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Rachid Ajaja
Founder and CEO, Nexera (formerly AllianceBlock)
Rachid Ajaja is the founder and CEO of Nexera, the tokenization and compliance infrastructure company formerly known as AllianceBlock.
He founded AllianceBlock in 2018 with co-founders including Matthijs de Vries. Before moving into crypto he spent about 12 years in investment banking as a quantitative researcher at Barclays Capital, BNP Paribas and Moody's Analytics.
He then led a team of AI researchers at VINCI, where he worked on a smart highways and smart cities project that combined AI and blockchain. He is known for building compliance-focused infrastructure that links traditional finance and decentralized finance, including the NexeraID self-sovereign identity product. He has also co-founded Nuant, a digital asset analytics and portfolio management platform for institutional users.
He writes on DeFi, real-world asset tokenization and AI agents, and has contributed to TheStreet Crypto and Nasdaq. His current focus is Nexera Chain, a compliance-ready Layer 1 blockchain for institutional on-chain capital markets and tokenized real-world assets.
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Latest interview · Oct 13, 2021Rachid Ajaja discusses AllianceBlock's growth and DeFi regulationsWatch the episode →
Key points
- AllianceBlock has grown over 10x in team size, platform capabilities, partnerships, and ALBT token value since the previous interview.
- The company operates on three pillars: regulatory compliance, data infrastructure, and DeFi applications to bridge traditional and decentralized finance.
- AllianceBlock launched liquidity mining services achieving 50 million dollars total value locked with 30 million ALBT tokens locked.
- A fully decentralized bridge supporting multiple blockchains including Ethereum, Polygon, Avalanche, and others was built in collaboration with Hedera Hashgraph.
- The ALBT token is central to the ecosystem, required for bridge transactions and other products with fees designed to remain low.
In their own words
“We believe the two worlds can't stay siloed and will merge in the near future.”
“Traditional finance will have a huge competitive advantage if it leverages DeFi.”
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