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XRP Finally Gets Its Own Account on X
XRP picked Monday to open an X account, the same day banks and BlackRock pushed deeper into crypto.
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BlackRock Files Third Bitcoin ETF, Still Has Just Two Coins
BlackRock filed for a third bitcoin ETF Monday, even though it still only offers bitcoin and ethereum.
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Crypto's Big Names Tease Plans, Skip the Details
A bank, a founder and a stablecoin chief all teased big crypto news, and all left out the hard numbers.
Markets & VenuesExecutive Hires
BitGo Names Alex Rozman Chief Compliance Officer
BitGo named Exodus compliance veteran Alex Rozman its chief compliance officer on September 17, 2026, handing him oversight of a company that reported $65.2 billion in client assets that June.
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Fireblocks Names Elad Roisman Chief Regulatory Officer
Fireblocks appointed former SEC acting chairman Elad Roisman chief regulatory and policy officer on August 17, 2026, to lead the digital asset infrastructure firm's engagement with regulators as stablecoin rules take shape.
Markets & VenuesBoard Seats
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.
Markets & VenuesLayoffs
BitGo Cuts 15% of Staff to Focus on AI, Stablecoins
BitGo chief executive Mike Belshe cut nearly 15% of the company's workforce on June 25, 2026, five months after its IPO, to concentrate staff on security, trading, stablecoins, settlement, and AI infrastructure.
Markets & VenuesExecutive Hires
OnRe Names Ben Fortune Chief Underwriting Officer
OnRe named Ben Fortune chief underwriting officer on May 12, 2026, pulling him from The Fidelis Partnership to run underwriting at a reinsurer managing $170 million onchain.
Markets & VenuesBoard Seats
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.
Markets & VenuesExecutive Hires
Securitize Names Brett Redfearn President
Securitize named former SEC trading-and-markets director Brett Redfearn president and a board member on April 9, 2026, as the tokenization platform prepares for a public listing through Cantor Equity Partners II.
Markets & VenuesExecutive Hires
BitMine Names Young Kim CFO and COO
BitMine Immersion Technologies appointed Axiom Investors partner Young Kim as chief financial officer and chief operating officer on Jan. 9, 2026.
Markets & VenuesBoard Seats
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.
Markets & VenuesBoard Seats
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.
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
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.
Markets & VenuesExecutive Hires
Nexo Names Lorenzo Pellegrino Chief Banking Officer
Nexo named Lorenzo Pellegrino chief banking officer on July 31, 2025, handing the former Skrill and NETELLER chief executive the task of connecting the lender's digital asset platform to the banking system.
Markets & VenuesExecutive Hires
Jito Foundation Names Thomas Uhm Chief Commercial Officer
Jito Foundation hired Jane Street veteran Thomas Uhm as chief commercial officer on April 7, 2025, to pull institutional money toward the Solana staking protocol.
Markets & VenuesExecutive Hires
Securitize Names Georgia Quinn Chief Legal Officer
Securitize announced on March 4, 2025, that Georgia Quinn would join the tokenization platform as chief legal officer after four years as general counsel at Anchorage Digital.
Markets & VenuesExecutive Hires
21Shares Names Duncan Moir President
21.co's December 3, 2024 announcement named Duncan Moir, formerly of abrdn, president of 21Shares as 21.co split into two separate businesses.
Markets & VenuesExecutive Hires
21Shares Names Edel Bashir Chief Operating Officer
21.co's December 3, 2024 announcement named Edel Bashir, previously of abrdn, chief operating officer of 21Shares as 21.co split into two separate businesses.
Markets & VenuesCEO Changes
21Shares Names Russell Barlow Chief Executive Officer
21.co announced on December 3, 2024, that Russell Barlow, formerly of the asset manager abrdn, would become chief executive of 21Shares as the firm split into two separate businesses.
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 & VenuesCEO Changes
Copper Names Amar Kuchinad Global Chief Executive Officer
Copper named former SEC policy advisor Amar Kuchinad its global chief executive on October 14, 2024, taking over from founder Dmitry Tokarev after seven years.
Markets & VenuesExecutive Hires
Anchorage Digital Names Aaron Schnarch Chief Operating Officer
Anchorage Digital named former Coinbase Custody chief executive Aaron Schnarch its first company-wide chief operating officer on April 22, 2024, after the company topped $50 billion in assets under custody.
