Edan Yago

Edan Yago

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Edan Yago is the Co-Founder and CEO of BitcoinOS, the smart contract operating system for Bitcoin, and the Founder and Core Contributor of Sovryn, the leading decentralized Layer 2 Bitcoin trading and lending and asset management platform. Yago is a leading blockchain expert and distributed ledger technologist who has been a regular on the blockchain scene for more than a decade. Earlier in his career, Yago founded several other companies in the Bitcoin and crypto space, including CementDAO and Epiphyte, which provided global remittance services.

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BITCOIN & DEFI CAREER

  • Yago is a seasoned digital currency and Bitcoin veteran who has been a regular on the blockchain scene for more than a decade.

  • He has been a renowned expert in APIs, cloud and distributed ledger technologies to massively optimize payment costs, compliance and speed.

  • He is passionate about Bitcoin’s ever-evolving nature and strongly advocates for expanding its functionality beyond what the asset can already do through the introduction of smart contracts and decentralized apps. 


COMPANIES LAUNCHED

  • Founder of CementDAO, a decentralized tool to unite the fragmented stablecoin ecosystem by making them interchangeable for each other.

  • Founder and CEO of Epiphyte, which developed enterprise software allowing banks and other financial institutions to integrate with Bitcoin.

  • Founding Member of DATA, the international self-regulatory body and standards association for the digital asset industry. 


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