Hackathon Advisors
Advisors are respected founders, investors, and other leaders in the space who help the market discover and back the best builders. Teams gaining traction will be connected with advisors in their respective fields for feedback, distribution, and partner introductions.
Advisors do not judge or pick winners; they are part of the market. Their support helps builders gain the visibility and connections needed to succeed.
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Biography
Alon Cohen is the co-founder of pump.fun, a revolutionary platform which enables anyone to create free, fairly launched & instantly tradeable tokens on Solana. Pump fun is one of the fastest companies in history to achieve $500M in Revenue and continues to generate millions in daily Revenue due to its expansive ecosystem of traders, creators & high-potential opportunities.
Expertise
Expertise includes deep product & user intuition within the pump fun ecosystem, with methodical precision & critical thinking when it comes to leadership and product/protocol innovation. Alon boasts a plethora of skills in business and leadership. He seeks innovation & ultimately massive growth for pump.fun.
Biography
Anil is the founder and CEO of Delphi Digital, a research-driven firm started in 2018.
Expertise
Most interested in seeing consumer apps that can impact culture. Most helpful with token design and go to market strategy.
Biography
Mason is an investor at Pantera Capital where he focuses on the firm’s venture and growth investments. Prior to this role, he was an investor at Variant and has experience working at several crypto startups including Messari and Consensys.
Expertise
While Pantera is a generalist crypto fund, Mason spends most of his time investing at the intersection of financial applications and payments.
Biography
Saurabh is the Chief Investment Officer at Jump Crypto where he leads investments and various R&D efforts.
Expertise
Interested in startups iterating on financial primitives around attention economy or startups upgrading existing fintech stack with stable-coin rails
Biography
Polymarket intern for five years running, inventor of the martingale strategy.
Expertise
Prediction markets, live betting, memes
Biography
Tim Draper is a world renowned Silicon Valley venture capitalist known for early, bold bets on companies like Tesla, Skype, and Coinbase. He’s also a vocal advocate for entrepreneurship, freedom and cryptocurrencies, especially Bitcoin.
Expertise
First check in, we invest in anything founder just needs to be exceptional, we dont do copycats, only new bold and crazy ideas, the crazier the better.
Biography
Mert is the co-founder and CEO of Helius, a core infrastructure provider in the Solana ecosystem. He works closely with teams building and scaling high-performance, production-grade on-chain applications. Specialized in shitposting.
Expertise
Solana infrastructure and developer tooling. Most helpful with system architecture, performance and reliability at scale, and building consumer and DeFi applications that can handle real usage.
Biography
Peter Dimitrakos is Senior Asset Listings lead at Kraken, one of the longest-standing global crypto exchanges. He has been with Kraken’s asset listings team since 2018, working on bringing new digital assets live and building relationships with projects, VCs, and ecosystem partners.
Expertise
Digital asset evaluation and listings strategy. Most helpful with project onboarding, and navigating exchange listing requirements. Focused on assets that meet Kraken’s standards for compliance, liquidity, and market integrity.
Biography
Sasha is a Portfolio Manager and Co-Head of Advisory Services at Arca, focused on identifying niche growth sectors within the digital assets ecosystem. Sasha has been at Arca since the firm’s inception, and carries over 8 years of professional asset management experience.
Expertise
"Areas of expertise: Decentralized finance, NFTs, Sports and Gaming Verticals of interest: Anything that operates as a cash flowing business utilizing digital assets Stage Preference: All stages, there are 50 names that matter right now. Would like to make that 5,000. Can be early stage startup or late stage inclusion"
Biography
Aric Chang is the GP of Manifold Trading and Managing Partner of Prototype, a multi-strategy fund backing early-stage crypto projects. He began his career advising crypto asset managers on SEC regulations before working with leading venture funds and incubating consumer-focused projects, including Fantasy Top.
Rahul Mahtani is Head of Business Development at Manifold Trading. Previously, he was at Jump Crypto and served on the growth teams at Pyth and Wormhole, after starting his career at CME Group, where he gained deep exposure to institutional market structure and derivatives.
Expertise
On-chain market structure, high-frequency and arbitrage trading, and liquidity provisioning. Most interested in protocols and applications where liquidity design, incentive alignment, and execution quality directly impact adoption. Particularly helpful with early-stage token economics, liquidity provisioning strategy, and navigating the transition from thin to scalable liquidity.
Biography
Max is the COO of Privy, which he's been building since 2022. Before Privy Max spent four years at Brex, and four years in TradFi before that
Expertise
He loves to help teams building in/around stablecoins, fintech, and consumer apps
Biography
Mike Dudas is the founder and managing partner of 6MV, an early-stage crypto venture firm. Prior to VC, Mike was an entrepreneur, founding the fintech company Button and the crypto companies The Block and Linksdao. Mike worked at Disney, Venmo, YouTube, Google and PayPal earlier in his career and has loads of experience building technology companies and products.
Expertise
Early-stage crypto investing, primarily at the application layer. Most helpful with founder storytelling, go-to-market, sales, and navigating early fundraising. Interested in consumer crypto, DeFi, RWA, AI and stablecoin finance teams building real products generating revenue with long-term upside.
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