Near Foundation CEO Marieke Flement resigns

Marieke Flament, CEO of Near Foundation, the developer of the namesake assemblage layer-one protocol, has resigned.

According to the September 21 announcement, Chris Donovan, Near Foundation's wide counsel, volition regenerate Flament arsenic the caller CEO pursuing the resignation. Flament gave nary circumstantial crushed for her departure. Speaking connected her tenure, Flament said: 

"Two years ago, I had ne'er heard of NEAR. Upon doing a spot of probe and aft respective conversations it became wide that NEAR had a tremendous imaginable – fantastic tech, a divers and vibrant assemblage and a satellite of unfastened possibilities, and truthful I joined."

From 2021 to 2023, Flament claims that the regular progressive idiosyncratic number of Near Protocol grew from 50,000 to 3 million. Its Twitter followers besides grew from 200,000 to implicit 2 million, citing much than 2,000 pieces of property coverage. Partnerships signed by Near during this play see SWEAT, Playember, Circle, Ledger, Alibaba, Amazon, Google, KPMG, Cosmose AI, SailGP, The Littles, PipeFlare, Shemaroo, Kakao Games, Inven / Vortex and Netmarble / Marblex successful Korea.

In addition, Flament disclosed that the existent treasury equilibrium of the Near Foundation is 330 cardinal NEAR, worthy an estimated $350 million. Summing up her enactment strategy, Flament wrote:

"My strategy has been 1 of driving mainstream adoption, enabling and empowering grassroot communities and continuing our travel to decentralization. Bringing onboard ample web2 players, portion nurturing web3 innovators has besides been cardinal to our growth."

Near is presently the 40th largest crypto by marketplace cap, with its tokens worthy an estimated $1.04 billion. In June, Czech automobile conglomerate Škoda Auto launched a nonfungible tokens level connected the Near Protocol. 

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