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Strix Leviathan’s trading head learned a lot about risk as a soldier. Here’s what Nico Cordeiro has carried over into crypto.

Digital assets natives have carved out a niche among the conference’s Wall Street attendees

Self-styled ‘crypto CFA’ Ram Ahluwalia has carved out a following by publicly breaking down challenges facing industry titans

‘It’s their reputation that gets them deal flow,’ Cambridge’s top crypto executive told Blockworks at iConnections this week

Many Solana unicorn projects are transitioning to multichain futures, but founders Anatoly Yakovenko and Raj Gokal haven’t lost hope yet

The founder of Draper Associates says his venture capital firm is focusing on investing in startups developing BitcoinFi applications

The FTX co-founder said he was “frankly surprised” by how entangled his market maker had become with his exchange — the impetus of the blowup

Disgraced FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried is saying a lot these days, but can we believe him?

Blockworks sat down with Paul Brody, EY’s blockchain head, to discuss the shifting regulatory and corresponding tax landscape

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.