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Leadership
Lars van der Zande
Founder & CEO (Technical Architect)
- 5+ years building on Solana, 10+ years full-stack & DevOps
- Designed Inkwell’s cross-chain enforcement architecture and the Encrypt-program integration powering Dagon
- Active Ika RFP contributor with direct code review from the Ika core team
- Previously: senior DevOps engineer, blockchain infrastructure specialist
Gregory Nicholas
Head of Business Development
- Strategic partnerships, capital introduction, and product distribution
- Owns institutional LP relationships and the ecosystem flywheel across products
- Deep network across TradFi credit and crypto-native funds
What the team is built for
Inkwell is a small, deep engineering practice — not a single-product company. The same bench ships:- Products — Leviathan (credit infrastructure), Dagon (confidential matching), Synthase (basis-yield), IKA Staking + LIKA (validator allocation and liquid staking).
- Services — Ika dWallet integration, Encrypt FHE integration, cross-chain enforcement design, confidential-compute architecture.
Key hires (in progress)
We are hiring against the practice, not against a single product:| Role | Focus | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Senior FHE / cryptography engineer | Encrypt-program op-graphs, REFHE bootstrap economics, threshold decryption design | 🔄 Hiring |
| Senior on-chain engineer | Move/Sui + Solana Anchor, Ika dWallet integration, capability hierarchies | 🔄 Hiring |
| Chief Risk Officer (CRO) | SPV structure, ISDA mapping, counterparty risk for Leviathan + institutional engagements | 🔄 Hiring |
| Senior data scientist | Credit scoring, revenue analytics, validator scoring models | 🔄 Hiring |
| Institutional sales lead | LP relationships, partnership pipeline across products and services | 🔄 Hiring |
CRO scopeThe CRO will bridge traditional finance and crypto credit markets for
Leviathan and for institutional services engagements:
- SPV structure and waterfall design
- ISDA documentation mapping for crypto-native loans
- Counterparty risk frameworks
- Regulatory gap analysis across CIMA, MiCA, SEC
Why this team
Frontier primitives, in production
Frontier primitives, in production
Lars designed the full Ika integration architecture, the Encrypt
op-graph behind Dagon’s matcher, and the Leviathan cross-chain
enforcement model. Direct collaboration with both the Ika and
Encrypt core teams keeps the architecture grounded in what those
primitives can actually do today — not in the marketing version.
Distribution across multiple surfaces
Distribution across multiple surfaces
Gregory brings the relationships needed to place capital into
Leviathan, to recruit pilot partners across products, and to source
services engagements for teams that need our stack in theirs.
Skin in the game
Skin in the game
$300k first-loss from the seed round goes into Leviathan’s SPV —
founders eat their own cooking. We only win when counterparties win.
Ecosystem partners
Ika Network
Core 2PC-MPC partner. Direct code review and architecture validation
from the Ika core team. Active RFP contributor.
Encrypt (dWallet Labs)
FHE partner. Early SDK integration via the
encrypt-program on
Solana devnet, including production op-graphs and benchmarking.Sui Foundation
Ecosystem partner. IKA Staking, LIKA, and Leviathan’s policy
gateway run on Sui Move.
Solana
Ecosystem partner. Leviathan’s lending programs and Dagon’s
matching venue ship as Anchor + Pinocchio programs on Solana.