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According to Gate Market, U.S. chip stocks continued to decline in pre-market trading after Jensen Huang announced his resignation as CEO. Intel (INTC.O) fell 3.7%, Marvell Technology (MRVL.O) fell 5.2%, Micron Technology (MU.O) fell 5.2%, Arm (ARM.O) fell 4.1%, SK Hynix (SKHY.O) fell 5.1%, and TSMC (TSM.N) fell 3.5%.

NVIDIA announced that CEO Jensen Huang has resigned from his positions as President, Chief Executive Officer, and Board Member effective immediately.In addition, NVIDIA has appointed Colette Kress as the interim Chief Executive Officer while she continues to serve as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer; Harvey C. Jones has been appointed as the company's first Chairman of the Board.

According to Global Market Broadcast, Bridgewater's Co-Chief Investment Officer Karen Karniol-Tambour will leave to become the first CEO of the newly established Canadian Sovereign Wealth Fund, the Canada Prosperity Fund. This fund is one of the initiatives promoted by Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, aimed at strengthening Canada's key strategic industries and reducing economic dependence on the United States. The fund has an initial investment of 25 billion Canadian dollars (17.7 billion US dollars), sourced from the federal government, and will only invest in Canadian companies and projects to seek long-term returns.41-year-old Karniol-Tambour has been with Bridgewater since graduating from Princeton University in 2006. In 2023, during a company reform led by CEO Nir Bar Dea, she was appointed Co-Chief Investment Officer alongside Greg Jensen and Bob Prince, responsible for Bridgewater's Asia strategy, which includes the China investment management business. Sources indicate that Bridgewater has no plans to hire or promote anyone else to replace Karniol-Tambour. In addition to Jensen and Prince, Bridgewater also has two Deputy Chief Investment Officers, Ben Melkman and David Trinh.

Paraguayan President Santiago Peña announced his resignation on Thursday due to a political crisis triggered by the collapse of digital bank Ueno Bank. In a video posted on the X platform, Peña stated that his resignation was to maintain national stability, social peace, and democratic institutions, with his primary task being to protect the Paraguayan people who entrusted their savings to the financial system.The Central Bank of Paraguay announced on Tuesday the initiation of liquidation procedures for Ueno Bank after discovering that its solvency ratio had fallen below half of the regulatory minimum requirement. Peña is facing political scrutiny due to his previous business ties with Grupo Vázquez, the holding company of Ueno Bank; according to the Associated Press, he remained a business partner of the group until March 2025. Peña denied any wrongdoing, stating that the controversy initially was merely a regulatory issue that escalated into a political dispute.This banking crisis is also accompanied by rising quotes for Tether's USDt in the peer-to-peer market targeting Paraguay, with a bid on Thursday morning quoted at 1 USD to 6942 Paraguayan Guarani, approximately 13% higher than the Central Bank's reference rate of 6144.02 on November 4. According to Reuters, lawmakers are debating impeachment proceedings over allegations of conflicts of interest, pension abuse, and institutional cover-ups. Peña was elected in April 2023 and took office in August of the same year, with a five-year term originally set to end in 2028; if Congress accepts his resignation, Vice President Pedro Alliana will assume the remaining term.

Zilliqa stated that the investigation into the recent security incident is still ongoing, with affected components including the X-Bridge and certain liquidity pools using ZRC2 proxy contracts, involving tokens such as zUSDT, SEED, kUSD, and Zoge.Zilliqa emphasized that the native ZIL and Zilliqa EVM network were not affected, and the X-Bridge will remain suspended; users are advised not to use the cross-chain bridge and the affected liquidity pools for the time being.

Stablecoin issuer Circle Internet Group (NYSE: CRCL) disclosed in an 8-K filing submitted on September 25 that co-founder P. Sean Neville has resigned from the board for personal reasons, effective immediately, reducing the board size from 8 to 7 members.On the same day, Chief Financial Officer Jeremy Fox-Geen notified the company of his intention to resign, but will remain until the end of 2026 to assist with the transition. Circle has engaged an executive search firm to find successors. The company stated that the departures of both individuals were not due to disagreements regarding the company's operations, policies, or practices.

