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track record
Intro
One of the worlds pioneers in blockchain and cryptocurrency since 2013.
Decidated my careeer to innovation in the blockchain industry.
CV
2000-2012 Study of Business, Computer science, Markets, and AI before it becomes considered a serious subject.
Helped manage 2B$ AUM fund. Deep passion for markets, data and accessible economic systems.
2012 Learned about Bitcoin and joined bitcointalk
2013 Discussions about DEX with Dan Larimer and Charles Hoskinson on bitcointalk
2013 December. I work with Charles more on ideas of a Bitcoin chrome extension.
he is one of the first people to send me Vitalik's Whitepaper.
2013 Nxt, Proof of stake launches. I become active in Nxt Pure Proof of stake.
Nxt had a naming system and browser based wallet. Lisk and IOTA came out of the Nxt, in contact with the founders.
2014 March. I visit the Ethereum house in Zug. Through the year work on a Central Exchange with Mathias from Ethereum.
2015 I worked for anonymous DAO on marketmaking of a Stable called Nushares
2015 October. Lykke projects starts. An ambitious Decentral exchange project based on Bitcoin. The vision of Richard was to radically transform markets and banks trade stablecoins. Even in 2023 not close to that vision, but getting there.
2016 April. Nick Szabo joins advisor of Lykke and gives a talk in Switzerland.
2017 ICO boom. Lykke reaches 500M$ marketcap. Within the project I argue for the importance of Opensource
and we should build on Ethereum.
2017 I spent capital on building my own Distributed exchange. Lessons about the importance of Lean cycles, MVP and marketing.
2018 ICO bust. Reflection and ideation of different ideas around my own exchange and blockchain.
2019 I work with 0x, do a marketmaking on the DEX and propose Liquditiy pools similar to Uniswap.
Contributions to Python web3 ecosystem.
2020 I become active in Uniswap, having it known from early days becuase its written in Vyper.
2020 I work on my own blockchain from scratch written in golang
2021 Funding of Vegaswap, an different appraoch to DEX with dynamic curve. Raise 1M$ from 60 investors and learn fund raising.
2021 I helped Olympus DAO and an OlympusDAO fork raise 10M$ from 3000 investors.
Built from end to end with custom funding protocol and discord bots.
2022 Continued to work on Horizon blockchain, and the Proof of asset consensus mechanism.
2023 Active in Stealth launches.
2023 August. start of Openbot
Capabitlies
Startups and ventures. Deep blockchain tech. Funding. Decentral exchange. Ideation. AI. Social trading.
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