{"id":63820,"date":"2022-07-02T13:41:41","date_gmt":"2022-07-02T10:41:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=63820"},"modified":"2025-09-06T11:02:56","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T08:02:56","slug":"ignite-ceo-peng-zhong-steps-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/ignite-ceo-peng-zhong-steps-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Ignite CEO Peng Zhong Steps Down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ignite&#8217;s CEO (formerly Tendermint) Peng Zhong has resigned after more than seven years with the company. He has held the CEO post since May 2020.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\\\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\\\">\n<p>&#8220;Today is my last day at Ignite. Thank you for the camaraderie we shared as we built out this ecosystem. It\u2019s been an honor to be a part of this team and this community. I will miss you,&#8221; wrote Zhong.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\\\"twitter-tweet\\\">\n<p lang=\\\"en\\\" dir=\\\"ltr\\\">Today is my last day at Ignite. Thank you for the camaraderie we shared as we built out this ecosystem. It\u2019s been an honor to be a part of this team and this community. I will miss you. \ud83d\udc99<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Peng Zhong (@zcpeng) <a href=\\\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/zcpeng\/status\/1542891986188902404?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\\\">July 1, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async=\\\"\\\" src=\\\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\\\" charset=\\\"utf-8\\\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>In February, the company behind the <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/what-is-cosmos-atom\">Cosmos<\/a> project <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/cosmos-developer-tendermint-rebrands-as-ignite\">rebranded to Ignite<\/a>, because one of the co-founders used the original name for his new initiative.<\/p>\n<p>In 2014, founder Do Kwon registered Tendermint, and in 2020 left the company to launch the Virgo project. In 2022 he regained ownership of the brand for a new firm.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this April, Ignite <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/ignite-launches-a-150-million-accelerator-for-blockchain-projects\">launched a $150 million accelerator<\/a> focused on Web3 projects. Among the partners: Alameda Research, KuCoin Ventures, HashKey Capital, OKX Blockdream Venture and others.<\/p>\n<p>Read ForkLog&#8217;s Bitcoin news on our <a href=\\\"\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\\\" target=\\\"\u201c_blank\u201d\\\" rel=\\\"\u201cnofollow\u201d noopener\\\">Telegram<\/a> \u2014 cryptocurrency news, prices and analytics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peng Zhong, the CEO of Ignite (formerly Tendermint), has resigned after more than seven years with the company.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":63821,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1173],"class_list":["post-63820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-cosmos-atom"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"21","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63820"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63822,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63820\/revisions\/63822"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}