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

🚀 2 time Founder | Ecosystem Builder | Product Strategist | AI + Blockchain Innovator

I'm the Founder of NothingLabsAI, where we're leading the future of onchain AI agents to transform how investment, grants, and capital ecosystems function globally.

With over 6 years of experience at the intersection of AI, blockchain, and venture ecosystems, I've worked with leading blockchain foundations like Avalanche, Aptos, ICP, Polkadot, and others, building academic and product collaborations, developer communities, and go-to-market strategies.

Currently, I led ecosystem growth at BlockOn Ventures, supporting startups, exchanges, and Web3 infrastructure companies globally.

My passion lies in:

Building zero-to-one products in AI and Web3

Driving growth, partnerships, and ecosystem development

Empowering builders through grants, hackathons, and venture acceleration

Currently open to exploring impactful roles in Product, Growth, or Ecosystem leadership at AI, blockchain, and frontier tech companies.

🌐 Let’s connect if you're building at the edge of AI, Web3, or venture ecosystems.

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