Billionaire and crypto industry veteran Anthony Di Iorio, founder of the Jaxx wallet-maker Decentral, retired this week to focus on "Philanthropic initiatives," he told CoinDesk.
The ethereum co-founder will continue funding Decentral and approving budgets as chairman of the board.
Former product manager Maggie Xu, Di Iorio's girlfriend of two years, will take the helm as the company's new CEO. "If she develops a roadmap, presents it to me, it will be approved depending on which resources she needs," Di Iorio said.
Stepping back, in 2018 Di Iorio said the crypto wallet had up to a million monthly users and had processed more than $2 billion worth of crypto swaps through a partnership with ShapeShift.
Transaction fees from the ShapeShift integration were Decentral's primary revenue flow, Di Iorio said, peaking at $300,000 a month.
Decentral laid off almost half of its staff, he said, down to the 14 employees it has today.
Decentral is hiring again these days, a few developer positions, because it runs nearly a dozen nodes to ease integrations and data flows across the assets supported in the mobile app.
Xu told CoinDesk they've finally secured five integration partnerships, including GiftPay and Changelly, which should allow users to convert tokens inside the app and spend them with fiat-denominated gift cards by 2020.
"We're looking to bring back Decentral meetups."
Over the next six months, Xu plans to prioritize these integrations and seek funding through "Strategic partnerships." She added the newest version of the mobile wallet, Jaxx Liberty, garnered 250,000 downloads over the past year.
Ethereum Co-Founder Anthony Di Iorio Steps Down as Decentral CEO
Published on Sep 3, 2019
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