Vasily Nikonov is the Founder of Velvet.Capital - a DeFi Asset Management protocol that helps people & institutions create diversified financial products on-chain: tokenized funds, yield farming strategies, and other structure products.
Prior to Velvet.Capital he was a venture builder incubating Blockchain & Crypto startups at LongHash Ventures (e.g., Xanpool and Astar raised ~$50m+)
Vasily was also a Project Leader at BCG and launched digital products for clients (incl. a WealthTech start-up, a SaaS for financial advisors, and other fintech)
He holds an MBA from INSEAD and BSc & MSc in Applied Mathematics from MIPT.
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