Greg Oakford

1 month ago | cryptonews.bizlim.com | Ciaran Lyons |Jillian Godsil |Greg Oakford

Early Solana proponent Armani Ferrante says FTX and Alameda are his guiding light for what not to do with Backpack Exchange. Former Alameda Research employee turned crypto exchange founder Armani Ferrante knows firsthand that Eminems lyrics “you only get one shot, do not miss your chance to blow” couldnt be more true in crypto. When you see Elon Musk standing next to his rocket, then it collapses and crashes, he feels bad about it. He loses a lot of money.

1 month ago | cryptonews.bizlim.com | Don Tapscott |Turner Wright |Greg Oakford |Ciaran Lyons

Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse says the SEC lawsuit is “over,” Donald Trump speaks at Blockworks’ Digital Asset Summit: Hodler’s DigestThe US Securities and Exchange Commissions multi-year enforcement action against Ripple is finally coming to an end, according to the companys CEO. This is it the moment weve been waiting for. The SEC will drop its appeal a resounding victory for Ripple, for crypto, every way you look at it, Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse wrote on X on March 19.

1 month ago | cryptonews.bizlim.com | Andrew Fenton |Jillian Godsil |Yohan Yun |Greg Oakford

All of a sudden, it seems that everybody in the Ethereum ecosystem is talking about native rollups, with Ethereum Foundation researcher Justin Drake saying that everyone he’s spoken to about the proposal has been immediately supportive. Optimism, Base, and half a dozen other L2s have expressed a desire to incorporate the tech into their platforms — and some also want to also become “based rollups” for good measure.

1 month ago | cointelegraph.com | Greg Oakford

Sergito Silva — aka Sergito — was an unofficial ambassador for the Meebits collection of 20,000 3D voxel NFTs. Despite coming from Larva Labs, the founders of CryptoPunks and Autoglyphs, the collection was arguably undervalued. Fast forward to now and the ex-Goldman Sachs employee is at the center of the Meebs universe as CEO after acquiring the collection from Yuga Labs in February.

2 months ago | cointelegraph.com | Greg Oakford

Batsoupyum is one of the most prolific and respected NFT and digital art collectors there is. Prior to discovering NFTs, he’d invested in Bitcoin and participated in various venture and liquid token funds. But crypto was more of a side interest than a full time job. That changed in late 2020 when he tried to place a bet on the Biden vs. Trump election on Polymarket. Whilst stirring the pot on the site, he ended up getting connected to Polymarket’s CEO, Shayne Coplan.