According to CoinDesk, American Bitcoin (ABTC), a Bitcoin mining company associated with the Trump family, announced that President and interim Chief Financial Officer (CFO) Matt Prusak will leave on August 4 to join AI and energy infrastructure company Giga Energy as Chief Business Officer and interim CFO.Prusak stated that after "years of building the Bitcoin business," he will shift to the upstream energy infrastructure sector, focusing on the current power supply issues that limit the development of Bitcoin mining and AI computing.American Bitcoin was co-founded by Eric Trump and supported by Hut 8, and it is a publicly traded Bitcoin mining company listed on NASDAQ. Prusak was previously responsible for driving the company's Bitcoin accumulation strategy, including expanding hash power and increasing the BTC holdings per share.Giga Energy, headquartered in Houston, primarily develops power equipment and AI data center infrastructure. The company stated that it has delivered over 6.5GW of power infrastructure and is developing over 500MW of AI data center capacity.Industry insiders believe that Prusak's transition reflects the accelerating migration of the Bitcoin mining industry towards the AI infrastructure sector. As competition in the mining business intensifies and profit margins are pressured, more mining companies are beginning to leverage their own power resources, land reserves, and data center capabilities to enter the AI computing infrastructure market.As large tech companies compete for power and data center capacity, energy supply has become a core bottleneck for the expansion of AI computing, and companies with the ability to integrate power resources are gaining more attention.

Hsiao-Wei Wang, the first Chinese Executive Director of the Ethereum Foundation, announced her resignation today. In the announcement, she stated, "I have decided to prioritize my personal life and future direction. Now is the right time to step back and I am still contemplating what my next steps should be." In response, Vitalik Buterin praised Hsiao-Wei Wang's contributions, stating that she has been a "steadfast contributor to the Ethereum ecosystem for the past decade" and expressed his "anticipation for her next adventures."On March 10, 2025, the Ethereum Foundation (EF) announced that Hsiao-Wei Wang (Chinese name: Wang Xiaowei) was promoted to board member, becoming the first Chinese leader to rise from the technical grassroots to the board in the seven years since EF's establishment.

Base Marketing Director Sarah Wolf tweeted that she will officially leave Coinbase after nearly five years of work. She joined Coinbase in 2023 as the first Builder Marketer, participating in and promoting Base from its initial small pizza party to an active builder community covering 52 countries.Sarah Wolf stated that after leaving, she will join Anthropic to be responsible for startup marketing, expressing her anticipation to support the startup ecosystem built around Claude.

According to Bloomberg, informed sources revealed that Usman Ahmad, the CEO of Zodia Markets, a cryptocurrency trading company under Standard Chartered Bank, has resigned.The Zodia Markets official website shows that Nick Philpott, who previously served as the head of partnerships at the company, has been appointed as the interim CEO. So far, both Zodia Markets and Standard Chartered Bank spokespeople have declined to comment on the matter.

According to Cryptopolitan, Bitcoin Core developer Gloria Zhao has resigned from her maintainer position and revoked her cryptographic signing key. She has long focused on areas such as mempool validation, transaction forwarding, and fee estimation, and her resignation does not affect Bitcoin's consensus rules, network security, or transaction processing.The report notes that resigning and revoking keys is a common practice in open-source projects. Bitcoin Core maintainers are a trusted small group of developers responsible for code review, update approval, and digitally signing official releases using keys. Zhao has contributed to Bitcoin Core development for over six years, but her work did not involve changing the underlying protocol rules of Bitcoin. Zhao did not respond regarding the specific reasons for her departure.

In response to the collective departure of the Zcash development team, the nonprofit organization behind the project, Bootstrap, clarified that the governance disputes leading to the departure of team members stemmed from legal restrictions faced while seeking external investment. Discussions have been held regarding "alternative structures for external investment and the privatization of Zashi," while collaborating with legal advisors to ensure that any path forward complies with U.S. nonprofit laws, aligns with Zcash's long-term mission, and does not jeopardize the broader Zcash community.

