Vadym Nesterenko

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Projects

• Strategic advisor to Kolibrio (2024 - now), a company building tools and solutions for different layers of MEV supply chain (OFAs, RPC, telegram trading bot Alfred)
  • Head of product and growth, Kolibrio (2023-2024)

• Angel investor and product lead at Brahma, a structured products protocol / infrastracture for defi automation (2021 - now)

• Product manager at Atomica, a decentralized insurance protocol / public liquidations infrastructure (2020-2021)

• Product manager at GEO Protocol, a Layer 2 protocol / network for instant transfers between CEXs (2018-2019)

• Lead at DeFi Product management community and organizer of Layer 2 events (1,2) (2019-2020)

Selected seed investments

• Metacartel Ventures -- one of the first for-profit DAOs run by founders, builders, investors

• Panoptic -- derivatives on AMMs

• Pods Finance -- an options protocol

• Mithraeum -- an on-chain strategy game focused on history, politics, and diplomacy

• Drops -- a money market protocol for NFTs

Selected research, writing, and talks

• Product Management in Web3: Experiments, UX & Growth in the Attention Economy (2025)

• Crypto Product Manager’s Playbook: Crucial Metrics, UX, and Community Growth (2025)

• Participants in a DeFi protocol ecosystem (2021)

• Organic Growth in DeFi (2020)

• Product management in blockchain startups (RU) (2020)

• Panel at Layer 2 Meetup: Osaka (2019)

• Panel at Layer 2 Meetup Blockchain Week Berlin (2019)