Solana Foundation taps Binance, Polygon vets to drive institutional adoption and payments
Solana Foundation added Rachel Conlan as chief strategy officer and Jamal Raees as general manager of payments. The appointments are tied to institutional adoption and payments work, with Conlan coming from Binance and Raees from Polygon Labs. One item also says the foundation was building out those businesses after processing more than $5...
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Users and institutional customers will notice new leadership around Solana’s strategy and payments work after the foundation named Conlan and Raees. The appointments point to a more active push in those areas, and they give outside partners two new executives to engage with on those topics.
Before these hires, those roles were not filled by Conlan or Raees; now they are. What stays the same is that the network’s payments and institutional activity remain the focus, even as the leadership around them changes.
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