2020, replacing Mike Blandina four months after he took the role.
Markets & VenuesCEO Changes
Johnny Lyu Becomes KuCoin CEO as Michael Gan Becomes Chairman
KuCoin co-founder Johnny Lyu became CEO of KuCoin Global on March 17, 2020, the day Michael Gan became chairman of the new KuGroup.
ProtocolsCEO Changes
Jae Kwon Steps Down as Tendermint CEO After Six Years
Jae Kwon, Tendermint Inc.'s founder, gave up the chief executive title on February 4, 2020, promising a company run by a decentralized 'Process' instead of one person.
Markets & VenuesCEO Changes
Andrew Kiguel Steps Down as Hut 8 CEO
Hut 8 co-founder Andrew Kiguel said on January 28, 2020, that he would step down as chief executive once the board found a successor, the same day the miner renegotiated its debt with Bitfury.
Markets & VenuesCEO Changes
Kelly Loeffler Departs as Bakkt Chief Executive
Intercontinental Exchange said on December 23, 2019, that founding CEO Kelly Loeffler had left Bakkt for the U.S. Senate seat of retiring Sen. Johnny Isakson, and named Mike Blandina to succeed her.
Markets & VenuesCEO Changes
Gregory Johnson Steps Down as Franklin Templeton CEO
Franklin Resources named Jennifer Johnson president and CEO on Nov. 21, 2019, moving Gregory Johnson to executive chairman while he kept the board chairman title.
ProtocolsExits and Removals
ConsenSys Strategy Chief Sam Cassatt Steps Down to Launch Fund
Sam Cassatt left his post as ConsenSys chief strategy officer on Nov. 15, 2019 to start Aligned Capital, a venture fund backed by ConsenSys founder Joe Lubin that aimed to raise $50 million.
Markets & VenuesCEO Changes
Matthew Schultz Steps Down as CleanSpark Chief Executive
CleanSpark co-founder Matthew Schultz's move from chief executive to chairman of the board became public on October 9, 2019, handing the CEO title to president and finance chief Zach Bradford.
Payments & ConsumerExits and Removals
PayPal COO Bill Ready to Leave at Year's End
PayPal announced on June 20, 2019, that Chief Operating Officer Bill Ready would transition out of the company by the end of the year, closing a six-year run that began with PayPal's 800 million dollar purchase of his startup Braintree.
ProtocolsExecutive Hires
Roman Schnider Replaces Eelco Fiole as Tezos Foundation CFO
The Tezos Foundation named its own outside auditor, Roman Schnider, as chief financial officer on June 11, 2019, five months after Eelco Fiole took the same job.
ProtocolsCEO Changes
Amrit Kumar Takes Over Zilliqa From Xinshu Dong
Zilliqa's chief scientist became President on May 6, 2019, the day co-founder and CEO Xinshu Dong gave up daily operations.
Markets & VenuesExits and Removals
Franklin Resources CFO Ken Lewis to Retire
Franklin Resources told the SEC on March 18, 2019, that Chief Financial Officer Ken Lewis would retire May 6 after 30 years at the firm, handing the job to incoming hire Matthew Nicholls.
ProtocolsCEO Changes
Jed McCaleb Steps Down as Stellar Executive Director
The Stellar Development Foundation named Denelle Dixon its executive director and CEO on March 14, 2019, moving co-founder Jed McCaleb into a chief architect role focused on protocol growth.
ProtocolsCEO Changes
Jimmy Nguyen Steps Down as nChain Chief Executive
Jimmy Nguyen left the chief executive job at nChain on March 7, 2019, as the company named David Washburn his successor and moved Nguyen to chair its Strategic Advisory Board.
ProtocolsCEO Changes
Blythe Masters Steps Down as Digital Asset CEO
Blythe Masters resigned as chief executive officer of Digital Asset on December 18, 2018, after three years running the distributed ledger firm, handing the role to board chairman AG Gangadhar on an acting basis.
Payments & ConsumerExits and Removals
Sarah Friar Steps Down as Square CFO for Nextdoor
Square announced on October 10, 2018, that Chief Financial Officer Sarah Friar would leave to become chief executive of the social network Nextdoor; CEO Jack Dorsey credited her with steering Square through an IPO.
ProtocolsCEO Changes
Ming Chan Steps Down as Ethereum Foundation's Executive Director
Ming Chan left the Ethereum Foundation's top staff role on January 31, 2018, after two and a half years guiding the organization through the DAO hack and the 2016 denial-of-service attacks.
Payments & ConsumerCEO Changes
SoFi Co-Founder Mike Cagney Resigns as CEO
SoFi's board accepted Mike Cagney's resignation as CEO and director on Sept. 15, 2017, and named Executive Chairman Tom Hutton interim chief executive the same day.
Payments & ConsumerCEO Changes
Dash Founder Evan Duffield Steps Back as Chief Executive
Evan Duffield handed the Dash Core Project's top job to Ryan Taylor on April 18, 2017, moving into a senior advisor role years after he started the cryptocurrency network.
Payments & ConsumerCEO Changes
SatoshiLabs' Alena Vranova Steps Down as Chief Executive
Alena Vranova left the CEO post at SatoshiLabs effective January 17, 2017, to pursue independent ventures while continuing to work with the Trezor hardware wallet.
ProtocolsCEO Changes
Blockstream's Austin Hill Steps Down as Chief Executive
Austin Hill left Blockstream's board and the CEO job on October 3, 2016, handing the role to co-founder Adam Back after two years as its first chief executive.
