Web3 Summit

Olaf Carlson-Wee

Olaf is the Founder and CIO of Polychain Capital. Olaf was formerly the Head of Risk and first employee at Coinbase, the first billion-dollar cryptocurrency company. He received a civilian award from Homeland Security for technical analysis of the blockchain in a $10,000,000 cyber crime case and has a patent pending for the Bitcoin Host Computer System, a multi-authorization bitcoin storage mechanism. Olaf also educated the economic advisor to President Obama on blockchain technology and has given numerous public facing technical talks on private key security and fraud prevention at scale. He holds a B.A. from Vassar College.