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Ken Kurson, a board member of payments firm Ripple and the co-founder of cryptocurrency website Modern Consensus, was arrested Friday and charged with cyberstalking in connection with his divorce, the New York Times reported. Kurson, who is a close friend of President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, is accused of sending
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The Chamber of Digital Commerce will now have diverse opinions that will steer forward crypto regulations and adoption globally.American leading blockchain and digital assets advocacy group Chamber of Digital Commerce has taken a step further by adding key players to its board members. First, the NGO listed former Acting White
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The new board members represent decentralized finance and institutional crypto alike. Source
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The high-profile additions come as Coinbase reportedly eyes a public offering. Source
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Bill Shihara, founder and CEO of Bittrex crypto exchange, is joining the Board of Directors for Seattle-based blockchain startup StormX.According to an announcement from StormX, the addition of Shihara to the board comes after the CEO invested “an undisclosed sum” in the company’s latest equity round. However, Shihara was already
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Public Mint launched its ‘fiat-native’ public blockchain on July 1 following two years of development.The platform comprises a blockchain for the tokenization of fiat currencies that are held in the accounts of insured and regulated fiat custodians — essentially comprising a stablecoin backed by a network of banks.Public Mint claims
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Cathy Barrera, a CryptoX columnist, is a founding economist at Prysm Group, an economic advisory group, and was chief economist at ZipRecruiter. She has a PhD in business economics from Harvard. On May 6, Facebook announced the members of its new oversight board. They include a Nobel Laureate, a former Prime Minister,
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The Digital Dollar Project, which advocates a blockchain-backed digital dollar in the United States, has announced the inaugural roster of its Advisory Board.The new advisors joining the founders of the projectThe project is an initiative of several former heads of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and Accenture. The
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The board of the International Organization of Commissions, or IOSCO, recently unveiled a write-up on stablecoins as they may overlap with current market regulations, including securities laws. Listing several other reports and touchpoints, the IOSCO board pointed toward stablecoin structure in its March 2020 report:“Ultimately, the applicability of any IOSCO
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The Telos Foundation — the organization behind smart contract platform Telos (TLOS) — has taken action against two of its board members following a network security controversy.Telos is a platform that supports the creation of decentralized applications (DApps) and decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) running on EOS.io, the software underlying
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