Harri Obi leaves Superteam, joins Nuvion as global marketing strategist

Harrison Obiefule, former ecosystem lead of the Solana network's community-building arm in Nigeria Superteam NG, has announced that he has left his role at Superteam. He has now joined Nuvion as senior global marketing strategist. 

The details: Obiefule announced the switch in a social media post on Oct. 31. 

• Prior to moving to Nuvion, he had spearheaded the launch and growth of the Nigerian Solana Superteam community. 
• In the weeks leading to committing fully to Nuvion, Obiefule said he had also consulted for Nuvion as a marketing subject matter expert. 

Dive deeper: Obiefule's addition to Nuvion's workforce follows closely behind the firm's acquisition of stablecoin-based financial services startup Evolution and the assimilation of its core team. 

• Evolution's founder Oluwatimilehin Oluwasanmi confirmed the acqui-hire, suggesting that Nuvion wanted to acquire the expertise of the company's founding team as much as it wanted to acquire the company itself. 
• While Nuvion's product offering is already built around stablecoin rails, the addition of Oluwasanmi and Obiefule points to a move to poach some of the crypto ecosystem's technical experience, operational knowledge and human capital. 
• These would have taken the firm considerable time to develop internally, and assimilating individuals such as these helps it skip a step or two in this process. 

What this means: The move highlights the growing blurring of the lines between traditional fintech and crypto, thanks to stablecoin technology. 

• Ordinarily, a traditional fintech may have considered hiring from the traditional finance sector. 
• However, as payments move further towards decentralization and stablecoins become a bigger part of financial infrastructure, experience in crypto and fintech becomes a valuable asset.