Leadership

Gemini announced the immediate departures of COO Marshall Beard, CFO Dan Chen and top lawyer Tyler Meade, triggering a selloff months after the firm's IPO. Co-founder Cameron Winklevoss will assume COO duties while the board appoints interim finance and legal chiefs.

Tomasz Stańczak will leave his role as co-executive director of the Ethereum Foundation at the end of February 2026 after a one-year tenure. Leadership will transition to Bastian Aue, who will serve alongside Hsiao-Wei Wang.

CFTC Chair Michael Selig has tapped pro-crypto Amir Zaidi as his chief of staff at the start of his tenure, a move that arrives after a recent milestone in Bitcoin futures trading. The appointment signals a potential industry-friendly tilt as the agency prepares for evolving derivatives oversight.

Binance named co-founder Yi He as its co-chief executive on Wednesday. The move is positioned as part of the exchange's leadership continuity amid ongoing global regulatory and growth challenges.

CZ will not return to Binance, attorney Teresa Goody Guillén said, and he plans to focus on projects outside the exchange. Ongoing U.S. regulatory scrutiny is effectively preventing his reentry into the company’s leadership.