Cameron Winklevoss steps down from Gemini's European board
Cameron Winklevoss, a co-founder of cryptocurrency exchange Gemini, has stepped down from the European company board of directors, according to a Companies House filing from Oct. 12.
As indicated in a statement sent to the local press, Cameron continues to lead Gemini's global operations alongside his twin brother Tyler Winklevoss:
As per the filings, Gillian Lynch, the head of Gemini in Ireland and Europe, takes Blair Halliday's seat on the board. Blair was U.K. managing director at Gemini for two years before moving to the rival exchange Kraken this month, according to his LinkedIn profile.
In July, Gemini announced a registration as a virtual asset service provider (VASP) by the Central Bank of Ireland (CBI) after having received an electronic money institution (EMI) authorization from the CBI that allowed the company to issue electronic money, provide electronic payment services and handle electronic payments for third parties months before.
In June, the United States Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) filed a lawsuit against Gemini claiming that the company made false or misleading statements in 2017 during in-person meetings and in documents, violating the Commodity Exchange Act and other regulations.
The agency was making an evaluation of the potential self-certification of a Bitcoin futures contract to be based on the spot Bitcoin price determined by an auction held on Gemini’s digital asset trading platform.
Also this year, the exchange laid off over 10% of its staff as part of “extreme cost-cutting” during the crypto winter, just two months after the company's co-founders were featured as crypto billionaires in the Forbes list, with fortunes of $4 billion each.
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