Yoni Assia

Yoni Assia
Born Johnathan Alexander Assia
Nationality Israeli[1]
Alma mater Open University
Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya
Occupation Chief executive officer
Employer eToro
Spouse(s) Mor Assia[2]
Website etoro.com/people/yoniassia

Johnathan ‘Yoni’ Alexander Assia is an Israeli entrepreneur, inventor and founding CEO of financial technology startup and social trading platform eToro.[1]

Biography

Assia obtained a bachelor's degree in management and computer science with the Open University in 2005, and a master’s degree in computer science from the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya in 2007.[3]

In 2003, Assia co-founded CDRide, a startup which developed a system to film people on roller-coasters and wirelessly transmit the footage to a booth where it could be purchased by the rider. The company won several large contracts, including one with Paramount Parks.[1]

Assia was appointed to the board of the Bancor protocol in May 2017.[2][4]

eToro

Assia founded eToro in 2006 together with his brother Ronen Assia and David Ring.[5] The social trading platform enables users to watch and copy the investment patterns of successful users, as well as perform cryptocurrency trading,[6] supporting a range of crypocurrencies.[7] As of 2018, eToro had more than 10 million registered users[8] and had raised US$162M.[9]

Colored Coins

In 2013,[2] Assia invented colored coins, a class of methods for associating real world assets with addresses on the bitcoin network.[10][11]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Dr. Matthew Partridge (2014-05-14). "Yoni Assia: To succeed, you need to dare to fail". MoneyWeek. Retrieved 2018-09-24.
  2. 1 2 3 Richard Kastelein (2017-06-12). "Bancor Adds Heavyweight Advisory Team to their Foundation". The Blockchain. Retrieved 2018-10-08.
  3. ↑ "Executive Profile: Johnathan Alexander Assia". Bloomberg. Retrieved 2018-09-24.
  4. ↑ Avi Mizrahi (2017-05-25). "eToro Founder Yoni Assia Joins Bancor Protocol Advisory Board". Finance Magnates. Retrieved 2018-10-08.
  5. ↑ "eToro overview". Crunchbase. Retrieved 2018-09-24. Founders: David Ring, Ronen Assia, Yoni Assia
  6. ↑ Victor Golovtchenko (2018-02-13). "eToro's CEO Yoni Assia on Trading Cryptocurrencies and the Future of Finance". Finance Magnates. Retrieved 2018-09-24. We have decided to offer physical cryptocurrency trading on eToro.
  7. ↑ Oscar Williams-Grut (2018-06-16). "The crypto boom is like the dotcom bubble but that's not a bad thing: 'Selling crypto now is like selling Apple in 2001'". Business Insider. Retrieved 2018-09-24. Yoni Assia, the CEO of eToro, a social trading platform that supports a range of cryptocurrencies
  8. ↑ Robin Amos (2018-08-22). "eToro signs Premier League giants to bitcoin-backed ad deal". Citywire. Retrieved 2018-09-24. eToro has more than 10 million registered users
  9. ↑ "eToro Raises $100m in Series E Funding". FinSMEs. 2018-03-21. Retrieved 2018-09-24. The round – which brings the total capital raised to date to $162m...
  10. ↑ T. Wassenaar. "Yoni Assia". Github. Retrieved 2 October 2018. He is also the inventor of bitcoin 2.0’s Colored Coins
  11. ↑ Pete Rizzo (16 February 2015). "eToro CEO Joins Board at Bitcoin Startup Colu". CoinDesk. Retrieved 2 October 2018. Assia is credited as one of the originators of the concept of colored coins
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