More institutions are looking to invest in crypto, says NEAR Foundation CEO
In an interview at the Paris Blockchain Week Summit, NEAR Foundation CEO Marieke Flament shared insights on institutional investments, regulation and DAOs. Cointelegraph’s Joseph Hall interviewed Marieke Flament, the CEO of NEAR Foundation at the Paris Blockchain Week Sumit (PWBS) last week, discussing a range of topics such as the struggle by institutional investors to understand how they can participate in the crypto space.Hall and Flament talked about how institutional investors are trying to learn about crypto to understand how they can enter the market. According to Flament, as more....
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