{"id":687101,"date":"2025-08-25T21:25:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T18:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/kalshi-taps-influencer-to-head-crypto-arm\/"},"modified":"2025-08-25T21:25:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T18:25:13","slug":"kalshi-taps-influencer-to-head-crypto-arm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/kalshi-taps-influencer-to-head-crypto-arm\/","title":{"rendered":"Kalshi taps influencer to head crypto arm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"float:right;margin:0 0 10px 15px;width:240px\">\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.cointelegraph.com\/images\/840_aHR0cHM6Ly9zMy5jb2ludGVsZWdyYXBoLmNvbS91cGxvYWRzLzIwMjUtMDEvMDE5NDRiZGUtY2YxZi03OGE5LTg3MTktM2MyNjczYTg3MzVi.jpg\" class=\"type:primaryImage\">\n                    <\/p>\n<p>The self-described university dropout came to the attention of Kalshi&#8217;s executives due to his <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">social media<\/a> activity.<\/p>\n<p><p>Prediction market platform Kalshi has hired digital assets influencer John Wang as its head of crypto in a move the CEO called \u201cbetting on slope.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a Monday notice, Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-ct-non-breakable=\"null\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn:li:activity:7365790439909560320\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"null\">said<\/a> the company had hired the 23-year-old New York-based influencer, who dropped out of the University of Pennsylvania \u201cto pursue crypto\u201d in 2024. According to his LinkedIn, Wang worked as a fellow at Paradigm and an intern at Immutable before co-founding blockchain security company Armor Labs in 2022.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSlope is about high quality thinking, dreaming big, and working mercilessly hard,\u201d said Mansour. \u201cThe more time I spent with John, the deeper my conviction grew. I can\u2019t wait for us to tackle the roadmap we are putting together.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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Prediction market platform Kalshi has hired digital assets influencer John Wang as its head of crypto in a move the CEO called \u201cbetting on slope.\u201d In a Monday notice, Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour said the company had hired&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":687102,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/images.cointelegraph.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/format=auto,onerror=redirect,quality=90,width=1200\/https:\/\/s3.cointelegraph.com\/uploads\/2025-01\/01944bde-cf1f-78a9-8719-3c2673a8735b","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[79722,75422,74863,117,4976],"class_list":["post-687101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-betting","tag-cftc","tag-cryptocurrencies","tag-business","tag-social-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=687101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687101\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/687102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=687101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=687101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=687101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}