🔈 Adam is the Co-Founder and CEO at Ledn, a global company regulated in the Cayman Islands that focuses on building financial products to help people save in bitcoin and digital assets. Prior to co-founding Ledn, Adam spent ten years at Dream Asset Management where he developed, built, and financed a $1.5 billion portfolio of renewable power projects. It was Bitcoin's connection with energy that brought Adam into Bitcoin mining, where he and his co-founder identified a gap in financing digital assets. Today, Ledn is a broad financial services platform with clients in over 130 countries. Adam is a graduate of the HBA program at the Richard Ivey School of Business and also holds a Bachelor of Engineering Science from the University of Western Ontario.

We talk with Adam about his background and BTC mining beginnings which paved his crypto asset path, Canadian banks and their reservation with digital assets, TradFi vs. centralized crypto lending, Ledn loan/yield/mortgage products, Ledn’s survival & risk management during the crypto lending crash, de-risking relationships, the “open book” report, the DCN product, decentralized vs. centralized lending, Ledn’s client base structure and team, proof of reserves, rebuilding trust in the lending industry, competitive landscape, the Canadian trucker incident and Ledn’s roadmap. 🔈