Polkadot ecosystem falls 2.9% after founder Gavin Wood steps down as Parity CEO

The marketplace headdress of the Polkadot ecosystem has declined astir 2.9% pursuing quality of Gavin Wood‘s departure arsenic CEO.

Polkadot laminitis Gavin Wood announced connected Oct. 21, that helium was quitting his relation arsenic CEO of Parity Technologies, the genitor institution down the Polkadot and Kusama ecosystems.

Wood said his semipermanent passionateness has been to beryllium a thinker, coder, designer, and architect. Consequently, taking disconnected the CEO chapeau volition let him to instrumentality to enactment full-time connected solving problems facing the Polkadot ecosystem.

“I’ll beryllium pointing my regained absorption towards exploring however we tin lend to making Polkadot and Web3 much applicable to ample swathes of the population,” Wood added.

Following Wood’s departure, Parity co-founder Bjorn Wagner volition instrumentality implicit arsenic the caller CEO.

Wood who is simply a large shareholder successful Parity Technologies volition proceed serving arsenic a committee member, but volition not beryllium progressive successful the day-to-day moving of the company.

Polkadot ecosystem successful red

The Polkadot ecosystem has reportedly mislaid implicit 2.9% of its marketplace headdress successful the past 24 hours, arsenic it sits astatine astir $13 billion.

CryptoSlate information shows that Polkadot’s DOT has declined by astir 4.3% to commercialized astatine $5.84, portion its sister Kusama (KSM) token has fallen by 7% successful the past 24 hours.

Other apical assets successful the ecosystem similar Moonbeam (GLMR) and Astar (ASTR)have mislaid 2.9% and 2.2% of their values respectively.

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