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Jill Sommers, who served as a commissioner at the United States Commodity Futures Trading Commission, has joined the board of directors for FTX US Derivatives.In a Thursday announcement, crypto exchange FTX US’ derivatives arm said Sommers had become its latest board member in a move seeming to increase the company’s
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Join Michael Casey and Sheila Warren as they speak with Jill Carlson, founder of the Open Money Initiative, and Raoul Pal, CEO of RealVision for a dive into the beating heart of finance and the powerful changes that new technology invites.Bitcoin's tug of warRaoul Pal, CEO of RealVision and influential
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You may have heard: Yesterday, amid an enormous rally in the stock and surging trading volumes, Robinhood halted the ability of its users to trade GameStop (GME) stock. Chaos ensued. Retail traders everywhere cried foul, accusing the startup brokerage of protecting hedge funds and the establishment at their expense. U.S.
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What does it mean for a market to be manipulated?I know there are legal answers to this question, but that’s not really what I’m interested in. I am more interested in where and how we, as the blood-thirsty capitalist society that we are, draw the line between the market being
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No one would have expected an economic crisis to bring a new generation of investors to the table, but that’s exactly what it did.Jill Carlson is an investor with Slow Ventures and the co-founder of the Open Money Initiative. In this wide-ranging discussion with NLW she discusses how an economic
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Everyone agrees: Financial infrastructure is broken. We need a way to make cash flows deterministic. We should be able to set rules around trades and transfers. We should be able to do this without bloated back offices performing manual reconciliations and without requiring developers to integrate across an entire fragmented
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J. Jill stock’s 157% surge Tuesday looks like the work of retail investors on free brokerage apps like Robinhood.It’s a penny stock in a beaten-down company with a big brand teetering on the verge of bankruptcy, common fair on Robinhood.They came for Hertz, Delta, American Airlines, Carnival, and Ford. The
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Jill Carlson, a CryptoX columnist, is co-founder of the Open Money Initiative, a non-profit research organization working to guarantee the right to a free and open financial system. She is also an investor in early-stage startups with Slow Ventures. When I worked at Goldman Sachs, one of the running jokes among
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Arwen, a non-custodial settlement protocol developer, has raised $3.3 million in a funding round including Meltem Demirors at CoinShares and Jill Carlson at Slow Ventures.According to Arwen CEO and co-founder Sharon Goldberg, Slow Ventures led the round, which also included Collaborative Fund, Underscore VC and DG Lab Fund.The funding will
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