Profile

Kadar Sayed Abdi

Curious about the ways on-chain primitives can create financial freedom, how attention can function as a market, and researching crypto market as usual. Now hacking on Calm

X (fka twitter)•telegram•linkedin
+Liquid Exposure:
[HYPE][PUMP][ZEC]
+Angel/Private Investments:
UpShotFogoAcctualHyperSwapLiquid Labs
+Product + UX Testing:

Testing product-market fit, user experience flows, and interface design for emerging web3 and fintech products.

+Writings:

[#21] Programmable Capital Markets (writing)

[#20] Treasury layer for stablecoins (Writing)

[#19] The savings rate the world never got

[#18] Cocaine, Cash and Convergence

[#17] What's Next?

[#16] Quiet Focus

[#15] Astro: Reflection

[#14] The Great Upgrade: Tokenisation, Capital Movement, and the Banks That Won't Die

[#13] Commercial Animals Eat Well

[#12] Fucking 30! DAMN

[#11] Size Matters: Being right is not enough anymore

[#10] FOMO: Coordination Is the Product

[#9] Social Fabric: Beneath Crypto

[#8] 2025: When Stablecoins Left CT

[#7] Primitives for Lazy Capital

[#6] Gondor: Aave for Prediction Markets

[#5] Fogo: Zero Compromise on SVM Perps

[#4] HyperCity: Expanding Surface Area of Whats Possible

[#3] Pear Protocol: Markets are built in Pairs

[#2] Upshot: Prediction Markets for Normies

[#1] Native Markets: Stablecoin built for the worlds execution layer

[#0] Uniswap: The Age of UNIfication

[#] Why Product Leaders Should Pay Attention to the Rise of Native Stablecoins

[#] Distribution is Destiny: Stablecoins and the Battle for Value Capture

[#] Path Creation Protocol: A permissionless stablecoin market creator (Lite Paper)

[#] Astro Protocol v1: Over-collateralized stablecoin built on Arweave (Lite Paper)

Design / Ideas:

[#3] Calm: Executing

[#2] Meridian: RTP Connectivity Protocol for Emerging Markets

[#1] Collapse: Execution Protocol for Stablecoin-Native Treasury

Experience:

co-founder/ceo @ Calm Calm

research @ Blank Blank Markets (current '26)

co-founder/lead @ Camino Treasury (...) Camino Treasury (may '26)

founder @ Astro Labs (acq.) Astro Labs (dec '25)

fellow @ Community Labs Community Labs (dec '24)

defi lead @ Copper Custody Copper (oct '23)

analyst @ varying firms FS (oct '19)