Institutional Exposure: Creating Financial Products For Bitcoin Miners

Amanda is the COO of $Naka (Kindly Inc.). Previously she was the cofounder of Second Gate Advisory, Head of Mining at Galaxy Digital, and Director of Bitcoin Mining at Fidelity Investments. Currently, she serves on the board of $WULF (Terawulf).

Co-Founded Luxor in 2018. Luxor operates a Bitcoin mining software, hardware and financial services company. Prior to Luxor, Ethan worked at Goldman Sachs covering the Blockchain and Bitcoin sector.

Emmanuel Montero is the Founder and CEO of Omnes, a Switzerland based institutional Bitcoin mining platform, Omnes provides institutional-grade access to Bitcoin mining hashrate without the need to own or manage hardware. He is also the owner of Terahash Solutions, a top-tier ASIC hosting company based in the UAE. A former U.S. Navy Diver turned serial entrepreneur.

Derar Islim, Ph.D. – Chief Operating Officer, Antalpha Platform Holding Company and CEO, Americas & EMEA

Derar Islim, PhD, is a seasoned financial executive with significant experience in the digital asset industry, building and managing premier digital assets financial services and products globally. Islim’s career reflects a blend of academic rigor and practical experience in high-stakes financial environments. Derar’s leadership at Genesis, particularly during its crisis, showcased his ability to navigate complex operational and financial challenges from execution and governance perspectives.

Derar formerly held the roles of Interim CEO and COO at Genesis and, prior to that, Head of Risk at Hard Yaka. He has an established track record of leading at the forefront of modern financial markets. Early in his career, he served as a senior trader at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, where he co-managed the Funding Valuation Adjustment (FVA) trading desk and worked on modeling, pricing, and hedging credit structured products. 

Derar holds a Ph.D. in Financial Mathematics from Florida State University, focusing on financial derivatives and applied partial differential equations. 

Derar is a recipient of the prestigious Fulbright Scholarship, alongside other academic and professional awards.