Pledge Finance is pleased to announce Brian Brooks as a strategic adviser. Brooks’ impressive resume includes time as CEO for both Bitfury and Binance.US. His experience will help Pledge become the premier platform for building long-term lending decentralized applications (DApp) for decentralized finance (DeFi).
A graduate of Harvard, Brooks has been recognized as one of the most influential comptrollers of the currency in the United States, where he granted the first federal bank charters to fintech and crypto companies, paving the way for the integration of crypto and traditional finance sectors. A visionary leader, Brooks ranked 13th on Cointelegraph’s top 100 people in blockchain, 10th on Crunchbase’s top global influencers, and in the top 20 crypto regulatory voices by Qredo. He’s served multiple top startups in various capacities, including Coinbase, Avant and, now, Pledge.
“Pledge is an amazing project with outstanding potential,” Brooks said. “It’s laying the foundation for the future of DeFi lending, with potential to be as important to DeFi as AWS is to the current internet. Pledge will do great things and create a platform for other companies to do even more great things.”
“Brian’s experience in traditional finance and crypto adds a lot of value to our protocol,” said Pledge CEO Tony Y. Chan. “His keen insights into corporate law, financial operations and blockchain technology will allow us to innovate and scale in the DeFi space.”
Pledge is committed to being the world’s leading marketplace for Bitcoin (BTC) loans, focusing on providing not only longer-term loans but also the building blocks necessary to create next-generation lending DApps. Pledge will leverage the innovative concept of financial nonfungible tokens (NFT) to bring interest rate swaps to DeFi, a multi-trillion-dollar market in legacy finance that’s currently absent from crypto.
For more, email bd@pledger.finance
About Pledge
Pledge is the world’s leading marketplace for financial NFTs. Starting with a fixed-rate Bitcoin loan, Pledge v1 offers fixed returns to TradeFi and DeFi investors. In addition, Pledge v1 provides fixed cost of capital to professional crypto traders. Pledge v2 will make Bitcoin loans tradable by converting Bitcoin loans into financial NFTs.
For more information, please visit www.pledger.finance.
About Brian Brooks
Brian Brooks currently serves as the CEO of Bitfury Group, the Bitcoin mining and crypto tech pioneer. He previously served as the CEO of Binance.US, acting U.S. comptroller of the currency, chief legal officer of Coinbase, and executive vice president and general counsel of Fannie Mae, among other roles. He has served as a board member of Voyager Digital, Interfirst Mortgage, Spring Labs, Fannie Mae and Avant and as an adviser to a number of fintech and crypto startups. He is an honors graduate of Harvard University and the University of Chicago Law School.