Hi all,
I’d like to put my name up for re-election to the Horizen DAO Special Council.
As a member of the Horizen Special Council since its inception, I’ve had the privilege to witness and participate in Horizen’s evolution in recent years and hope to continue contribute to Horizen as it grows in a more privacy-friendly macro environment. I am based in Australia with many years of living and working in Asia.
Background / Experience
I cofounded Singularity in 2023, an onchain institutional darkpool for trading with privacy, supported by a customized privacy infrastructure stack.
Over the last few years, Singularity has been a core partner to Horizen. It is one of the first privacy focussed DeFi project to build on Horizen and launched its flagship trading venue Darkswap on Horizen testnet.
In 2026, Singularity and Horizen Labs jointly developed an EVM cross chain bridge with inbuilt privacy and compliance features and deployed on Horizen testnet. This is the first compliant bridge customized for Horizen with the goal bringing more liquidity into Horizen ecosystem and forming the foundation for the development of private cross chain DeFi applications. As part of the bridge development process, we reached out to most of the projects under development on Horizen to understand their pain points. This did not only provide insights into how the bridge can better serve the Horizen community but also provided a broader understanding on the needs of the Horizen developer community.
Singularity is backed by top tier VCs including Gumi Cryptos Capital and Nomura’s Laser Digital, bringing more institutional awareness and liquidity to Horizen.
My experience with crypto dates to 2017, initially as a seed/angel investor. I have been following Horizen’s predecessor ZenCash since 2018 and have been an advisor to Horizen for a number of years prior to cofounding Singularity.
Prior to entering this space, I worked in traditional finance in Australia, advising global companies on mergers and acquisitions and public offerings.
What I’d bring to Special Council
- Strengthening links with TradFi: As RWA continue to grow its share in crypto, more TradFi players will continue to enter the space – this will bring more capital, more interest and bigger opportunities if Horizen could capture a share of this growth. I’d like to leverage Horizen’s privacy thesis to seek more TradFi interest in the ecosystem.
- Builder’s perspective: As a privacy oriented builder, I’ll continue to share and drive discussions on what builders look for in a growing ecosystem as well as evangelize Horizen to privacy-orientated developers looking for a home for their projects.
- Singularity and Horizen: Continue to work closely with the Horizen team and ecosystem projects to build out a privacy first DeFi suite of applications and infrastructure.
With a more privacy friendly market and macro environment, I remain optimistic about Horizen’s potential to be a dominant privacy-first ecosystem and look forward to continue to contribute to the Horizen’s growth.