C4 Announces CCSS Steering Committee: Invites Community Input

Ryan Zagone, whose title is Head of Research for the Business Development Team at Ripple Labs, was recently elected to work to work on a team within the Federal Reserve. The team is called the "Faster Payments Task Force Steering Committee," and Zagone's election is part of an ongoing effort on the part of the Fed to integrate members of private industry in its modernization efforts. Over 300 private companies have decided to take part in the FPTF, and of that wide group, a steering committee of sixteen people were selected. This is where Zagone comes in, representing Ripple Labs. As part....

The Enterprise Ethereum Alliance has revealed a new technical steering committee, five months after the group first launched. As CoinDesk reported at the group's launch in February, the alliance is backed by a broad array of blockchain startups and enterprise businesses, including Merck, Toyota, and even the state government of Illinois. The group tripled in size in May, adding more than 80 companies to its roster. Now, the group is laying down some of its governance foundations, instituting a new technical steering committee that will be focused on advancing the EntEth 1.0 reference....

Blockchain Embassy Asia (BCE.Asia), a Malaysia-based non-profit, digitally-distributed organization that promotes blockchain governance as a method for collaboration among business entities in Asia, recently established a steering committee in its mission of educating organizations in Asia about the legal and technical implications of distributed ledgers. The organization recently fulfilled its self-imposed requirement of having nine “ambassadors” with different specialties for its Malaysian Steering Committee. They are: RHB, trustee ambassador; MahWengKwai & Associates, legal....

Creators of the Ripple payment protocol, Ripple Labs, have been elected to the Federal Reserve's Faster Payment Task Force Steering Committee. The Fed created the Faster Payment Task Force earlier this year to tackle the challenge of upgrading the United States' outdated payment infrastructure, which lags behind Europe, and, in some cases, emerging markets such as China. The committee will help execute and discuss a payment strategy laid out by the Fed earlier this year. The central bank's main goal is upgrading the country's domestic payment system used for e-check settlement, called the....

The Bitcoin Foundation has created three legal committees to offer help and guidance to businesses and individuals in the digital currency space. Mike Hearn has been announced as the chairman of the Law and Policy Steering Committee while Marco Santori is chairman of the Regulatory Affairs Committee and Brian Klein is chairman of the Legal Defense Committee. "We're putting together a team of people to engage regulators across the country in a conversation - to try and be proactive about bitcoin education," said Santori. He explained the committees are trying to get people from every US....