Asymmetric

Investing in Bitcoin DeFi:
- Bitcoin L2s
- Metaprotocols 
- Dapps
- Staking

Portfolio so far: BOB, Bitlayer, Mezo, Fractal, Liquidium, Satflow, Glittr, Satlayer, Arch

General Partner

Held Media

Marketing advisory and fractional CMO services. Clients include Trust Machines, Taproot Wizards, and others.

Marketing Advisor

Kraken Digital Asset Exchange

• Scaled team from 2 to 30 in 3 years 
• Built out data infrastructure, processes, and channel strategy
• Deployed and managed $xxx million paid acquisition budget across 30+ countries

Head of Marketing

Director Of Business Development

Interchange (Acquired by Kraken)

Co-Founder

Uber

Head of ASO (App Store Optimization)
• Optimized Rider/Driver/EATS App and Play store pages for conversion and search discoverability 
• Unlocked tens of millions of incremental installs 
• Localized Rider/Driver/EATS App and Play store pages in 30 localizations 
• Collaboration with Rider/Driver/EATS product teams, marketing, comms, on App/Play store strategy 
• Negotiated App Annie, SensorTower, AppBot, and StoreMaven vendor contracts 
• Drove new product features through close relationships with Apple, Google, and SensorTower
• Scaled ASO from a solo operation to a 3 person team in 1 year

Growth Marketing Manager

ChangeTip

• Ported web experience to a native iOS app 
• Used market, UX, and guerrila research to inform product decisions  
• Developed product integrations with 3rd party social networks (ex: Reddit) 
• Crafted narratives for feature launches, product integrations, and marketing campaigns

Product Manager

Blockchain.com

• Drove the overall product vision, strategy, and requirements that fueled user growth and product evolution
• Scaled the company from 0-10 employees 
• Grew user base from 1M to 2.7M (170%) in 12 months w/ only organic channels

Product Team Lead

Zeroblock (Acquired by Blockchain)

• Designed a cohesive mobile UX/UI experience across platforms
• Managed development of iOS, Android, and web applications
• Propagated our narrative through mainstream press such as: WSJ, Forbes, Fortune, Wired, and TechCrunch, Entrepreneur, and Bloomberg. 
• Grew DAU from 0 to 10,000 in under 8 months

Dan is investing in Bitcoin DeFi as a GP at Asymmetric and a marketing advisor at Trust Machines, Taproot Wizards, Mezo, and others. He’s also a Bitcoin educator with over 850,000 followers on social media and focuses primarily on the Bitcoin DeFi sector. 

He was formerly the Head of Marketing at Kraken, one of the world’s biggest crypto exchanges. He is a serial crypto entrepreneur with two exits (Interchange > Kraken, ZeroBlock > Blockchain.com). In between his time in crypto, he was on the Growth Product and Marketing teams at Uber. He was part of the original 2013 crypto meetup group in SF which was comprised of the founders of Coinbase, Ripple, Kraken, and others.

Dan Held

Leap Wallet

Growth Associate

Marketing and Business Development Associate

Freelance - Copywriting and Marketing

Biconomy

Social Media Coordinator

BudBlooms Pvt Ltd.

Responsiblities
- I was responsible to research and analyze on existing cryptocurrencies.
- Do a thorough analysis of various Crypto native technologies for upcoming mass adoption.
- Looking Blockchains on basis of various network parameters.
- Preparation of reports based on research and findings reached.

DeFi Analyst

I first heard about DeFi in 2021.

Markets were in a euphoric rush.📈📉
Farming was the new gold mine. 🥇

Not this 🌾, but “%” yield farming.

Parabolic returns was common thing for most investors and traders out in the market.

“PONZI” was the first word in my mind after looking into returns.

Back then, all of the DeFi stuff made a little sense to me.
Coming to the present day, it’s more gimmicky now.

But, what lies down the rabbit hole of DeFi is:

→ Money legos
→ Money stream
→ Synthetic assets
→ Asset Tokenization

and the list will become longer with every innovative use case.

The future of money-making gimmicks is "dark".
The future of DeFi is "inevitable".

I am not a gigabrain.
Nor am I an expert in DeFi.
I am a commerce graduate with finance, taxation, and accounting background.

Learning about future tech has always been my area of interest.
DeFi proves to be one of the core areas.

I don’t want to get left behind in this new age of tech.
If it sounds interesting to you, let’s connect with help of the "Connect" button. 📥

I can help you get started on your DeFi project marketing, business development and project operations.

Get your stuff done right 🤝

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