Coinbase announces global crypto-native think tank

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Coinbase has launched the Coinbase Institute, which the company says is a global crypto-native think tank grounded in evidence-based research.

Hermine Wong joins as the director of the Coinbase Institute and a Director of Policy at Coinbase. Previously, Ms. Wong served in the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission at their Division of Economic and Risk Analysis.

Dr. Cesare Fracassi joins the institute as its first director of Economic Research, and chief economist. Before joining Coinbase, he was an associate professor of finance at the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin, where he was the Director of the Blockchain Initiative and the Fintech Research Lab.

You can find the Coinbase blog post announcing the institute here.

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