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Get an overview of Holdex and our current focus.

• Holdex Home: Get an overview of Holdex and our current focus.
• About Holdex: Learn about the Holdex mission, team, and long-term vision.
• AI: How Holdex designs and ships production AI products with founders.
• Fintech: Institutional DeFi and fintech infrastructure built with founders.
• Works: AI products, DeFi protocols, blockchain infrastructure, and institutional fintech built end to end with the founders rewriting their industries.
• Insights: Guides, announcements, and product perspectives from the Holdex team.
• Jobs: Open roles to help build our decentralized future.
• People: The team, partners, and advisors behind Holdex.
• Events: Upcoming and past blockchain and Web3 events where the Holdex team will be.
• Schedule a Meeting: Book a 30-minute call with the Holdex team to discuss what you are building.

Insights

Guides, announcements, and product perspectives on building in Web3 and AI.

• Cold messages don't start partnerships. Introductions do. (Markdown): What six months of direct outreach taught us about how founders actually find partners.
• Credentials answer the wrong question (Markdown): What to look for in a technical partner before the first conversation.
• Your content audience and your engagement list are not the same (Markdown): Two separate questions behind a social strategy that generates leads.
• How we run Holdex on GitHub and AI agents (Markdown): Every contract, process, and HR record lives in a repository. AI agents execute on top of it.
• Why your AI demo is not a product (Markdown): The model is the easy part. Everything else is why most AI startups don't ship.
• The technical co-founder you don't need to hire (Markdown): Most founders search for someone to write code. The decisions that define your product are not about code.
• We don't talk code in discovery (Markdown): Why we never open with the technical stack — and what we do instead.
• GitHub as the source of truth for client engagements (Markdown): How we manage client relationships with the same Goals, Problems, and specs we use to ship code.
• The real cost of building in-house (Markdown): The engineering bill is the smallest line item — what founders actually lose when they try to hire their way to a product.
• The Spec That Shrinks: How We Document as We Build (Markdown): A spec that shrinks with every PR is documentation that never goes stale.
• How we built a viral hiring platform on GitHub (Markdown): How we turned GitHub issues into a self-distributing job application system with no ATS, no paid boards, and no recruitment fees.
• What five months of social data taught us about growing a Web3 brand (Markdown): Impressions can grow 5× while your follower count barely moves. Here is what the gap reveals.
• Clarification of Non-Affiliation with "Holdex Finance" (Markdown): Official notice regarding the distinction between Holdex.io and unrelated projects. Holdex Limited is not responsible for Holdex Finance activity.
• AI: Amazing Helper, Terrible Leader (Markdown): Why Complex Software Still Needs Humans
• Top Web3 Security Auditors (Markdown): Navigating the Web3 Security Landscape and Unveiling Top Auditors' Unique Approaches
• 🐙 Github: How we use it (Markdown): Our hidden gem that turbocharges Holdex operations!
• Services (Markdown): We provide bespoke solutions to help your company address all the biggest challenges in web3
• Perks for startups (Markdown): Partner with Holdex to access deals and perks to grow or start your startup.
• Uniswap V3 & staking (Markdown): Learn about the new changes introduced to Uniswap V3
• Curated Crypto and Web3 events in Hong Kong (Markdown): This is a curated list of the events recommended by our team.
