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Crypto heavyweights Coinbase and Gemini have each added executives focused on improving and building out their product suites.  Michael Rihani is now leading Coinbase teams dedicated to non-trading products in the exchange’s main consumer app, the executive said in a Wednesday X post.  His official title, via his LinkedIn page, is director of product for banking and payments. These include offerings related to Coinbase Card; USDC and savings; borrow and yield; and payment rails in emerging markets, he notes. Rihani also shared a Coinbase ad as part of the announcement: Rihani formerly spent three years as a Bitcoin-focused director of product at Cash App. He held product manager roles at Apple and Tesla prior to that.  Also this week, crypto platform Gemini nabbed Eric Kuhn as its head of onchain product, Kuhn shared (also via X). He joins from crypto exchange Kraken, where he was director of product for nearly three years. Before Kraken, he was a senior program manager at Microsoft, with a focus on decentralized identity.   “I’ll be working closely with Cameron and Tyler [Winklevoss] to help bring the next 100 [million] people onchain,” Kuhn wrote in a Monday X post. “We believe that onchain is the way to revolutionize money, finance and realize the vision of the decentralized web.”  Speaking of Kraken, the company revealed Wednesday it has chosen Alex Mehrdad to lead its Canadian business.  “He leveraged a background in management consultancy and expertise in building and scaling fintech startups to inspire the strategic vision of our local business, doubling our Canadian monthly transacting users since the start of the year,” Kraken noted in a blog post.   Mark Greenberg had been Kraken’s Canada CEO since October 2022, according to his LinkedIn page. He was promoted internally to create a new asset growth and management unit, the…

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