Yesterday Tess Rinearson announced on Twitter that she will be leading the new Twitter Crypto team. According to her Tweet, the team will focus on “crypto, blockchains, and other decentralized technologies—including and going beyond cryptocurrencies.” We hope that includes self sovereign identity.
Rinearson also said that her group would be involved with Twitter Blue Sky, a project building an open source decentralized social media protocol. Twitter Crypto will be the center of excellence for all things blockchain at Twitter.
For the last couple of years, Berlin-based Rinearson has been involved with Cosmos and Interchain, which is all about interoperability. Prior to that, she was with Chain.com, which was acquired by InterStellar where she worked for a year, and her new role likely means a move back to the West Coast.
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