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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: Fintech, neobank, and digital-asset products built with founders.
• Works: AI products, fintech platforms, and digital-asset infrastructure built end to end with the founders rewriting their industries.
• Insights: Guides, announcements, and product perspectives from the Holdex team.
• Jobs: Open roles for people who want to build production AI and fintech products.
• Events: Upcoming and past industry events where the Holdex team will be.
• Contact Holdex: How to reach the Holdex team for partnerships, help with your product, or jobs.
• Privacy Policy: How Holdex Limited collects, uses, and protects personal data.

Insights

Guides, announcements, and product perspectives on building AI, fintech, and digital-asset products.

• Taking over a codebase you didn't write: What to preserve before an outgoing product team's access and context disappear.
• The same task, 18 times the cost: The hours were real, the output was correct, and the process still had to change.
• Every person on your team is pushing the cart or riding in it: The tell is not talent or seniority. It is whether a person turns a problem into a step or into a rabbit hole.
• The most expensive part of your build is the decision nobody makes: The rate you pay is the smallest variable. The time a decision spends unmade is the largest.
• Flat companies run on rules, not managers: Speed is easy to admire and easy to overspend. The teams that keep it encode their rules before they scale.
• Your growth problem is probably an ownership problem: Why the friction throttling growth usually lives between your teams, not inside any one of them.
• The build-vs-buy call most technical teams get wrong: The right question isn't whether a tool exists. It's where it stops fitting your problem.
• The job title is a filter, not a label: How you name a role determines who shows up — and what they expect.
• Cold messages don't start partnerships. Introductions do.: What six months of direct outreach taught us about how founders actually find partners.
• Credentials answer the wrong question: What to look for in a technical partner before the first conversation.
• Your content audience and your engagement list are not the same: Two separate questions behind a social strategy that generates leads.
• How we run Holdex on GitHub and AI agents: 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: 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: 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: Why we never open with the technical stack — and what we do instead.
• GitHub as the source of truth for client engagements: How we run every partner engagement in a GitHub repo, using the same Goals, Problems, and specs we use to ship code.
• The real cost of building in-house: 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: A spec that shrinks with every PR is documentation that never goes stale.
• How we built a viral hiring platform on GitHub: 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: Impressions can grow 570% while your follower count barely moves. Here is what the gap reveals.
• Clarification of Non-Affiliation with "Holdex Finance": 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: Why Complex Software Still Needs Humans
• Top Web3 Security Auditors: Navigating the Web3 Security Landscape and Unveiling Top Auditors' Unique Approaches
• Services: We provide bespoke solutions to help your company address all the biggest challenges in web3
• Perks for startups: Partner with Holdex to access deals and perks to grow or start your startup.
• Clearpool Prime - User Guide: A screen-by-screen guide to the Clearpool Prime web app, from lending into pools and tracking positions to creating borrower pools and repaying.
• What is ERC-20 token standard?: The most popular token standard on Ethereum and other EVM compatible chains.
• Join Web3 competition in Bahamas: Holdex partnered with Finoverse to support the Web3 pitch competition at the D3 Bahamas event
• For Startups: What Holdex looks for in a Web3 startup, the red flags that make us pass, and what founders gain when we partner.
• Understanding Custonomy product: Blockchain technology is very secure, however, the way some companies manage the keys is not.
• How to stake tokens with Uniswap v3 staking program: How liquidity providers stake Uniswap v3 position NFTs into an incentive program, from deposit through unstake, withdraw, and reward claims.
• Are all your friends getting rich with NFT's?: What did it take to launch an NFT collection during the 2021-22 boom? A preserved guide to the legal checklist and community rules that still hold up.
• Guide on how to launch your token (aka TGE): The actual scope of work for the token generation event
• How to create a Uniswap V3 staking program: Learn how to configure and deploy your own Uniswap v3 staking program
• What is ERC20 compatible wallet?: ERC-20 wallets guide and a features comparison.
• Liquidity Mining to Launch and Bootstrap new DeFi apps: How should a new DeFi protocol design liquidity mining? A February 2021 analysis of Compound, Yearn, and Curve that called the vote-locking shift.
• List of DeFi tokens, apps, and tools: Community-curated list of DeFi tokens, tools and apps for beginners.
• What is crypto arbitrage & how to make the most of it?: Cryptocurrency arbitrage is a popular way to make money in digital asset markets.
• What is DeFi?: Beginners guide to DeFi meaning, history, DeFi blockchains and apps. CeFi vs DeFi. The future of DeFi.
• Yield Farming Concepts: Making Money with DeFi Basics: In Part II, we cover the core concepts in Yield Farming, from lending to governance
• Trading vs Yield Farming: Making Money with DeFi Basics: 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: What the meta-stablecoin experiment taught, and how a DeFi protocol ends on purpose.
• Understanding Cream: a beginner’s guide and review: How Cream Finance's no-audit stance and yield-on-yield design played out across three 2021 exploits.
