Hackathon Advisors
Advisors are respected founders, investors, and other leaders in the space who help the market discover and back the best builders. Teams gaining traction will be connected with advisors in their respective fields for feedback, distribution, and partner introductions.
Advisors do not judge or pick winners; they are part of the market. Their support helps builders gain the visibility and connections needed to succeed.
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Biography
Anil is the founder and CEO of Delphi Digital, a research-driven firm started in 2018.
Expertise
Most interested in seeing consumer apps that can impact culture. Most helpful with token design and go to market strategy.
Biography
Mason is an investor at Pantera Capital where he focuses on the firm’s venture and growth investments. Prior to this role, he was an investor at Variant and has experience working at several crypto startups including Messari and Consensys.
Expertise
While Pantera is a generalist crypto fund, Mason spends most of his time investing at the intersection of financial applications and payments.
Biography
Tim Draper is a world renowned Silicon Valley venture capitalist known for early, bold bets on companies like Tesla, Skype, and Coinbase. He’s also a vocal advocate for entrepreneurship, freedom and cryptocurrencies, especially Bitcoin.
Expertise
First check in, we invest in anything founder just needs to be exceptional, we dont do copycats, only new bold and crazy ideas, the crazier the better.
Biography
Aric Chang is the GP of Manifold Trading and Managing Partner of Prototype, a multi-strategy fund backing early-stage crypto projects. He began his career advising crypto asset managers on SEC regulations before working with leading venture funds and incubating consumer-focused projects, including Fantasy Top.
Rahul Mahtani is Head of Business Development at Manifold Trading. Previously, he was at Jump Crypto and served on the growth teams at Pyth and Wormhole, after starting his career at CME Group, where he gained deep exposure to institutional market structure and derivatives.
Expertise
On-chain market structure, high-frequency and arbitrage trading, and liquidity provisioning. Most interested in protocols and applications where liquidity design, incentive alignment, and execution quality directly impact adoption. Particularly helpful with early-stage token economics, liquidity provisioning strategy, and navigating the transition from thin to scalable liquidity.
Biography
Max is the COO of Privy, which he's been building since 2022. Before Privy Max spent four years at Brex, and four years in TradFi before that
Expertise
He loves to help teams building in/around stablecoins, fintech, and consumer apps
