# Jelena Djuric

> Jelena Djuric is the co-founder and CEO of Noble, a blockchain built for issuing and moving stablecoins natively across the interchain. She started Noble in early 2023 with Stefan Coolican and John Letey after years working across the Cosmos, Dfinity and Celo ecosystems, and after helping found the Canadian Web3 Council. Noble powers native USDC on Cosmos and now connects roughly 50 blockchains, has attracted hundreds of millions of dollars in assets, and raised a $15 million Series A led by Paradigm in late 2024. Djuric's stated ambition is to make stablecoins as easy to send as a Venmo payment.

- **Role:** Co-Founder & CEO at Noble
- **Organizations:** Noble, Canadian Web3 Council
- **Nationality:** Canadian
- **Education:** Honours Bachelor of Arts, Peace, Conflict and Justice Studies and Political Science, University of Toronto, Exchange semester, International Relations, Sciences Po (Paris), Summer program, Peace Studies and Conflict Resolution, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
- **Known for:** Co-founded Noble, the asset issuance blockchain that brought native USDC to the Cosmos ecosystem, Raised a $15 million Series A led by Paradigm, Grew Noble to over $458 million in assets and connections to roughly 50 blockchains

## Career timeline

- **2016** — Program Assistant at the National Democratic Institute
- **2017-2018** — Operations Lead at the Council of Canadian Innovators; Secretariat member for the InterAction Council
- **2018** — Community Manager at DFINITY, entering the blockchain sector
- **2018-2020** — Partner in Global Community at cLabs / Celo
- **2020-2023** — Operations, product marketing and business development at Informal Systems in the Cosmos ecosystem; developer relations and marketing with the Interchain Foundation
- **2023** — Co-founded Noble with Stefan Coolican and John Letey; launched native USDC on Cosmos
- **2024** — Raised a $15M Series A led by Paradigm
- **2025** — Noble surpasses $458M+ in assets and connects ~50 blockchains; total funding reaches $18.3M

## Achievements

- Co-founded Noble, the asset issuance blockchain that brought native USDC to the Cosmos ecosystem
- Raised a $15 million Series A led by Paradigm
- Grew Noble to over $458 million in assets and connections to roughly 50 blockchains
- Co-founded the Canadian Web3 Council, a national advocacy organization for crypto and Web3
- Signed on major stablecoin issuers including Circle, Ondo Finance, Hashnote Labs and Monerium
- Launched USDN, a yield-bearing stablecoin, in the Cosmos ecosystem

## Latest updates

- **2024-11** — Announced a $15 million Series A led by Paradigm to accelerate stablecoin adoption and user-facing products.
- **2025-10** — Discussed Noble as neutral infrastructure for stablecoin transmission on the Epicenter podcast, with the platform integrated across the USDC ecosystem.

## Links

- Website: https://noble.xyz
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/djuricjelena/
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/jelena_noble

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Last updated: 2026-07-16