Mike Cahill, director of the Pyth Data Association, sat down with Blockworks to speak about the macro environment and the possibilities of a multichain future

BlockFi was one of the fastest growing crypto startups in history, but bear market realities struck during a week of rapid calls before Bankman-Fried’s bailout

Controversial Tron founder Justin Sun has so far struggled to garner significant interest in his set of forked ether tokens

Blockworks sat down with arrested crypto insider Christopher Emms to discuss his ill-fated trip to North Korea

Shkreli, AKA “Pharma Bro,” developed a blockchain-based drug discovery software that tests the power of tokenomics

Fireblocks’ Varun Paul says central banks feel growing pressure to offer alternative to stablecoins

Copper’s Glenn Barber said he left traditional finance when crypto took the lead in innovation

Bankman-Fried said, he’s “totally supportive of making sure the best-off pay their fair share, and maybe more”

Vanessa Harris was appointed chief product officer at Permission.io after being a lead product manager for about nine years at Microsoft and 11 years at Google.

Dexterity Capital, an algorithmic high-frequency trading firm focused on cryptocurrencies, is looking to solve some of the biggest challenges in finance.

As the crypto space evolves, regulation for the industry is paramount, but it has to be done in a correct way, General Counsel and CCO of Bitwise Katherine Dowling said.

New Form Capital focuses on a new form of finance with an interest in investing in the intersection of Wall Street and crypto.

“The technical capabilities of the blockchain and what it can actually do to the financial system is definitely the thing that attracted me to it once I really started to dig into the layers of it,” said Sadie Raney, co-founder of Makara Digital.

After nearly two decades spent working for firms from Lehman Brothers to Deutsche Bank, Ling and a colleague saw where the future of finance was headed.

Valkyrie CEO Leah Wald speaks to Blockworks about her journey in the digital assets industry from Africa to Wall Street.

Lukka’s head of data and analytics Dan Huscher got his start in financial data at information provider IHS Markit, where he spent 16 years after serving in the US Army.

Solidus Labs CEO Asaf Meir told Blockworks that the digital asset industry’s ‘blank canvas’ appealed to him because he was able to create something out of nothing.

As a fairly early entrant into the crypto market, Murphy experienced the typical skepticism from his peers and colleagues.

“What I discovered about myself at Jane Street was that I was able to pull together the business side and the technology side,” said Harrison.

Mognetti, an economist by training, has been with CoinShares since before it even became CoinShares.

“I heard about cryptography from the security engineering team,” Veltman said. “And then, as I started learning about blockchain, it really resonated with me from an intellectual standpoint.”

Orser is excited about people starting to see blockchain as a disruptive technology and not just an investable asset.

Sonnenshein described himself as “steadfastly loyal to Barry Silbert and to the vision that he set out” to accelerate the development of a better financial system through the proliferation of digital assets and blockchain technology.

Oil was once the only industry Shah ever knew. She grew up in Houston, Texas, and her parents worked in the oil industry. She earned a degree in petroleum engineering and took a job at Chevron after graduating. She stayed in oil until energy took a hit in 2015 and then began looking for an out.

Soubiran first heard about bitcoin by chance. A mathematician by training, she was intrigued.