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Walt Smith is a partner at Standard Crypto and was previously the executive director of Cyber Fund and the head of venture capital at Galaxy Digital. He graduated from Grove City College.
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Sami Kassab
Sami Kassab is a Partner at Crucible Labs, responsible for researching and supporting the most influential projects on Bittensor. Previously, Sami was a Partner at OSS Capital, focusing on the Bittensor ecosystem. He also worked as a Research Analyst at Messari. Sami graduated from Arizona State University in the United States.
Ken Yip
Ken Yip is Director of product at Messari. He graduated from Cardiff University in England.
John Cahill
John Cahill is Galaxy Digital's Chief Operating Officer for Asia.
Ryan Selkis
Ryan Selkis is the Founder & ex-CEO of Messari, and was previously an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at ConsenSys and a founding team member at the industry's most active investor, Digital Currency Group, and the largest media brand, CoinDesk. He is also working on new ventures and angel investing.
Christine Kim
Christine Kim is Vice President of Research at Galaxy Digital and formerly a research analyst at CoinDesk. She graduated from the University of British Columbia with a BA in International Relations and Economics, and her interests include writing and researching emerging technologies.
Michael Jordan
Michael Jordan is a co-founder and general Partner of DBA and previously was co-head of Investments at Galaxy Digital. Michael previously led Galaxy's efforts on Fireblocks (Series A, B, and C), Tagomi (now Coinbase Instituteal), and Bison Trails (now Coinbase) Cloud), CipherTrace (acquired by Mastercard) and other foundational winners.
Mason Nystrom
Mason is a junior partner at Pantera Capital and was previously an Investment partner at Variant and Senior Research Analyst at Messari. Before Messari, Mason worked at ConsenSys as a Content Marketer focused on marketing strategy for ConsenSys and its portfolio companies. Mason first entered the crypto industry as an Analyst at Gatecoin, the first cryptocurrency exchange to list ether, Ethereum’s native cryptocurrency. Mason obtained his Master’s in Business Management at Hong Kong Baptist University.
Alok Vasudev
Alok Vasudev is Co-Founder of Standard Crypto, Early-stage technology investor. Formerly, Partner at s28 Capital.
Dale W.
Dale W. is the co-founder and CTO of Karsa and has worked at 10Planet, Messari, TruEra (acquired by Snowflake), and Microsoft, and he holds a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Virginia.
Joshua Lim
Joshua Lim is the co-founder of Arbelos and previously Managing Director and Head of Derivatives at Genesis Trading. He previously managed the Spot and Derivatives Trading Desk at Galaxy Digital, and built the Treasury and Over-the-Counter Trading Desk at Circle. Before entering the cryptocurrency space, Josh traded Equity Volatility at Goldman Sachs.