Alexandr Kerya
I've been in crypto and fintech since 2013, building products in this market the whole time.
It started with a leading Bitcoin mining pool, then building the industry's first cloud-mining product, one of the oldest crypto exchanges, and one of the first card-to-crypto flows back in 2015.
What came next was a crypto journey I feel lucky to have had - the companies, the products, and the people around them that carried the whole market to where it sits today. Today my focus is B2B - institutional clients and ecosystem solutions that bring modern finance into companies and make crypto technology accessible to everyone.
What I do
The work lives where traditional finance meets crypto. I know how to fit crypto into a business without breaking what already works, how to build payment flows that keep compliance teams happy, how stablecoins actually settle, and where regulators draw the lines that matter. Most of it happens at the infrastructure level - the rails, the integrations, and the ecosystems that let the whole market scale instead of staying a niche. Less hype, more plumbing.
Outside the day job I keep building. Some of it is user-safety work - small products that help people understand crypto and use it safely. Some of it is AI. I think the place where AI, fintech and crypto overlap is where the most interesting things are about to happen.
Some things I've built
A few things I'm glad I got to build: a B2B product that went from nothing to over $200M in daily turnover, a staking product that grew from zero to $250M in assets, and one of the first card-to-crypto payment flows on the market, back in 2015. A couple of the teams I backed early went on to raise more than $100M between them. But the greatest value has always been the people and teams I've been lucky to work with along the way.
Writing
I write about what's actually moving in crypto and payments - institutions, ecosystems, market shifts, and the parts that aren't always obvious. It all lives on Substack.
In the press
I'm open to media commentary, and from time to time I share my take on what's happening. A few of the places that have run it: Coindesk, Decrypt, Yahoo Finance, Cointelegraph.