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Alexandre Elkrief and the machinery of trust
Before he built financial infrastructure, Alexandre Elkrief tried to make the news more trustworthy. From Knowhere to August and Upshift, his career keeps returning to the same awkward question: what should people be able to check for themselves?
Aya Kantorovich and the trouble with trust
She helped build an institutional crypto trading desk, then raised money for her own company as FTX collapsed. At August and Upshift, Aya Kantorovich is working on a question that survived the crash: how much should your money depend on someone else’s word?
Brandon Mulvihill Is Rebuilding Crypto's Market Plumbing
After nearly two decades in foreign exchange, he left Jefferies to separate crypto execution from custody and brokerage. Four years later, Crossover Markets has processed more than $50 billion in trades - and brought Tradeweb into institutional crypto.
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.