Former Cointelegraph CEO Joins Phase as Co-Founder and CEO

The appointment follows the launch of Phase’s Layer 1 blockchain mainnet and AI agent services, backed by $45 million in founder funding.

SAN FRANCISCO, November 11, 2026 — Phase, a technology company building the operating layer for the AI agent economy, today announced that Yana Prikhodchenko, former CEO of Cointelegraph, has joined the company as co-founder and CEO.

She will lead strategy, global expansion and commercial development, working alongside founder Kirill Eves, as Phase scales its decentralized infrastructure for autonomous AI agents.

Prikhodchenko joins Phase after nearly five years at Cointelegraph, where she served as CEO, leading a global team of more than 200 people and transforming the company from a crypto news platform into a diversified group spanning media, marketing, research, acceleration and industry events.

Before joining Cointelegraph, she spent more than a decade in senior leadership roles at major banking and insurance companies, including Allianz.

Phase is building the operating layer for the AI agent economy, giving AI agents everything they need to operate autonomously, from accessing the open web and orchestrating AI models to performing computing tasks and making payments.

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