• Clearpool Prime - User Guide (Markdown): Discover Clearpool Prime protocol features in action and get familiar with web app interface
• What is ERC-20 token standard? (Markdown): The most popular token standard on Ethereum and other EVM compatible chains.
• Join Web3 competition in Bahamas (Markdown): Holdex to become a partner of Finoverse to support the web3 competition for the upcoming D3 Bahamas event
• For Startups (Markdown): Learn about our partnership recipe that empowers the company success
• Clearpool Mainnet is live! (Markdown): Grab your stablecoins and start earning high rewards with the first borrowing pools on Clearpool
• Understanding Custonomy product (Markdown): Blockchain technology is very secure, however, the way some companies manage the keys is not.
• How to stake tokens with Uniswap v3 staking program (Markdown): Complete guide on how implement staking of your Uniswap V3 Staking program
• Are all your friends getting rich with NFT's? (Markdown): Discover more insights from the Holdex community.
• Guide on how to launch your token (aka TGE) (Markdown): The actual scope of work for the token generation event
• How to create a Uniswap V3 staking program (Markdown): Learn how to configure and deploy your own Uniswap V3 staking program
• Uniswap V3 Fee Calculator (Markdown): Discover more insights from the Holdex community.
• Login with Metamask and WalletConnect. (Markdown): Discover more insights from the Holdex community.
• What is ERC20 compatible wallet? (Markdown): ERC-20 wallets guide and a features comparison.
• Liquidity Mining to Launch and Bootstrap new DeFi apps (Markdown): Discover more insights from the Holdex community.
• List of DeFi tokens, apps, and tools (Markdown): Community-curated list of DeFi tokens, tools and apps for beginners.
• What is crypto arbitrage & how to make the most of it? (Markdown): Cryptocurrency arbitrage is a popular way to make money in digital asset markets.
• What is DeFi? (Markdown): Beginners guide to DeF meaning, history, DeFi blockchains and apps. CeFi vs DeFi. The future of DeFi.
• 2020 Crypto's Most Influential people (Markdown): Discover more insights from the Holdex community.
• Yield Farming Concepts: Making Money with DeFi Basics (Markdown): In Part II, we cover the core concepts in Yield Farming, from lending to governance
• Trading vs Yield Farming: Making Money with DeFi Basics (Markdown): This series aims to explain the mechanics behind DeFi's most popular money-making strategy: Yield Farming
• Understanding mStable: a beginner’s guide and review (Markdown): Beginner's guide on mStable protocol, purpose, platform, token and ecosystem.
• Understanding Cream: a beginner’s guide and review (Markdown): Decentralized lending protocol running on Ethereum, Binance Smart Chain, and Fantom.
• Understanding Pickle: a beginner’s guide and review (Markdown): Beginner's review of Pickle Finance platform, purpose, tokenomics and ecosystem.
• Understanding Swerve: a beginner’s guide and review (Markdown): Comprehensive guide for beginners on Swerve's stablecoin DEX.
• Understanding Balancer: a beginner’s guide and review (Markdown): Automated portfolio manager and trading platform
• Understanding SelfKey: a beginner’s guide and review (Markdown): Beginner's guide into SelfKey platform purpose, applications, token and ecosystem.
• Understanding SushiSwap: a beginner’s guide and review (Markdown): Beginner's guide to SushiSwap and new Sushi protocol. Review of purpose, tokenomics and ecosystem.
• Understanding Maker: a beginner’s guide and review (Markdown): The biggest decentralised stablecoin on Ethereum blockchain
• Understanding yEarn: a beginner’s guide and review (Markdown): DeFi aggregator and yield rebalancer
