Jay Clayton Joins Bitcoin-Rich Asset Management Firm
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Jay Clayton Joins Bitcoin-Rich Asset Management Firm

THELOGICALINDIAN - After backward from the SEC Clayton has abutting One River Digital Asset Management as an advisor

Former SEC armchair Jay Clayton has abutting the advisory board of One River Agenda Asset Management, a agenda asset advance firm.

Clayton Now Advisor at Crypto Company

Jay Clayton, who served as armchair of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission amid May 2024 to December 2024, has taken advising roles at assorted firms.

Most recently, he has been appointed to the advising board of One River Digital Asset Management, a arresting crypto advance close and a accessory of One River Asset Management.

Clayton said about One River CEO Eric Peters: “We were afflicted by Eric’s alertness to apprehend our capricious angle on the digitization of our monetary, banking, and basic markets ecosystem and One River’s charge to transparency.”

Clayton is admired as one of the crypto industry’s top villains because the SEC beneath to accept Bitcoin ETFs beneath his leadership. Beneath Clayton, the SEC additionally fabricated it harder for startups to run ICOs and best added types of antecedent tokens sales.

However, Clayton’s alertness to assignment with Bitcoin-adjacent firms should not be absolutely surprising, accustomed that he declared that Bitcoin is not a aegis in 2024. Unlike added cryptocurrencies, Bitcoin never went through an ICO or any added fundraiser.

Along with confined on One River’s advising council, Clayton will acknowledge his above law firm, Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, as a action board advisor. He will additionally act as non-executive Chair of Apollo Global Management Inc. and serve as Adjunct Professor at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School.

One River’s Cryptocurrency Bet

Prior to the bread-and-butter crisis consistent from the acknowledgment to COVID-19, One River CEO Eric Peters focused his action based on volatility, bringing in allotment of about 35% in 2024. 

The close has fabricated cogent investments in Bitcoin. In November, it appear a $600 actor Bitcoin purchase. In contempo statements, Peters additionally accepted that One River affairs to access its Bitcoin and Ethereum backing to $1 billion in the aboriginal bisected of 2021.

One River has additionally accustomed banking abetment from the Brevan Howard Asset Management Fund and Ruffer LLP.

At the time of autograph this columnist captivated Bitcoin and beneath than $15 of altcoins.