Stefano Zingg
Crypto-native commercial operator for business development, sales, partnerships, token associate, and DeFi / DAO research roles. Nine years in crypto and three years operating a FinCEN-registered stablecoin payments and settlement business. Partnered with 10 institutional liquidity providers, settled $302M+ across 2,769 transactions with zero client-fund losses, and onboarded 293 institutional counterparties from a 543-opportunity pipeline.
Commercial BD
Settled stablecoin-to-fiat payment volume across Ethereum, TRON, Solana, Polygon, and Bitcoin with zero client-fund losses and zero regulatory actions, spanning compliance intake, liquidity routing, execution, and post-trade reconciliation.
Partnerships
Profile
- Miami-based and committed to New York City relocation
- US citizen; fully authorized to work in the U.S.
- English C2/fluent, Spanish native, Italian C2/fluent
- B.S. Business Economics, Universidad Metropolitana, Caracas
Operator Track Record
- FinCEN MSB principal operations (#31000288665858), Nov 2022 – Mar 2026
- 293 institutional counterparties onboarded from 543 evaluated opportunities
- Distributed BD network with revenue-share economics and performance KPIs
- Internal compliance and operations platform integrating APIs, KYT, LLM-assisted review, and Botpress workflows
Generalist
Useful in roles that need commercial execution and real crypto-market fluency in the same person.
For BD and sales: pipeline qualification, partner diligence, commercial negotiation, implementation coordination, account health, and escalation handling.
For DAO and tokenomics research: stakeholder mapping, incentive analysis, governance-model research, token utility, and practical implementation constraints grounded in early crypto and DeFi market-structure fluency.
DeFi / DAO Fluency
Relevant strengths include early crypto context, DeFi market-structure fluency, and operator judgment around incentives, participation, and on-chain behavior.
Research Fit
- Early Ethereum and DAO context, from The DAO through governance and token-based coordination
- Uniswap / Sushi vampire attack, liquidity mining, CFMM LP risk, and delta-neutral LP strategy intuition
- Curve veTokenomics, Convex, gauge incentives, and protocol-liquidity tradeoffs
- Stakeholder and incentive mapping from 293 institutional counterparties and a distributed BD network
Operator Fit
- Hands-on USDC and USDT settlement across Ethereum, TRON, Solana, and Polygon
- On-chain analytics and KYT workflows for counterparty, liquidity, and settlement-risk decisions
- Google Sheets, API, and automation workflows for structured analysis and controlled testing
- Clear communication of DeFi and DAO mechanics to business, compliance, and product stakeholders
Stack
Hands-on operating experience across stablecoin payments, fiat on/off-ramps, liquidity routing, multisig treasury operations, blockchain analytics, fraud prevention, and partner implementation across banking and crypto-market infrastructure.
Payments & Market Structure
- USDC and USDT settlement across Ethereum, TRON, Solana, and Polygon
- Fiat on/off-ramps, exchange and OTC liquidity routing, and USD wire rails
- DeFi lending and AMMs: Aave, Compound, Uniswap, Curve
- Cross-chain bridges and intent-based architectures including CoW Swap
Risk & Analytics
- Risk-based compliance monitoring and blockchain-analytics workflows
- Etherscan and TronScan analysis for settlement-risk decisions
- Multisig treasury operations with Gnosis Safe
- Oracle and data infrastructure exposure via Chainlink and Pyth
Access Hub
A single entrypoint for the public profile, open operating metrics, passworded diligence data room, and private operating insights.