Olaf Carlson-Wee is the founder and CEO of Polychain Capital, a premier cryptocurrency financial firm working with entrepreneurs, investors, and businesses to accelerate the global adoption of cryptocurrency. Olaf is the former Head of Risk at Coinbase, the largest digital asset exchange in the United States, where he was hired as the first employee. He received a civilian award from Homeland Security for technical analysis of the blockchain in a $10,000,000 cyber crime case, educated the economic advisor to President Obama on blockchain technology, and has given numerous public facing technical talks on private key security and fraud prevention at scale. He received a BA from Vassar College after completing his thesis on distributed networking and financial cryptography.