Taavet Hinrikus

Lightyear operates as a stock and ETF investment platform, offering accessible financial services. It explores Web3 technology, holding blockchain potential for future decentralized finance tools.

Superfluid is a Web3 streaming payments protocol for handling subscriptions, salaries, rewards, or any other composable stream of value on a per-second basis. Its core feature is "streaming" payments, where money flows from one address to another in real-time, based on programmable logic and a single on-chain transaction.

Ramp is a non-custodial, full-stack payment infrastructure that allows users to buy crypto without leaving their dApp or wallet.

XanPool is a global fiat-gateway solution designed for cryptocurrency platforms, such as exchanges, wallets, and others.

Violet is the compliance and identity infrastructure for DeFi. The core of the system consists of standardized methods to issue compliance credentials (in the form of non-transferable tokens) and map smart-contract access controls on the Ethereum network. This is coupled with resilient authentication (proof of identity) and enables DeFi markets to create permissioned environments where only credential holders, who are subject to continuous AML checks, can gain access.