dan held

Dan is an investor in Bitcoin DeFi as a GP at Asymmetric and a marketing advisor at Trust Machines, Taproot Wizards, Mezo, and others. He’s also a Bitcoin educator with over 850,000 followers on social media and focuses primarily on the Bitcoin DeFi sector. He founded the Bitcoin data tool ZeroBlock in May 2013, which was eventually acquired by crypto data aggregator Blockchain.info. He co-founded The Picks & Shovels in 2017, after spending two years working on Uber's app. The company created institutional portfolio management solutions for the crypto sector. He joined Kraken as part of the purchase, initially as the exchange's head of business development and then as its growth lead.

Dan played a significant role at Kraken as the exchange's growth led to a year of unmatched growth and record-breaking volumes. With its Kraken Financial bank in Wyoming, Kraken became the first cryptocurrency company to get a banking license in the United States. As one of Crypto Twitter's most popular influencers, He will continue to share his crypto opinions and observations. He will oversee the revamp of Kraken's web and mobile user interfaces in 2021, as well as the launch of new fiat on-ramps and the introduction of "new financial products" that He claims will be enormous.