• Understanding Curve: a beginner’s guide and review (Markdown): Extremely efficient stablecoin trading and low risk, supplemental fee income for liquidity providers, without an opportunity cost.
• Understanding Uniswap: a beginner’s guide and review (Markdown): Beginner's guide to Uniswap DEX, purpose, tokenomics and ecosystem.
• Understanding Aave: a beginner’s guide and review (Markdown): This article is a guide to the history and fundamentals behind Aave. We will cover the team and technology behind the project, its vision, as well as its market maturity and the state of its ecosystem.
• Understanding Cardano: a beginner’s guide and review (Markdown): Proof-of-stake blockchain platform
• Understanding Polkadot: a beginner’s guide and review (Markdown): A multichain network that aims to enable true cross-blockchain interoperability
• Understanding OMG Network: a beginner’s guide & review (Markdown): Instant and extremely affordable solution to scale Ethereum network
• Orchid – a beginner’s guide and review (Markdown): If you care about data exchange privacy, then Orchid protocol might be for you
• Understanding Tezos: a beginner’s guide and review (Markdown): Learn about Tezos in simple terms and understand Tezos's background and principles.
• Understanding Cosmos: a beginner’s guide and review (Markdown): Beginner's guide to Cosmos network, purpose, tokenomics and ecosystem.
• Understanding Dfinity: a beginner’s guide and review (Markdown): Beginner's guide to Dfinity Foundation, the internet computer purpose, tokenomics and ecosystem.
• Understanding QuarkChain: a beginner’s guide and review (Markdown): Beginner review of the next-gen, high-speed blockchain network from QuarkChain
• ShapeShift exchange: a beginner’s guide and review (Markdown): A beginner's guide into ShapeShift platform, apps and FOX token
• Understanding Decentraland: a beginner’s guide & review (Markdown): Virtual world where users are owners of their digital life and real world like assets
• Blockpass Airdrops to be Distributed Via Holdex (Markdown): Discover more insights from the Holdex community.
• ExMarkets exchange: a review (Markdown): Beginner's guide to ExMarkets exchange, security, launchpad and policies.
• Understanding Horizen: a beginner’s guide and review (Markdown): Beginner's review of Horizen blockchain protocol security, ZEN token and speecial features.
• Bitbns exchange: a review (Markdown): A review of Bitbns Exchange's trading platform, history, security and fees.
• BitForex exchange: a review (Markdown): A review of BitForex exchange platform, security, fees and special features.
• Understanding Celsius Network: a review (Markdown): A beginner's guide to Celsius Network's platform, token and applications
• Understanding Wyre: a review (Markdown): Beginner's guide to Wyre protocol origin, potential, products and future.
• Coineal exchange review (Markdown): Beginner's guide into Coineal CEX platform, security and launchpad.
• Understanding Aluna.Social: a review (Markdown): Understand DeFi trading with Aluna Social's platform for copy and counter-copy trading strategy.
• Understanding Kyber Network: a review (Markdown): Beginner's guide to Kyber Network, potential, use-cases, KNC token and DAO.
• CoinJar exchange: a review (Markdown): Beginner's review of CoinJar exchange. Security check, crypto debit card features and KYC policies.
• How to install MetaMask (Markdown): Discover more insights from the Holdex community.
• Understanding Pillar: Protecting Your Data (Markdown): Beginner's guide into Pillar multi-chain self-custodial wallet.
• WhiteBIT exchange review (Markdown): Beginner's guide to WhiteBIT exchange features, security, team and policies.
• Unpacking Wirex: a user review (Markdown): Discover more insights from the Holdex community.
• Holdex interview with Scott Cunningham (Markdown): Discover more insights from the Holdex community.

