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Deep DivesErik Voorhees

Erik Voorhees

Role

Founder and CEO of ShapeShift.io

Location

Antarctica

Education

BA at University of Puget Sound(Business Leadership and Political Economics),Vail Mountain School

Current Project

ShapeShift.io

Previous Projects

Coinapult,BitInstant,Podium Group,Better Homes

Twitter

@erikvoorhees

LinkedIn

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Recent News

  • Erik Voorhees. Image: Venice AI

    Erik Voorhees' Venice AI Now Offers Real-Time Search Results

    Venice AI, the decentralized generative AI model from ShapeShift founder Erik Voorhees, has taken a major leap forward, announcing on Thursday that its service is now connected to the web for real-time responses. Voorhees launched the privacy-focused Venice AI in May as an alternative to centralized and censored AI models like OpenAI's ChatGPT, Anthropic's Claude AI, and Google's Gemini—touting the project as “a team of crypto folks building an AI app” that's “architected upon the crypto ethos.”...

  • Image: AST/FTX.US

    SBF Addresses Backlash, Revises His Crypto Standards Proposal

    Sam Bankman-Fried, founder and chief executive of cryptocurrency exchange FTX, took to Twitter to calm the waters after his proposal for a regulatory framework for crypto made waves earlier this week. The influential crypto billionaire posted an extensive Twitter thread on Saturday, addressing some of the concerns that members of the crypto community had with the blog post he shared on Wednesday. One user on Twitter classified the proposal as a step backwards, going as far to say that SBF’s goal...

    NewsBusiness
    5 min read
    André Beganski
  • IMAGE: Unsplash

    ShapeShift to Become Decentralized Exchange, Airdrops FOX Tokens to 1M+ Users

    ShapeShift, the cryptocurrency exchange founded in 2014 by Erik Voohees, announced today that it will decentralize its operations and gradually shutter its corporate business. Instead, the firm will turn over control to its users and become a decentralized exchange (DEX) that enables trading without intermediaries. According to the firm, ShapeShift’s codebase and technology will go fully open source in the months to come, with control turned over to a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO)....

    NewsBusiness
    4 min read
    Andrew Hayward
  • Cryptocurrencies. Image: Shutterstock

    ShapeShift CEO Predicts Crypto Market Cap Will Double in 6 Months

    The global cryptocurrency market capitalization crossed the $1 trillion mark yesterday in a major breakthrough. It took a decade to do so. But Erik Voorhees, CEO of self-custody crypto platform ShapeShift, predicted today that it will repeat this feat—in just six months. “Crypto Market Cap: $1 Trillion. Took ten years. It will take less than six months to get to $2 Trillion,” Voorhees wrote. Crypto Market Cap: $1 Trillion Took ten years. It will take less than six months to get to $2 Trillion....

    NewsOpinion
    2 min read
    Liam Frost
  • No thanks. Too risky. Image: Shutterstock

    ShapeShift Confirms Regulatory Risk Led to Privacy Coin Delistings

    Crypto trading platform ShapeShift delisted privacy coins Monero, Dash, and Zcash to limit the company’s regulatory risk, according to ShapeShift. “We delisted all those coins at the same time, for the same reason,” ShapeShift Chief Legal Officer Veronica McGregor told Decrypt. “We are de-risking the company from a regulatory standpoint, so, for now, we are not working with those coins. We may revisit the situation in the future.” IRS Dishes Out $1.25 Million for Data Firms to Crack Monero CoinD...

    NewsCoins
    2 min read
    Jeff Benson
  • It's gone. Image: Shutterstock

    ShapeShift Quietly Delists Monero Privacy Coin

    ShapeShift has delisted prominent privacy coin Monero from its platform, a ShapeShift spokesperson told Decrypt via Twitter. It’s also delisted Dash, a Bitcoin Cash competitor with optional anonymity features. Unlike standard cryptocurrency exchanges, ShapeShift is a portal for buying, selling, and trading cryptocurrencies while maintaining ownership of one’s private keys.  EARN IT Act a Dire Threat to Encryption, Speech Online, Critics Say Founded in Switzerland, which is well-known for banking...

    NewsCoins
    3 min read
    Jeff Benson
  • The SEC has taken a hard stance on crypto. Image: Shutterstock

    Crypto Startup Salt Must Offer Refunds on $47 Million ICO: SEC

    The United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced today that SALT Blockchain, the company behind cryptocurrency-backed loan service SALT Lending, must refund customers that purchased its SALT tokens during an initial coin offering (ICO) in 2017. According to the SEC, the ICO represented an illegally unregistered securities offering. All told, the ICO raised $47 million from June through December 2017, although an additional $1.2 million worth of SALT tokens were sold through A...

    NewsCoins
    2 min read
    Andrew Hayward
  • ShapeShift has launched a mobile trading app (Source: ShapeShift)

    ShapeShift launches "self-sovereign" mobile trading app

    Self-custody crypto platform ShapeShift announced today that it has launched a mobile crypto trading app for iOS and Android.  The "self-sovereign finance" company launched the app Wednesday, which allows users to buy and sell Bitcoin as well as other digital assets from their smartphone, while retaining control of the keys to their assets. ShapeShift advertises that its users in 120 countries, including the US, can buy a plethora of crypto-assets in addition to holding ERC-20 tokens.  Our new...

