crypto-lending
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Unchained
The Austin company is betting that the people with the most bitcoin want to keep holding their own keys - and still borrow, retire, trade, and pass it on like everyone else.
Alexandre Elkrief
He managed institutional crypto positions on spreadsheets and assumptions, then watched the market blow up. Now he is trying to rebuild the plumbing so it can't happen the same way twice.
Babel Finance
The Hong Kong lender wanted to be the JP Morgan of crypto. It reached a $2 billion valuation in May 2022 - then froze withdrawals a month later after an unhedged trading bet lost roughly $280 million of client money.
VersiFi
VersiFi is a New York-based institutional digital asset trading and lending firm that pairs a low-latency, plug-and-trade platform with high-touch service. It gives institutions a single point of access to OTC and algorithmic trading, direct market access, borrowing, lending, and third-party custody - all wrapped in TradFi-grade compliance and risk controls.
Sameer Shalaby
Sameer Shalaby is the Founder, President and Co-CEO of VersiFi, a New York digital-asset trading and lending firm that brings a TradFi-inspired, regulated approach to institutional crypto. A serial software entrepreneur with 25-plus years in financial technology, he has built and exited multiple companies - Paladyne Systems (acquired by Broadridge in 2011), Cogency Systems, and the publicly listed TenFold Corporation - and ran HazelTree Fund Services as President and CEO before launching VersiFi in 2022.