Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong took home nearly $60 million in total compensation last year, according to the exchange operator’s S-1 Form published Thursday. That figure includes $1 million in salary, $56.7 million worth of stock options granted at a fair value, and $1.8 million marked as “all other compensation.” Armstrong’s total benefit for the year …
PayPal CEO Dan Schulman said Thursday that he sees PayPal playing a significant role in the utility of central bank digital currencies (CBDCs). On the company’s investor day call, Schulman said PayPal is gearing up to be “the digital wallet for global CBDCs.” PayPal’s newly unveiled product roadmap for crypto includes becoming a CBDC platform. …
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A crypto rally has been in full swing, but the biggest investors looking at the market are only interested in bitcoin, according to one industry CEO. In the latest episode of The Scoop, NYDIG chief executive Robert Gutmann said that most of the serious investors he’s speaking with are only interested in the largest crypto …
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Jay Hao, CEO of Malta-based cryptocurrency exchange OKEx, said his firm has taken steps to ensure the issue that caused a freeze of over five weeks in cryptocurrency withdrawals cannot reoccur. In an ask-me-anything (AMA) session, a transcript of which was published on Wednesday, Hao said the incident led the exchange “to make several improvements …
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100x Group, the parent company of crypto derivatives exchange BitMEX, has hired a veteran of the German stock exchange world as its new chief executive. BitMEX, which has been rattled by legal troubles and a shakeup of its top brass, said on Monday that Alexander Höptner would take the reigns as CEO beginning January 1. …
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The CEO of the hacked South Korean crypto exchange says suspects in the hack have been identified. Source link
Co-founder and CEO of Coinbase, Brian Armstrong recently shared, in a twitter thread his thoughts on Apple’s App Store restrictions that do not allow iOS users to earn money using cryptocurrency. The CEO also made claims that Apple told Coinbase that it was ’not appropriate’ for the App Store to allow iOS customers to use …
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Chef Nomi, the anonymous founder behind the viral decentralized finance (DeFi) project SushiSwap, has transferred the project control to FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried. The decision comes soon after Nomi faced intense criticism from the DeFi community for converting a portion of SUSHI tokens, meant for the development of the SushiSwap ecosystem, to ether (ETH) yesterday. …
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Ripple is reportedly struggling to find use cases for XRP and is looking to shift its strategy. The company now aims to be “the Amazon of payments,” CEO Brad Garlinghouse told The Financial Times in a report published on Thursday. “Amazon started as a bookseller and just sold books. We happen to have started with …
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The next two years will be critical for institutions entering crypto, according to David Mercer, CEO of LMAX, and the much-awaited wave of interest will be driven by the customer. On this week’s episode of The Scoop, Mercer told The Block LMAX Digital has already seen a significant uptick in inquiries from banks and funds …
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