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Jacob Blish

Jacob Blish

Formal First Name
Jacob

Jacob Blish is the Founder of Glacis Labs, a middleware protocol that empowers developers to simplify, secure, and manage their cross-chain applications. Previously, he was Head of Business Development at Lido, the DAO behind the largest liquid staking protocol. He was also Chief Operating Officer of Spruce Systems, where he distinguished himself with an analytics-based focus on driving revenue and meaningful customer adoption. Prior to that, Blish spent 2 years at ConsenSys, most recently as Director of Business Development, where he helped manage business opportunities and strategy for various teams at ConsenSys. He was also Co-Lead and Head of Operations at Alpine, with a focus on driving revenue and customer adoption of distributed ledger technology for clients. Throughout his career, Blish had started, sold and worked a number of startups with a focus on user acquisition and retention.

Professional Experience


Academic History

EARLY CAREER

  • At ConsenSys, he led operations to create new web2.5 products bridging enterprise identity to w3c verifiable credentials and decentralized identifiers.

  • During his time at ConsenSys, he also worked with a small interdisciplinary team to evaluate and structure digital assets.

  • He was a token engineer at Token Foundry, where he worked on system design for clients including Interlinked, Colendi, Ara, and Tectonic.

  • He was an analytics developer at JP Morgan, working with business partners to produce and visualize easily digestible KPIs.

  • He also maintained and improved senior leadership executive reporting, and identifed opportunities for growth and customer engagement.


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