Libra is again in the spotlight this week after the Wall Street Journal reported that key members of the Libra Association including Visa and Mastercard are becoming uneasy as global regulatory scrutiny increases. The claims hit a nerve, as Facebook’s Libra lead David Marcus took to Twitter to respond. He argued that while he didn’t know of any specific organizations that weren’t prepared to step up, “commitment to the mission is more important than anything else.”
Libra is not the only player in the larger global landscape of emergent digital currencies. A recent blogpost from the IMF discussed the growing interests governments have in “synthetic central bank digital currencies,” while prominent writer and economist Tyler Cowen took to Bloomberg to write that CBDCs would shift too much power away from the private sector and toward the state.
Gubernatorial Appointee Wyoming Blockchain Task Force
Caitlin Long is a 22-year Wall Street veteran who has been active in bitcoin and blockchain since 2012. She has been leading the charge to make her native state of Wyoming an oasis for blockchain companies in the US, where she helped Wyoming enact 13 blockchain-enabling laws in 2018 and 2019.
Matt Hougan Global Head of Research Bitwise Asset Management
Matt Hougan is one of the world’s leading experts on ETFs, crypto, financial technology and disruption. Hougan is also the Global Head of Research for Bitwise Asset Management, creator of the world's first cryptocurrency index fund.
Prior to co-founding The TIE, Joshua worked as a consultant at SS&C Technologies where he helped develop post-trade technological solutions for the world’s leading custodians, brokers, and asset managers. Identifying a lack of trusted and transparent data and technology in the digital asset space, Joshua decided to leave his role at SS&C to build The TIE full-time in March 2018.
