A distributed team building institutional ETF rails for Cardano
Basket.Finance blends protocol engineers, index researchers, and governance stewards. Meet the crew keeping the rails balanced and investors informed.
Contributors
18 core · 42 extended
Regions
APAC + EU + LATAM
Coverage
24/7 operations
Core Team
Small, autonomous pods own the end-to-end lifecycle: research → automation → monitoring.
Mai Nguyen
Protocol Lead
Focus · Product + Governance
Former Catalyst proposer and core contributor at several L2 research collectives.
Darius Lee
Quant Engineering
Focus · Index design + risk
Built structured products at TradFi desks before moving on-chain full time.
Ivy Tran
Design Systems
Focus · UX + contributor ops
Leads our contributor program and keeps the Basket.Finance brand coherent.
Rafael Costa
Smart Contracts
Focus · Audits + automation
Wrote the rebalancing automation and keeps our scripts humming 24/7.
Contributor Pillars
The same standards that govern our basket design now guide how we collaborate with operators and analysts.
Composability first
Everything we deploy is audited, documented, and meant to plug into the broader Cardano stack.
Global operator
Contributors span 7 time zones so investors always reach a live steward.
Risk obsessed
We maintain dual review on basket changes and rehearse incident playbooks quarterly.
Advisory loop
Linh Vu
Risk Committee
Ex-JPM risk officer, advises on ETF guardrails.
Thomas Meyer
Liquidity
Runs a Cardano market-making desk ensuring basket depth.
Yuki Aoki
Operations
Helps coordinate cross-timezone contributor pods.
Contributor Onboarding
Join an index pod
New contributors shadow an existing pod for two rebalance cycles before proposing independent models. Reach out via Discord for the latest bounty briefs.
Community Calls
Thursdays · 13:00 UTC
We host live sessions covering roadmap, audit updates, and governance votes. Notes post in #announcements for async review.