• Understanding Pickle: a beginner’s guide and review: What our 2020 Pickle Finance review got right, what it missed, and the APY math that still holds.
• Understanding Swerve: a beginner’s guide and review: What the cleanest fair-launch experiment of DeFi summer proved about forks, teams, and staying power.
• Understanding Balancer: a beginner’s guide and review: Automated portfolio manager and trading platform, from the 2020 Bronze release to veBAL, v3, and the 2025 exploit
• Understanding SelfKey: a beginner’s guide and review: Beginner's guide into SelfKey platform purpose, applications, token and ecosystem.
• Understanding SushiSwap: a beginner’s guide and review: Beginner's guide to SushiSwap: the vampire-mining launch, the Chef Nomi saga, and where the protocol stands in 2026.
• Understanding Maker: a beginner’s guide and review: The protocol behind DAI, the first major decentralized stablecoin on Ethereum, and its 2024 rebirth as Sky with USDS and SKY
• Understanding yEarn: a beginner’s guide and review: DeFi yield vaults, from Andre Cronje's solo experiment to a contributor-run protocol
• Understanding Curve: a beginner’s guide and review: Extremely efficient stablecoin trading and supplemental fee income for liquidity providers, from seven pools in 2020 to hundreds today.
• Understanding Uniswap: a beginner’s guide and review: Beginner's guide to Uniswap DEX: the constant product AMM, UNI tokenomics, and the road from v1 to v4 and UNIfication.
• Understanding Aave: a beginner’s guide and review: This article is a guide to the history and fundamentals behind Aave, from the ETHLend days to the v4 hub-and-spoke era. We cover the team and technology behind the project, its vision, its market maturity, and the state of its ecosystem.
• Understanding Cardano: a beginner’s guide and review: A 2020 review of Cardano covering the Ouroboros proof-of-stake protocol, ADA tokenomics, and the three organizations behind the project.
• Understanding Polkadot: a beginner’s guide and review: A multichain network that aims to enable true cross-blockchain interoperability
• Understanding OMG Network: a beginner’s guide & review: A 2020 review of the OMG Network, covering how Plasma moves Ethereum transactions to a child chain and what role the OMG token plays.
• Orchid – a beginner’s guide and review: If you care about data exchange privacy, then Orchid protocol might be for you
• Understanding Tezos: a beginner’s guide and review: Learn about Tezos in simple terms and understand Tezos's background and principles.
• Understanding Cosmos: a beginner’s guide and review: Beginner's guide to Cosmos network, purpose, tokenomics and ecosystem.
• Understanding Dfinity: a beginner’s guide and review: Beginner's guide to Dfinity Foundation, the internet computer purpose, tokenomics and ecosystem.
• Understanding QuarkChain: a beginner’s guide and review: Beginner review of the next-gen, high-speed blockchain network from QuarkChain
• ShapeShift exchange: a beginner’s guide and review: A beginner's guide to ShapeShift, from Swiss exchange to self-custody DAO, and the FOX token
• Understanding Decentraland: a beginner’s guide & review: Virtual world where users are owners of their digital life and real world like assets
• Blockpass Airdrops to be Distributed Via Holdex: A 2020 announcement of Blockpass running its PASS token airdrops through Holdex, preserved as a record of a partnership dating to 2018.
• ExMarkets exchange: a review: A 2020 review of the ExMarkets exchange: security, launchpad, and policies.
• Understanding Horizen: a beginner’s guide and review: Beginner's review of Horizen blockchain protocol security, ZEN token and speecial features.
• Bitbns exchange: a review: A review of Bitbns Exchange's trading platform, fees, the reported 2022 breach, and where it stands in 2026.
• BitForex exchange: a review: Our 2020 BitForex review, rewritten after the 2024 withdrawal freeze to re-run its own checklist against the outcome.
• Understanding Celsius Network: a review: A post-mortem of our 2020 Celsius review, rewritten after the collapse, the bankruptcy, and the founder's fraud conviction.
• Understanding Wyre: a review: A 2020 review of the Wyre payments platform, its origins and products.
• Coineal exchange review: A 2020 review of the Coineal CEX platform, its security and launchpad.
• Understanding Aluna.Social: a review: A 2020 review of Aluna Social's platform for copy and counter-copy trading.
• Understanding Kyber Network: a review: What Kyber's two reinventions and the 2023 KyberSwap exploit teach founders about surviving in DeFi.
• CoinJar exchange: a review: Our 2020 review of the CoinJar exchange: security, the crypto debit card, and KYC.
• How to install MetaMask: Install the MetaMask extension or mobile app and set up your first Ethereum wallet
• Understanding Pillar: Protecting Your Data: A 2020 review of Pillar's V1 multi-chain self-custodial wallet.
• WhiteBIT exchange review: Our 2020 review of WhiteBIT's features, security, team and policies.
• Unpacking Wirex: a user review: Did Wirex live up to its hype in 2020? A firsthand guest review of the signup, fees, and Cryptoback rewards on its crypto-friendly Visa card.
• Holdex interview with Scott Cunningham: A 2020 video interview where Scott Cunningham asks Holdex CEO Vadim Zolotokrylin how the company started, what it solves, and where it was headed.

Works

Projects and partnerships built with Holdex.

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

Jobs

Open roles for people who want to build production AI and fintech products.

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

• John Gist: Partner at Holdex
• Kirill Samoriadov: Leads ecosystem partnerships at Holdex, connecting founders to the blockchain ecosystems that accelerate them
• Mark Curchin: Co-founder at Holdex, leading product and technology across the studio's fintech and AI portfolio
• Vadim Zolotokrylin: CEO & co-founder of Holdex