Works

Projects and partnerships built with Holdex.

• Agora (Markdown): Engineering for one of crypto's earliest blockchain-voting protocols
• Amplify (Markdown): Co-building DeFi infrastructure for SME invoice financing
• Canton Network (Markdown): Validator and application development on Wall Street's Canton
• Cicero (Markdown): Co-building permissionless lending with institutional borrowers
• Coins and Skins (Markdown): Co-building a Web3 gaming superexchange and the $SKINS token
• Finoverse (Markdown): Co-building the online event platform for Asia's FinTech and Web3 community
• Holdex Automation (Markdown): The GitHub App that runs Holdex's engineering process from the server side
• Kronos (Markdown): Type-safe backtesting and live trading for crypto algo strategies
• Lumiere (Markdown): Smart contracts and a dApp for tokenised film and fashion collectibles
• Maison QR (Markdown): Co-building a luxury-retail digital layer on QR-code rails
• Nara (Markdown): Co-building a synthetic dollar backed by real-world payment financing
• Noemon (Markdown): Co-building regulated business payments on top of a repeat-founder relationship
• Nostrocket (Markdown): Engineering Holdex's contributions to a Nostr-based coordination layer
• Nuon (Markdown): Co-building the world's first inflation-pegged flatcoin
• Pass Club (Markdown): Building Uniswap V3 staking infrastructure for Blockpass's KYC token
• Pickle Finance (Markdown): Engineering for one of DeFi's longest-running yield aggregators
• Ready Influencer (Markdown): Productising Holdex's KOL motion for crypto projects
• Telegram Client (Markdown): Turning Telegram into a sales and engineering hub
• Thirdweb Svelte (Markdown): An open-source community Svelte SDK for thirdweb, by Holdex
• Wakame (Markdown): A Holdex-built Proof of Attendance Protocol for events
• Web3 Headhunting (Markdown): Holdex's blockchain-native recruitment thesis
• Wizard Browser Extension (Markdown): A Chrome extension that runs Holdex's engineering process on top of GitHub
• YieldNest (Markdown): Co-building DeFi's risk-adjusted restaking layer
• Zebec (Markdown): Backing the streaming-payments thesis at seed
• Clearpool (Markdown): Co-building DeFi's institutional credit network
• Hex Trust (Markdown): Six years of co-building, from custody integration to AI credit intelligence
• Ithaca Protocol (Markdown): Co-building institutional-grade options infrastructure on-chain
• Truflation (Markdown): Co-building the SQL-native data layer for verifiable economics
• Synnax (Markdown): AI-powered credit intelligence
• Web3 Headhunting Whitepaper (Markdown): Hire vetted web3 talent across the globe and streamline payroll
• Hire the Best Web3 Devs (Markdown): Let Holdex help to streamline your global workforce relationships

Jobs

Passionate enthusiasts to build our decentralized future wanted!

• Partnership Lead (Markdown): Own the referral partnerships that drive Holdex's growth.
• Marketing Maestro (Markdown): Marketing Maestro Wanted: Shape the Future of Web3 Adoption!
• Executive Personal Assistant (Markdown): Free the CEO to create, sell, and partner—while you run everything else flawlessly.
• Rust Engineer (Solana) (Markdown): Work with a team shipping real DeFi apps on Solana. Write performant Rust, own smart contract upgrades, and secure millions in on-chain value.
• Partner (Markdown): Co-lead product initiatives with founding teams and own the engagement end-to-end.
• DevOps Engineer (Markdown): Evolve our culture and infrastructure for faster product delivery and reliable service.
• GoLang Engineer (Markdown): Contribute to the backbone of the next decentralized informational network
• Data Scientist (Markdown): Experienced Data Scientist wanted to build decentralized credit analysis and rating system
• Python Engineer (Markdown): Skilful Python Engineer wanted to build decentralized financial systems
• Product Designer (Markdown): Craft user experiences that solve business problems with great attention to UI details
• Developer Relations (DevRel) (Markdown): Become the voice of a web3 community in top DeFi protocol
• UX/UI Engineer (Markdown): UX/UI Engineer required to craft trendy designs and further translate them into web-native experiences
• Senior Solidity Engineer (Markdown): Contribute to decentralized finance with smart contracts that operate millions in TVL
• Full-Stack Enginer, Web3 (Markdown): Open position for experienced Javascript and Solidity developer
• Actuarial Advisor (Markdown): We are looking for advisor with actuarial experience to help developers design a natural disaster insurance models.

People

The team, partners, and advisors behind Holdex.

• Kirill Samoriadov (Markdown): Leads ecosystem partnerships at Holdex, connecting founders to the blockchain ecosystems that accelerate them
• Angelica Willianto (Markdown): Product engineer and designer at Holdex
• Mark Curchin (Markdown): Co-founder at Holdex, leading product and technology across the studio's fintech and AI portfolio
• Vadim Zolotokrylin (Markdown): CEO & co-founder of Holdex