Anton Golub

SwissAssetDAO

Co-founded and launched SwissAssetDAO, a Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO) in Switzerland with the purpose of enabling crypto-native companies to access Real-World Assets (RWAs). 

Onboarded 100+ members consisting of top crypto, legal, and DAO experts. Leader of the Community workstream and contributor to the Legal and Treasury Management workstreams.

Grew SwissAssetDAO's public profile from a small tight-knight community to one of the most well-known DAOs in Switzerland, and a global leader in the space of RWAs. Represented SwissAssetDAO at numerous high-profile events and conferences. 

Served as a key point of contact for inbound inquiries for the services of RWA advisory and securitization.

Together with legal experts conducted a comprehensive global analysis of DAO frameworks and executed a set-up of the legal wrapper as a Swiss Association. Co-wrote the Articles of Association and Whitepaper, and directly contributed to defining the Treasury Policy and Ethics Policy.

Founder & President

Full Stack VC

Venture Partner

Lykke

LYFFE token

flovtec

Identified lack of liquidity as a missing piece of the crypto ecosystem, seeded the vision of flovtec becoming the leading crypto market-maker. Shaped flovtec’s laser-focused strategy that led to the product-market-fit, executing rapid growth, and achieving profitability. 

Directly contributed to the building & development of flovtec’s trading strategies and infrastructure. 

Served as the key person leading flovtec’s global growth and through my network acquired high-profile clients consisting of leading crypto exchanges, L1s, protocols and projects with billions of $ in daily volume. 

Launched the world’s first market-making investment product, achieved a lifetime track record of 46.20%, with 20.85% for for bear market of H1 2022. 

Successfully led flovtec’s equity fundraising, raising in total of over $6 million over successive financing rounds. 

Member of the Board of Directors (2018-2021), Investment Committee & Risk Committee. 

Contributed to flovtec’s regulatory efforts to achieve the status of SRO-regulated Swiss financial intermediary and asset manager.

flovtec is a Swiss crypto market-maker with the purpose to unlock digital assets by providing liquidity. flovtec offers liquidity solutions to token issuers, protocols, exchanges, brokers, and investment products to professional & institutional investors.

Founder & CEO

TRUST SQUARE

Together with 5 co-founders identified a need and opportunity to build a Blockchain hub in the centre of Zurich, which led to Trust Square becoming at launch the biggest co-working hub worldwide with 30 companies and more than 300 tenants on 3500m2. 

Leveraged my professional network to achieve full occupancy at launch and gain support from key public figures: Ueli Mauer (President of Switzerland), Thomas J. Jordan (Chairman of Swiss National Bank) and Carmen Walker Spaeh (economics director of the canton of Zurich).

Partnered with leading academic institutions (ETH, Uni of Zurich, Frankfurt School Blockchain Centre).

Attracted top crypto projects (Tezos, NEAR, Algorand, CasperLabs, Bittrex, Matrixport) as partners and tenants.

Co-founder & Non-executive Board Member

Co-founded in 2013, with Richard Olsen, the 2nd ever crypto company in Switzerland, with a vision to build a crypto exchange and global blockchain service provider. 

Rapidly scaled Lykke from 2 people, to a decentralized global team of 200+ people, over $1 million in monthly revenues, with 4 business verticals over 13 entities: 
- crypto exchange with 120’000 clients;
- corporate solutions arm (spun-off to Lykke Business) building blockchain products for BNP Paribas, Raiffeisen Bank Switzerland, Emaar, IATA; 
- crowd-funding advisory (spun-off to Blockchain Valley Ventures) supporting leading crypto projects
in the whole life-cycle of the token offering; 
- bespoke OTC and asset management arm serving crypto whales. 

Led teams that successfully executed pioneering crypto solutions: 
- atomic swaps with Coloured Coins; 
- multi-chain decentralized settlement on Bitcoin, Ethereum & Solarcoin; 
- one of the world's first implementations of Lightning Network; 
- regulated security token crowd-funding; 
- market-making for illiquid tokens.

Successfully contributed to Lykke’s equity and token fundraising, raising in total of over $11 million over several financing rounds.

Lykke Corp is a crypto company bridging the gap between traditional finance and Blockchain. Lykke operates a crypto exchange for digital assets and issued the world's first security token using the Coloured Coin protocol which represents companies' shares, tradeable in the secondary market.

Co-Founder & COO

Olsen Ltd

Olsen Ltd is a Swiss boutique hedge fund that pioneered the field of computerized and high frequency trading, a successor to Olsen & Associates founded in 1985.

Quantitative Trader

Manchester Business School

Served as lead researcher in EU-funded Marie Curie project High-Frequency Market Liquidity, one world’s first research projects on high-frequency trading. 

Wrote pioneering research papers: 
- "Overview of High-Frequency Trading" at the time 2nd hit on Google for the key-word HFT; 
- "High-frequency trading and mini flash crashes" cited more than 100 times by leading academics, regulatory, governmental and monetary bodies.

Presented my work at numerous leading conferences & events

Manchester Business School is the business school of the University of Manchester, ranked 2nd in the UK for research and the most targeted by employers, it provides education to undergraduates, postgraduates, and executives across the globe.

