Joseph Charom’s former BlackRock digital asset executive has been released Ethereum Finance Company Sharplink Games As CO-CEO, the company announced on Friday.
Having helped launch BlackRock’s Bitcoin and Ethereum ETFS, Chalom led the financial giant’s strategy on digital assets as managing director and head of strategic ecosystem partnerships.
“After helping me lead my digital asset strategy for 20 years at BlackRock, I started a new chapter. I joined Sharplink Gaming as CO-CEO,” he posted to X.
With the addition of Chalom, current Sharplink CEO Rob Phythian begins to move into the role of president.
After helping me lead my digital asset strategy for 20 years at BlackRock, I’m starting a new chapter.
I joined @sharplinkgaming as co-CEO.
This is why.
At BlackRock, I helped launch:
-IBIT – The world’s largest Bitcoin ETP
-ETHA – The world’s largest Ethereum ETP
– Bids – …– Joseph Charom (@joechalom) July 25, 2025
“Global executives have had the kind of impact that Joseph unlocked the institutional adoption of digital assets and pioneered a strategic entry into the BlackRock space,” said Joseph Lubin, chairman and CEO of Sharplink, Consensys, in a statement. “His decision to join Sharplink is to strongly examine ETHERESURY strategy and Ethereum’s vision to drive profound and transformative change across the global digital economy.”
(Disclosure: Consensy is One of 22 investors Editorially independent Decryption.))
With Chalom driven, Sharplink continues its mission to add shareholder value over the long term. Ethereum is used as a productive asset through staking, retours and other yield strategies.
The company that owns over 360,000 ETH for over $1.3 billion has almost acquired it Last week’s 80,000 ETH That’s when the Ministry of Finance is built. recently Detailed plans to raise up to $6 billion It aims to promote more ETH purchases through stock sales.
“We are building a bridge between institutional capital and Ethereum and native yields, surrounded by a single equity,” Charom posted. “The assets are ETH and the ticker is SBET.”
Sharplink Gaming shares today fell more than 6% to $21.89, extending losses to more than 31% in the last five days of trading According to Google Finance.
