Day: August 18, 2021

Could Walmart’s Crypto Expert Vacancy Reveal a Future Crypto Strategy? – Blockchain News, Opinion, TV and Jobs

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Walmart, the largest private employer in the United States, with 2.3 million employees placed a vacancy seeking a crypto expert to oversee, what could be, their upcoming digital currency push. The US supermarket chain has placed the ad for the position of product leader who will have the important task to outline their cryptocurrency strategy. According to the job posting Walmart is looking for a “visionary leader”, with at least 10 years of product management or technology experience to develop its blockchain strategy, preferably someone possessing “significant functional knowledge of…

Evolve Funds Files for Crypto ETF in Canada

Evolve Funds has filed a preliminary prospectus with the Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) for an Evolve Cryptocurrencies exchange-traded fund (ETF). The Evolve Cryptocurrencies ETF gives investors “indirect exposure” to certain cryptocurrencies selected by an investment manager, weighted on a market cap basis and rebalanced monthly, the firm said in a press release. (The ETF began trading Sept. 29 on the Toronto Stock Exchange.) Purpose Investment was the first firm to receive OSC approval and launch a bitcoin ETF in North America. Evolve is Canada’s second ETF issuer to have a…