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Asaf Meir Built Crypto’s Smoke Alarm. Now the Whole Market Is Getting Wired.
A Goldman engineer found crypto’s missing plumbing and spent nine years building it. His next test is stranger, faster and more public: keeping prediction markets honest.
Anthony DeMartino Is Teaching DeFi to Wear a Seat Belt
After two decades trading through crises, Anthony DeMartino has a blunt proposition for on-chain finance: the future may be decentralized, but it cannot afford to be disorganized.
Sid Powell Put Wall Street Credit Onchain - Then the Market Made Him Rewrite the Terms
A banker built a faster credit market, watched crypto expose its weakest assumptions, and returned with a more cautious machine. Sid Powell's Maple story is a lesson in what survives when finance meets software.
David Wells
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.