Ansem

Bio

• Started writing about crypto in 2020 but joined as an investor in 2016:

I first learned about crypto in 2016 through a business class at Georgia Tech. The class, aptly named Emerging Technologies, focused on opportunistic digital innovations that could be the pathways for decades to come. One of the technologies our professors educated us on was Bitcoin. At the time I think most of my friends were skeptical about this “magical internet money,” but we did appreciate how cool it would be to send cash anywhere in the world without relying on any bank or other centralized entity. Shortly after graduation, while working as a Software Engineer, I had a mentor who led me down the rabbit hole of altcoins, and found myself spending a lot of my free time trading whatever spare cash I had on exchanges like Bittrex. Since then, all in the past five years, crypto has matured at a rapid pace – from the slew of ETH ICOs in 2017 and the clunkiness of etherdelta, to the foundational pillars of DeFi like Uniswap and AAVE, alongside the breakout of digital identity with NFTs. Through this, we’ve seen many different narratives play out during the bull market and ensuing bear market, ones that you’d only have seen coming if you have a strong grasp on the pulse of where the market is going.

Occupations

• TCG Crypto; Head of Research (18-10-2022)

Investments

• Was a big proponent of DFK
• Monad: part of the $225M raise (9-4-2024).