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Intention is built by a small team. Each core contributor has spent years on one hard part of a market: how orders match, how risk is contained, how identity is proven, how capital moves, and how a venue works for its users.

Eric

Research and market microstructure
  • Wrote Permissionless, a book on market microstructure and on-chain markets.
  • Ran one of the first pre-registered studies of how matching behaves when AI agents do most of the trading. Intention is designed around that question.
  • Holds a PhD.

Alex

Compliance · serial entrepreneur
  • Serial founder. Built two companies in digital identity, and one was acquired by a major industry group.
  • Designed zero-knowledge KYC: a user proves they meet compliance rules without revealing who they are.
  • Engineer by training. MSc, TU Munich.

Bridget

Capital markets
  • About 15 years moving institutional capital, at asset managers and global banks.
  • Scaled an asset management business more than tenfold in three years.
  • Early to tokenization. MSc, Peking University.

Andy

Risk
  • Ran market, credit, and liquidity risk for one of the world’s largest crypto exchanges: real-time monitoring, stress tests, and model validation.
  • Before that, a risk quant at two global banks.
  • PhD, ETH Zurich.

Scott

Product
  • Led platform product at a top-tier crypto exchange: unified accounts, custody, KYC, and compliance.
  • Before that, built onboarding and fiat-to-on-chain infrastructure at a licensed exchange.