Olaf Carlson-Wee
From CryptoWiki
Bio
- Did his theses on blockchain technology back in 2013
- Thinks Bitcoin is being overtaken in innovation by altcoins. "The failure of miners to activate 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
- 0x protocol; advisor
- 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; one of the five (25-6-2020) council members.
- Integral; advisor (29-3-2021)
Investments
- Was a investor in altcoins before starting Polychain. Known investments are Ethereum, Mastercoin, Counterparty and NXT
- dYdX raised $10M Series A led by a16z crypto and Polychain Capital through Olaf
- One of (23-3-2020) the founding donors of HOLDpac.
