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      Ryan De Souza

      Ryan De Souza

      Head of APAC

      Arbitrum

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      I'm currently part of the partnerships team at Offchain Labs, the company behind the leading layer-2 Arbitrum, where I focus on growing the ecosystem across APAC. Some verticals I'm deeply passionate about includes stablecoins and working with financial institutions and fintechs to leverage the benefits of Ethereum scaling solution to deliver value to their end consumers.

      I started my Web3 journey in Southeast Asia by growing the SGD and IDR-backed stablecoins and payments infrastructure for the digital assets space. I led the stablecoins OTC desk where we facilitated swaps between natively issued SEA currencies stablecoins and USD-stablecoins for institutions. I am also a co-founded Stablecoin Standard, an industry body of fiat-backed stablecoin issuers globally, where I lead ecosystem partnerships focused on institutional adoption of stablecoins.

      Prior to my operating experience in Web3, I was at Scrum Venture, an early-stage venture capital based in San Francisco focusing on investing in early-stage tech companies. I have worked on investment across a range of industries and have a soft spot for early-stage companies in the FinTech and DeFi space.

      In my spare time, I share my thoughts on FinTech / DeFi through my newsletter (https://fintechpulse.substack.com/)

      Twitter:@_ryandesouza

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