Markets & VenuesExecutive Hires
Anchorage Digital Names SEC Veteran TuongVy Le General Counsel
Anchorage Digital hired former SEC senior counsel TuongVy Le as general counsel on March 13, 2024, replacing Georgia Quinn, who had held the role for three and a half years.
Markets & VenuesExecutive Hires
Fireblocks Names Madan Gadde Chief Customer Officer
Fireblocks named Madan Gadde chief customer officer on March 7, 2024, hiring him from FIS as CoinDesk independently reported the same day.
Markets & VenuesExecutive Hires
Fireblocks Names Michael Levine Chief Financial Officer
Fireblocks named Michael Levine chief financial officer on March 7, 2024, hiring him from Payoneer's finance team as CoinDesk reported the same day.
Markets & VenuesExecutive Hires
Fireblocks Names Michal Ferguson Chief Marketing Officer
Fireblocks named Michal Ferguson chief marketing officer on March 7, 2024, hiring her from the cybersecurity platform Snyk as CoinDesk reported the same day.
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Donald Verrilli Wins Grayscale's Bitcoin ETF Case
Verrilli argued Grayscale v. SEC on March 7, 2023, and spot bitcoin ETFs later drew $57.2 billion net while $27.9 billion left Grayscale's fund.
Markets & VenuesBoard Seats
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.
Markets & VenuesExecutive Hires
FalconX Hires Baris Cetinok as Chief Product Officer
FalconX named Baris Cetinok chief product officer on Feb. 7, 2023, pulling a 25-year product veteran from Robinhood's brokerage platform into the institutional crypto broker.
Markets & VenuesCEO Changes
SEBA Bank Names Amy Yu Chief Executive for Asia-Pacific
SEBA Bank, the Swiss crypto bank now called AMINA Bank AG, named Amy Yu chief executive of its Asia-Pacific division on February 7, 2023, after she led regional sales at the collapsed lender Genesis Trading.
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
Prime Trust Names Jor Law Interim CEO
Prime Trust's board named longtime director Jor Law interim chief executive on November 29, 2022, the same day it replaced Tom Pageler, and Nevada petitioned to put the custodian into receivership seven months later.
Markets & VenuesCEO Changes
Komainu Names Nicolas Bertrand Chief Executive
Komainu, the Nomura-backed digital asset custodian, put Nicolas Bertrand in the CEO seat on September 26, 2022, pulling in a former Borsa Italiana derivatives chief to steer the firm through a falling market.
Markets & VenuesExecutive Hires
Copper Names Tim Neill Chief Risk Officer
Crypto custodian Copper hired Mastercard risk executive Tim Neill as chief risk officer on September 5, 2022, reporting to Chief Operating Officer Sabrina Wilson.
Markets & VenuesExecutive Hires
BitGo Promotes Chen Fang to Chief Operating Officer
BitGo elevated Chen Fang from chief product officer to chief operating officer on August 2, 2022, the same day it named Victor Tsou, a 20-year engineering veteran from Affirm, vice president of engineering.
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.
Markets & VenuesBoard Seats
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.
Markets & VenuesExecutive Hires
BitGo Names Jeff Horowitz Chief Compliance Officer
BitGo hired Jeff Horowitz, Coinbase's former chief compliance officer, on Jan. 13, 2021, weeks after BitGo paid $93,830 to settle 183 apparent sanctions violations with the U.S. Treasury.
Markets & VenuesExecutive Hires
BitGo Names Dick Corcoran CEO of Its Trust Company
BitGo brought banking veteran Dick Corcoran out of retirement on December 6, 2018, to run a new South Dakota trust company built to hold crypto for hedge funds and family offices.
Markets & VenuesExecutive Hires
Ledger Names Demetrios Skalkotos Global Head of Ledger Vault
Ledger opened a New York office on Nov. 26, 2018 and put Demetrios Skalkotos in charge of Ledger Vault, the custody product the Paris company built for institutions holding multiple cryptocurrencies.
Markets & VenuesExecutive Hires
Fidelity Names Tom Jessop Head of Fidelity Digital Assets
Fidelity Investments launched Fidelity Digital Assets on Oct. 15, 2018 and put Tom Jessop in charge, giving the $7.2 trillion asset manager its own custody and trade execution service for institutional bitcoin and ether holders.
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Christopher Giancarlo Lets Bitcoin Futures Self-Certify
The CFTC let CME and Cboe list bitcoin futures on Dec. 1, 2017, and a court cited that market to overturn the SEC's Grayscale denial.
