Matt Kummell
Chief Commercial Officer at NEAR Protocol
Matt Kummell is the chief commercial officer of the NEAR Foundation. He was previously the senior vice president of strategy at DCG and a board member of Foundry and CoinDesk.
Current Roles
Past Roles
News Mentions
Kraken 母公司 Payward 正与投资基础设施提供商 GTN 合作，将香港上市股票引入 xStocks，英国、欧洲及韩国股票预计随后上线，仍需获得监管批准。GTN 将为相关代币背后的证券提供执行、托管及记录服务。（CoinDesk） https://wublock123.com/news/kraken-parent-expands-xstocks-to-hk-uk-and-south-korea-stocks-65090
Officially on Mainnet: quantum-safe signing and dynamic resharding upgrades. We designed the NEAR account model with this flexibility in mind: users can rotate their keys to ML-DSA via the NEAR CLI now, coming soon to wallets including @Ledger and @MeteorWallet. Even more secure, even more scala
AI 与稳定币银行基础设施公司 Augustus 完成 1.8 亿美元 B 轮融资，估值达到 10 亿美元，由 Tiger Global 领投，Hummingbird、QED，以及 Nubank、Ramp、Circle 和 Deel 的创始人参投。资金将用于拓展拉丁美洲、东南亚、中东和非洲市场，并开发可提供全天候美元账户及结算服务的核心银行平台。Augustus 此前已获美国 OCC 有条件批准筹建全服务国民银行，最终开业仍需完成监管要求。（CoinDesk） wublock123.com/news/crypto-ba…
"The gap in crypto options isn't demand. It's design." Alexia Theodorou, Director of Derivatives at Kraken, in CoinDesk on our BTC and ETH options launch. https://t.co/uF9kWYQaJQ
NEAR Brings Quantum Security To Mainnet NEAR Protocol (@NEARProtocol) has activated quantum safe signing on mainnet, becoming one of the first blockchains to deploy a NIST approved post quantum signature scheme in production. The upgrade introduces dynamic resharding, allowing the network to scale
JUST IN: Where there's #Bitcoin history being made, you'll find The Bitcoin Historian. Fmr Coindesk and Bitcoin Magazine Editor @pete_rizzo_ to speak at Bitcoin Treasuries Conference this September 28 in New York City. Here we go 🚀
"A bitcoin 'volmageddon' may be brewing, key indicator suggests" BVIV Index in CoinDesk today https://www.coindesk.com/daybook-us/2026/07/20/a-bitcoin-volmageddon-may-be-brewing-key-indicator-suggests
BVIV at 38% — the floor of a zone that preceded $BTC dropping $74K→$60K in under a week last May. Implied vol this compressed is historically mean-reverting. Long BTC near $64K without hedging is an asymmetric risk position. via CoinDesk
The Next Crypto to Explode: BlockDAG, Hyperliquid, Bittensor, & Near Protocol Are Ready to Soar
MAINNET UPGRADE Quantum-safe signing is now live on NEAR mainnet. This makes NEAR one of the first blockchains with a NIST-approved post-quantum signature scheme in production. The upgrade also launches dynamic resharding, so NEAR Protocol can scale itself automatically 🧵