Gabriel Abed, a Leading Authority on Digital Currencies and Founder of Bitt Inc., Joins AXIS DeFi as an Advisor

By Maggie Xu, Co-Founder

We’re very excited to announce that Gabriel Abed is joining AXIS to advise the project.

Gabriel is known as a pioneer in the digital currency evolution, having initiated the first global movement to encourage the use of Central Bank digital currencies. Gabriel has led presentations and engaged in discussions with the Caribbean Development Bank, the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, the United Nations and the Commonwealth Secretariat.

In 2014, Gabriel founded Bitt Inc., a Financial Technology company that utilizes blockchain and distributed ledger technology to facilitate secure peer-to-peer transactions with mobile money. In February 2016, Bitt officially launched the Barbados Dollar on the Blockchain (a Central Bank backed digital currency).

Gabriel has also founded the Digital Asset Capital Management (DACM). DACM has a unique mix of blockchain technical and operating knowledge and financial markets experience from top-tier global investment banks such as Goldman Sachs, J.P. Morgan and Citi.

DACM constructs and actively manages funds of high-growth digital assets that offer sophisticated and institutional investors optimal exposure to the rapidly growing technology. In 2018, DACM launched the DAF ICO Fund that focused on investing in high-quality ICOs and working with early-stage, high-quality blockchain and blockchain-like projects. Its portfolio projects include Algorand, Casper Labs, Grin, Harmony, Spacemash, Raven, Carry, Thunder and Dock.

Gabriel brings tremendous knowledge wealth, social capital and strategic thinking to the AXIS team. We’re extremely excited on the partnership opportunities, both with regards to traditional financial funds and leading blockchains, that Gabriel can help open doors to.

Welcome Gabriel to the team!