Lead Developers Leave Overstock’s Medici Project

Overstock has confirmed that Counterparty co-founders and developers Robby Dermody and Evan Wagner are no longer working on its decentralized stock market project Medici.
The announcements come amid a shift in priorities for the high-profile crypto 2.0 project, first announced in October. At the time, Overstock indicated that it had hired Dermody and Wagner after vetting developers of notable 2.0 projects.
Overstock director of communications Judd Bagley indicated that the move coincides with a shift in Medici’s development that will help the company build on a wider variety of protocols and blockchains in addition to Counterparty.
Bagley told CoinDesk:

This post was published at Coin Desk on February 4, 2015.