Vadym Nesterenko
Researcher and investor
Projects
- Head of product/growth at Kolibrio, a company building tools and solutions for different layers of MEV supply chain (OFAs, frontrunning protection RPC, telegram trading bot Alfred) (2023-today)
- Founding member of ChaDAO, a research-driven investment DAO (2020-today)
- Product manager at Atomica, a decentralized insurance protocol (2020-2021)
- Product/growth manager at Liquidation Markets, a public liquidations infrastructure (2020)
- Product manager at GEO Protocol, a Layer 2 protocol and a network for instant transfers between CEXs (2019)
- Lead at DeFi Product management community and organizer of Layer 2 events (1,2) (2019-2020)
- While studying at university, I wrote over 150 term papers and more than 10 theses in economics, finance, and law
Selected seed investments
- Metacartel Ventures -- one of the first for-profit DAOs run by founders, operators, and angels
- Brahma Finance -- structured products protocol
- Pods Finance -- options protocol and principal protected vaults
- Mithraeum -- an on-chain strategy game focused on history, politics, and diplomacy
- Drops -- a money market protocol for NFTs
Selected research, writing, and talks
- Organic Growth in DeFi (2020)