David Wells is the CEO of Ondo Perps, the equity-perpetuals trading arm of Ondo Finance, where he leads the push to bring leveraged trading of U.S. stocks, ETFs, and commodities onchain with tokenized shares usable as collateral. He founded and ran Enclave Markets, the first Fully Encrypted Exchange, incubated within Ava Labs, after earlier roles at Two Sigma and Paxos. A Harvard Business School graduate and long-time markets operator, Wells has spent his career building institutional-grade trading infrastructure and arguing that crypto markets still hold real inefficiencies for those who can build fair, private, and efficient venues.
Futureswap is a decentralized, non-custodial protocol for leveraged perpetual trading, letting users take long or short positions on crypto assets with leverage while liquidity providers earn fees and token incentives. Built by a small San Francisco team led by founder Derek Alia, it launched on Ethereum in 2020, later moved to Arbitrum and Avalanche for lower-cost transactions, and pioneered an AMM-based design that plugs into pools like Uniswap and Trader Joe. Backed by roughly $13.5M from investors including Ribbit Capital, Framework Ventures, True Ventures and Placeholder, it was governed by the community via its FST token.
Try Your Best (TYB) is a community rewards platform that lets consumer brands turn their most obsessed fans into a measurable, on-chain loyalty layer. Founded by Outdoor Voices creator Ty Haney in 2021, TYB rewards shoppers for participation - reviews, referrals, user-generated content, challenges and purchases - with collectibles, brand coins and access to exclusive drops. Around 200 brands including Glossier, Rare Beauty, Poppi, Urban Outfitters and Saie use TYB to reach roughly two million users, mostly Gen Z women, with the company reporting higher purchase frequency and lifetime value for participating customers.
Re is a blockchain-powered reinsurance protocol - often described as a decentralized Lloyd's of London - that connects alternative capital to regulated insurance risk. Built originally on Avalanche, Re lets stablecoin depositors back baskets of real reinsurance treaties and earn premium-driven yield, while the on-chain design brings transparency and auditability to a historically opaque, intermediary-heavy market. Founded in 2022 by former Cover CEO Karn Saroya, Re has grown to roughly half a billion dollars in total value locked and launched its $RE governance token in June 2026.
Karn Saroya is the co-founder and CEO of Re, a decentralized reinsurance protocol built on Avalanche that connects alternative capital to the nearly $1 trillion global reinsurance market. A Canadian-born, MIT-trained Fulbright scholar, he previously co-founded the YC-backed insurtech Cover and worked as a financial-services consultant at Oliver Wyman before deciding the insurance stack itself needed to be torn down and rebuilt on-chain.

Kevin Sekniqi is a computer scientist, entrepreneur, and investor best known as the youngest co-founder of Ava Labs, the company behind the Avalanche blockchain. A former PhD candidate at Cornell University who dropped out to build, he began mining Bitcoin at age 16 from his childhood bedroom in Brooklyn. After helping scale Avalanche to millions of users and a multi-billion-dollar ecosystem, he transitioned to running a family office focused on investing in and incubating companies tackling tough problems across biotech, nuclear energy, blockchain infrastructure, and quantum computing.