Muneeb Ali’s Trust Machines Hires Coinbase, Reddit, BNY Veterans

Amid a bear mar­ket, Trust Machines, a DeFi start-up by Bit­coin (BTC) OG Muneeb Ali, is on a hir­ing spree. The team expands its com­mu­ni­ca­tions, busi­ness devel­op­ment and mar­ket­ing units.

Coinbase’s Asiff Hirji joins Trust Mashines as advisor

Accord­ing to the offi­cial announce­ment by the Trust Machines team, it has onboard­ed two direc­tors and one new advi­sor. High-pro­file founder and investor at Coin­base and Amer­i­trade, and a16z offi­cer, Asiff Hir­ji starts oper­at­ing as an advi­sor to Trust Machines.

As a high­ly regard­ed expert in fin­tech and a VC strate­gist, Mr. Hir­ji is excit­ed by his new advi­so­ry role and the mis­sion of Trust Machines in the adop­tion of Bit­coin (BTC) solutions:

Bring­ing smart con­tracts capa­bil­i­ty to Bit­coin is a unique untapped mar­ket. Muneeb and his team are lead­ing that work through both EVM com­pat­i­ble and oth­er safe pro­gram­ming envi­ron­ments through the Stacks lay­er for Bit­coin. I look for­ward to work­ing with Muneeb to help grow the Bit­coin economy.

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Also, BNY Mel­lon’s Man­as Moha­p­a­tra was added to Trust Machines’ team as Deputy Gen­er­al Coun­sel. In BNY Mel­lon he, inter alia, curat­ed oper­a­tions with dig­i­tal assets. Mr. Moha­p­a­tra will be respon­si­ble for Trust Machines’ com­pli­ance with glob­al reg­u­la­to­ry requirements:

I’m thrilled to join the world-class team at Trust Machines and look for­ward to help­ing nav­i­gate the ever-chang­ing legal and reg­u­la­to­ry landscape.

Igor Sylvester joins the Trust Machines engi­neer­ing unit; he is an alum of Red­dit, where he served as staff secu­ri­ty engi­neer. Pre­vi­ous­ly, he led the Machine Learn­ing unit at Facebook.

Bringing Web3 tooling to Bitcoin (BTC)

Recent­ly, Trust Machines also appoint­ed Aubrey Stro­bel and Rena Shah, com­mu­ni­ca­tions advi­sor and head of oper­a­tions and strat­e­gy, respectively.

CEO of Trust Machines, Muneeb Ali, is thrilled by the results of the lat­est phase of a hir­ing cam­paign cru­cial for his team’s devel­op­ment and adoption:

I’m excit­ed to share that Trust Machines con­tin­ues to attract world-class tal­ent dur­ing this bear mar­ket to help build the world’s largest ecosys­tem of Bit­coin appli­ca­tions. I’m thrilled to have both Man­as and Igor join the core team and to work with Asiff to fur­ther our mis­sion of grow­ing the Bit­coin economy.

In ear­ly Feb­ru­ary 2022, Trust Machines made head­lines by rais­ing $150 mil­lion from lead­ing VC firms, includ­ing the likes of Brey­er Cap­i­tal, Dig­i­tal Cur­ren­cy Group, Gold­en­Tree, Hive­mind and Union Square Ventures.

The pro­to­col is focused on super­charg­ing DeFi designs with Bit­coin (BTC) pow­er. Its founder, Dr. Muneeb Ali, is also a CEO of Bit­coin DeFi plat­form Stacks.