Blockchain Industries, Inc. announced the appointment of Rodney J. Garratt, Ph.D., to its advisory board. Garratt is the Mary C. and Maxwell Pellish Chair in Economics at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Prior to joining the University of California, Santa Barbara, Garratt was a vice president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, where he co-led the Virtual Currency Working Group for the Federal Reserve System.