Stellar Community Fund

By Excellar

Excellar-Yield Bridge

SCF #26

$100.0K

Legacy v5.0 Community Award

Awarded

We are bringing income and interoperability to Stellar from more than $1.5T crypto assets on other blockchain networks.

Requested Budget

$100.0K

Team

Who We Are

We have over three decades of combined financial industry experience, focusing on lending, trading, and risk management at storied institutions such as Millennium Management and Bank of America.

Amit Kaushik, CFA - Chief Investment Officer of SciFeCap LLC, a Crypto Asset Management Firm and author of "The Crypto Investor." Amit has worked at leading hedge fund Millennium Management and Wall Street firms such as Barclays and Bank of America.

Lisa Li - Chief Risk Officer with deep expertise in digital asset risk management. She spent over a decade heading up the risk management function at a leading futures/swap/broker-dealer, where she was instrumental in establishing and managing industry-leading risk management practices. She was also a key team member who managed the firm's $4 billion book of customer-segregated assets in short-term treasuries and related strategies.

Bowen Zhao - Quantitative Trader at SciFeCap and Consultant at Excellar. Bowen combines quantitative research with software engineering to architect and trade high-frequency crypto strategies across major exchanges including Binance, Bybit, OKX, and DeFi venues. He holds a Master of Science in Computational Finance from Carnegie Mellon University and designs multi-chain DeFi strategies with sub-50ms execution capabilities.

Our team is further supported by additional quant engineers from top firms, bringing cutting-edge quantitative and technical expertise to our institutional-grade tokenization platform.