    NewsBusiness
    2 min read
    Forkast.News Staff
  • Ethereum: the digital canvas. Image: Shutterstock

    Vitalik Buterin creates digital art on Ethereum platform Cryptograph

    An Ethereum-based digital art auction is set to go live on July 8, featuring exclusive artworks by popular cryptocurrency personalities. The auction will take place on a newly launched auction platform called Cryptograph, that has a social element built in. Cryptograph, which launched on June 6, is a platform for auctioning its own type of digital artworks, eponymously called Cryptographs. Ownership of the artworks will be stored as unique digital collectibles, known as non-fungible tokens (NFTs...

    NewsBusiness
    3 min read
    Greg Thomson
  • Shapeshift CEO Erik Voorhees talks about how Bitcoin can replace the dollar: Image: Shutterstock.

    Erik Voorhees: Bitcoin will replace the Fed’s 'pre-mined' dollar

    The Fed’s ability to print money out of thin air makes the US dollar equivalent to a pre-mined cryptocurrency, said Shapeshift CEO Erik Voorhees, speaking at Consensus 2020 on May 11. Referring to the Fed’s decision to print money in response to the coronavirus shutdown, Voorhees agreed that money printing was the equivalent of a pre-mine in crypto terms. Voorhees said:  “It’s a pre-mine that isn’t stated up front in the whitepaper. It’s a pre-mine that’s ongoing, and no one is clear on how long...

    NewsBusiness
    3 min read
    Greg Thomson
  • Synthetix creates DeFi derivatives

    Synthetix: A platform for trading Ethereum-based DeFi derivatives

    I started my career working in structured products, which are complex derivatives, often matched with cash investments (bonds). We liked to joke that we sold people math equations. The reality wasn’t far from that. Why am I telling you this? This week we’re looking at Synthetix, which describes itself as a “decentralized synthetic asset platform that provides on-chain exposure to real-world currencies, commodities, stocks, and indices.” That sounds like a math equation in itself. Before moving o...

    NewsDeFi
    9 min read
    Colin Platt

  • MakerDAO: How to be your own pawnshop

    MakerDAO has a lot of skeptics. While most of these critics never bothered to actually try it, they’re all too happy to tell people that it’s “too complicated.” With the DAI Savings Rate moving up to 6% annually this week, some people  are even calling it a Ponzi scheme, and worse. Classy. Maybe they’re too harsh, so let’s get to the bottom of this. Pawning the family jewels For anyone that has never pawned anything in their privileged lives, here’s how you do it. Let’s say you’ve got something...

    NewsDeFi
    7 min read
    Colin Platt
  • A Bithumb investor's shares have been seized. Image: Shutterstock.

    Bad news for Bithumb: Government slams Korean exchange with massive surprise tax

    Arguably the worst year for South Korea’s crypto exchange market just got even worse. The National Tax Service just told Bithumb, South Korea’s second biggest cryptocurrency trading platform, to pay $67 million in additional taxes. The regulatory agency ordered Bithumb was to pay the extra tax to cover withdrawals it processed for foreign users, according to reports from local mainstream media outlets.  “This is significant as Bithumb, like many other Korean exchanges, is suffering from loss rig...

    NewsBusiness
    2 min read
    Joseph Young

  • Better blockchain-accounting software for bean counters

    Accountants, rejoice! Here's a way to handle your clients’ crypto assets on tax returns. (Everyone else can go home.) The distinguished media giant has joined forces with cryptocurrency accounting firm Verady, to build a new feature that helps organize client’s digital assets. The tool, integrated into GoSystem Tax RS, is designed to help users track their cryptocurrency trades for 2019 — allowing them to accurately report the trades on their tax returns. A growing need This is a fairly big deal...

    NewsCoins
    3 min read
    Nicholas Marinoff

  • Orchid's decentralized VPN network set to go live

    Orchid is blooming. The company, an incentivized, peer-to-peer privacy network, announced today that its app, network, and native OXT token will be launching the first week of December. The company essentially allows people to create their own virtual private network configurations. Since Orchid users can set up "multi-hop" configurations that run through multiple providers, they don't have to rely on any one, centralized VPN service. Its protocol provides what the company says is increased anon...

    NewsCoins
    3 min read
    Jeff Benson
  • IMAGE: Unsplash

    ShapeShift releases FOX token, enables commission-free trading

    In a push to further decentralize cryptocurrency trading, the Erik Voorhees-led crypto exchange ShapeShift today launched its own token, FOX, which can be used for limited, commission-free crypto trading on its platform. Starting today, the Switzerland-registered exchange plans to distribute free FOX tokens that will enable users to conduct free trades on its platform. Specifically, each user on ShapeShift’s new platform will get 100 FOX tokens, and each token will allow them to conduct $10-wort...

    NewsCoins
    3 min read
    Rakesh Sharma