View source for Olaf Carlson-Wee

== Bio ==

* Did his theses on [[blockchain]] technology back in 2013
* Thinks [[Bitcoin (BTC)|Bitcoin]] is being overtaken in innovation by [[Altcoin|altcoins]]. ''"The failure of [[Miner|miners]] to activate [[Segregated Witness|SegWit]] shows that the innovation has moved away from Bitcoin. To me it's a no-brainer. There is no downside to SegWit."''
* Olaf Wee-Carlson was supportive of minting additional [[YFI]] (22-1-2021).

== Occupations ==

*Founder [[Polychain Capital]]
* Was the first employer of [[Coinbase (Company)|Coinbase]]
*[[0x (ZRX)|0x protocol]]; advisor
*[[Numerai (NMR)|Numerai]]; investor/advisor. Backs also prediction data marketplace [[Erasure]] on Numerai; the first marketplace where "anybody can upload predictions, stake them with NMR and build a track record that everyone will trust". (6-10-2018)
*[[StakerDAO]]; [https://www.coindesk.com/tezos-based-dao-goes-live-with-launch-of-stkr-token one of the five] (25-6-2020) council members.
*[[Integral]]; advisor ([https://www.coindesk.com/continuous-vampire-attack-the-amm-wars-are-getting-interesting-with-integral 29-3-2021])

== Investments ==

* Was a investor in altcoins before starting Polychain. Known investments are [[Ethereum (ETH)|Ethereum]], [[Omni (OMNI)|Mastercoin]], [[Counterparty (XCP)|Counterparty]] and [[Nxt (NXT)|NXT]]
*[[dYdX]] [https://medium.com/dydxderivatives/dydx-raises-10m-series-a-1250b7e0e1df?ref=tokendaily&ct=t(RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN)&mc_cid=10f74de992&mc_eid=b9fac0945e raised] $10M Series A led by [[a16z crypto]] and Polychain Capital through Olaf
*[https://medium.com/@hodlpac/announcing-hodlpac-bd4368cb57cb One of] (23-3-2020) the founding donors of [[HODLpac|HOLDpac]].

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