Researcher

HM Treasury

At the age of 24, appointed by the HM Treasury of the UK government to serve as Project Leader for the special report "The Impact of Internalisation on the Quality of Displayed Liquidity", which was part of Foresight Project - The Future of Computer Trading in Financial Markets, at the time the largest UK-funded research project with over 150 leading industry experts and academics.

Alliance Manchester Business School is the business school of the University of Manchester in Manchester, England. Ranked 2nd in the UK for research and the most targeted by employers, it provides education to undergraduates, postgraduates and executives across the globe

Anton is an advisor, founding member and Chairman of SwissAssetDAO, and an Advisor & Venture Partner at Full Stack VC. 

Anton founded & served as CEO of flovtec, Swiss market-maker providing liquidity solutions to digital asset exchanges, token issuers & protocols and offering investment products for professional & institutional investors. 

Anton is also a co-founder of Trust Square AG, a pre-eminent blockchain technology hub located in Zurich's financial district. 

Anton co-founded Lykke Corp, a blockchain-powered exchange to trade all assets with zero fees, where he served as a Chief Science Officer. 

Prior to Lykke, he worked as a quantitative researcher at Olsen Ltd (successor to Olsen & Associates, founded in 1985), a hedge fund that pioneered the field of high-frequency trading. As a Marie Curie Research Fellow at the Alliance Manchester Business School, Anton worked on high-frequency trading, market microstructure and flash crashes. 

In 2011, he was invited to participate in the Foresight Project - The Future of Computer Trading in Financial Markets, an international project on algorithmic trading funded by HM Treasury in the UK. 

Anton has also been involved in several research projects backed by the European Union (EU) and was on the Supervisory Board for the BigDataFinance project funded through Horizon 2020. He has co-authored 13 academic papers and two books.

Advisor, Founder and President

Co-founded and launched SwissAssetDAO, a Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO) in Switzerland with the purpose of enabling crypto-native companies to access Real-World Assets (RWAs). 

Together with legal experts conducted a comprehensive global analysis of DAO frameworks and executed a set-up of the legal wrapper as a Swiss Association. Co-wrote the Articles of Association and Whitepaper, and directly contributed to defining the Treasury Policy and Ethics Policy.

Onboarded 100+ members consisting of top crypto, legal, and DAO experts. Leader of the Community workstream and contributor to the Legal and Treasury Management workstreams.

Grew SwissAssetDAO's public profile from a small tight-knight community to one of the most well-known DAOs in Switzerland, and a global leader in the space of RWAs. Represented SwissAssetDAO at numerous high-profile events and conferences. 

Served as a key point of contact for inbound inquiries for the services of RWA advisory and securitization.

US Dollar Stablecoins hit $230 billion - 1,000x Bigger Than EUR Stablecoins 

Dollar stablecoin market just smashed through $230 billion.

That’s 1,000x bigger than all euro stablecoins combined.

Let that sink in!

USDT: $144 billion
USDC: $59 billion

Every euro stablecoin combined? 

$230 million. 

Irrelevant.

Circle and Tether are absolutely crushing it.

And I’ll tell you why - because I’ve lived it.

I built a crypto exchange.
I built a crypto market maker.
I know how stablecoins are actually used.

Over 90% of stablecoin volume is professional flow:

- Prop traders
- Market makers
- Liquidity rebalancing
- Cross-exchange arbitrage

None of that comes from retail payments.

Retail use is a MYTH.

Here’s the truth:

Tether dominates because it’s:

- fast 
- profitable
- understands its users.

Tether earns billions in yield.
Tether holds $102 billion in U.S. Treasuries, 
Tether runs most profitable business in crypto.

And no—Tether will NEVER comply with MiCA.

MiCA demands 60% of reserves in fragile EU banks. 

Tether has 0.06% in bank deposits. 

It doesn’t need Europe.

Circle is playing both sides.

It created two separate USDCs:

- One issued from the U.S.
- One issued from France (to comply with MiCA)

That’s two tokens, two jurisdictions, two risks.

Same logo, different story.

But here’s the kicker:

There’s zero demand for euro stablecoins.

No liquidity. 
No adoption.
No trading pairs. 

And worse—no working infrastructure to scale.

Startups keep launching euro stablecoins focused on retail payments.

That’s a joke.

They’re solving a microscopic problem no one has.

Real use case is managing professional liquidity.

And I haven’t seen a single new stablecoin startup doing it right.

Tether and Circle dominate because they understand this.

And now?

Next evolution = yield-bearing stablecoins.

Where users finally earn a share of that massive treasury yield.

But here’s the challenge:

Offer yield—and you might be a financial security.

That’s the legal line no one wants to cross.

Yet.

Meanwhile?

Tether keeps printing money.
Circle scales with regulators.
Dollar stablecoins keep growing.

Euro stablecoins?

Dead on arrival. 

Think euro stablecoins still have a shot? 

Or is it game over?

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Global Executive | 4x Founder | Crypto & Web3 Expert | Since 2013 in Crypto

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