ECC's former CEO Josh Swihart stated that due to serious differences in mission with some board members of the Zcash governance body Bootstrap (ZCAM), all members of ECC (Electric Coin Company) collectively resigned yesterday and are forming a new company to continue the development of Zcash-related privacy technologies.Swihart emphasized that the Zcash protocol itself is unaffected, and this move aims to resist destructive interference from the governance layer, ensuring that the team can sustainably advance the vision of "unstoppable private money."

ChainCatcher news, according to CoinDesk, cryptocurrency exchange Kraken is preparing for a potential listing in the U.S. early next year. Currently, four executives from its institutional business division have left the company.Unnamed sources revealed that the recent departures from Kraken include: Global Head of Institutional Sales David Olsson, Head of Exchange Business and Vice President of Product and Pro Services Shannon Kurtas, Director of OTC Jeff K, and Head of OTC for the Americas Sanjay K.

ChainCatcher news, recently, according to Caixin citing multiple sources, Bao Fan has ended his cooperation with the investigation. It has been about two and a half years since Bao Fan was initially detained by the relevant authorities, and with his recent reappearance, the public is concerned whether he has completely returned to freedom.Huaxing Capital stated that Mr. Bao Fan officially resigned from his positions as Executive Director, Chairman of the Board, CEO, and all related roles on February 2, 2024. From now on, Mr. Bao Fan will no longer participate in the group's daily management and operations, and Huaxing Capital will not respond to personal issues.

ChainCatcher news, according to Cointelegraph, Czech Justice Minister Pavel Blazek has announced his resignation on May 30 due to controversy over his department's sale of Bitcoin donated by a convicted criminal.The Ministry of Justice previously announced on social media platform X that it had obtained approximately 1 billion Czech koruna (about 45 million USD) by auctioning nearly 500 Bitcoins. Subsequent reports from Czech news media Denik N revealed that these Bitcoins came from the convicted operator of the dark web platform Sheep Marketplace, Tomas Jirikovsky.In March of this year, Jirikovsky's lawyer proposed donating one-third of the Bitcoins to Blazek, but Blazek accepted the donation without adequately investigating the source of the funds. The police are currently investigating the source of these Bitcoins.

ChainCatcher news, the public blockchain Zilliqa announced on platform X that Matt Dyer has resigned as the Chief Technology Officer of Zilliqa. During this transition period, the internal management team will be responsible for daily operations while continuing to advance the migration to Zilliqa 2.0. After this transition, the company will formulate a long-term leadership strategy. The primary focus remains on successfully launching the upgraded Zilliqa 2.0 network according to the updated roadmap and timeline. Under the leadership of Zoltan Fazekas, the Zilliqa technology team is working hard to ensure a smooth migration and will continue to provide regular updates on protocol development and testing progress.

ChainCatcher news, former board member of the Avalanche Foundation Omer (@demirelo) released a statement on the X social platform confirming that three board members, including Aytunç Yildizli and Vikram Nagrani, officially resigned from the board of the foundation and its subsidiaries earlier this week.Among them, executive director Aytunç Yildizli ceased to perform his duties on February 28, 2025, after which the board has been in a wait-and-see mode, trying to find a way forward.Omer stated, "During the past 18 months of my and Aytunç Yildizli's and Vikram Nagrani's tenure, we have driven several important initiatives, including establishing the Avalanche Foundation's brand image, releasing the first annual report, launching incentive programs such as infraBUIDL () and infraBUIDL (AI), and developing the AiFRED project. We also focused on strengthening internal coordination within the ecosystem and shifting the growth strategy towards new market development and strategic partnerships. This collective voluntary resignation decision is 'well-considered,' and we will continue to pay attention to the development of the Avalanche ecosystem in the future, wishing all the best for the Avalanche ecosystem and community."