Anton Golub

Chief Business Officer | Crypto & Web3 Executive | Since 2013 in Crypto

You can email me: anton.golub@gmail.com

Anton Golub is Chief Business Officer of Freedx, a next-gen centralized crypto exchange built for crypto newcomers and experienced traders. 

Anton is also an advisor, founding member and Chairman of SwissAssetDAO.

Anton founded & served as CEO of flovtec, Swiss market-maker providing liquidity solutions to digital asset exchanges, token issuers & protocols and offering investment products for professional & institutional investors. 

Anton is also a co-founder of Trust Square AG, a pre-eminent blockchain technology hub located in Zurich's financial district. 

Anton co-founded Lykke Corp, a blockchain-powered exchange to trade all assets with zero fees, where he served as a Chief Science Officer. 

Prior to Lykke, he worked as a quantitative researcher at Olsen Ltd (successor to Olsen & Associates, founded in 1985), a hedge fund that pioneered the field of high-frequency trading. As a Marie Curie Research Fellow at the Alliance Manchester Business School, Anton worked on high-frequency trading, market microstructure and flash crashes. 

In 2011, he was invited to participate in the Foresight Project - The Future of Computer Trading in Financial Markets, an international project on algorithmic trading funded by HM Treasury in the UK. 

Anton has also been involved in several research projects backed by the European Union (EU) and was on the Supervisory Board for the BigDataFinance project funded through Horizon 2020. He has co-authored 13 academic papers and two books.

Advisor, Founder and President

Co-founded and launched SwissAssetDAO, a Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO) in Switzerland with the purpose of enabling crypto-native companies to access Real-World Assets (RWAs). 

Together with legal experts conducted a comprehensive global analysis of DAO frameworks and executed a set-up of the legal wrapper as a Swiss Association. Co-wrote the Articles of Association and Whitepaper, and directly contributed to defining the Treasury Policy and Ethics Policy.

Onboarded 100+ members consisting of top crypto, legal, and DAO experts. Leader of the Community workstream and contributor to the Legal and Treasury Management workstreams.

Grew SwissAssetDAO's public profile from a small tight-knight community to one of the most well-known DAOs in Switzerland, and a global leader in the space of RWAs. Represented SwissAssetDAO at numerous high-profile events and conferences. 

Served as a key point of contact for inbound inquiries for the services of RWA advisory and securitization.

China has been banning crypto since 2013 - Central Bank now says all crypto activity is illegal

I've been in crypto industry since 2013.
I've seen 10 times China banning Bitcoin or crypto.

PBOC says crypto remain illegal in China and all crypto business activities are classified as illegal.

Central Bank says stablecoins fail to meet KYC/AML standards.

China sees stablecoins as high risk for money laundering, fraudulent fundraising, and illegal cross-border flow.

Instead of allowing public to access crypto, China is focusing on CBDC (e-CNY). 

Same as in Europe, China wants to push digital yuan pilots and use in public-sector payments.

Adoption started in streets, not Wall Street.

Ian Weisberger, CEO & Co-Founder of CoinRoutes, observes:

LATAM pays with USDT from phones - normal now
Mature markets follow when revenue shows up
Banking + payments became obvious wedge early

Real usage pulled crypto forward.

From podcast with Demetrios Zamboglou PhD and Ian Weisberger.

 📍 Watch full podcast: youtu.be/5SocNJhdkmk

Educational content only. Not financial advice. No liability assumed, direct or indirect.

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