Olaf Carlson-Wee

Olaf is the Founder & CEO of Polychain Capital. He was formerly the Head of Risk and first employee at Coinbase, the first billion-dollar cryptocurrency company. He received a civilian award from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security for his technical analysis of the blockchain in a $10 million cyber crime case and has a patent pending for the Bitcoin Host Computer System, a multi-authorization bitcoin storage mechanism. Olaf also 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 holds a Bachelor's degree from Vassar College.