Bringing Every Financial Asset Onchain

Yuval is a visionary leader at the intersection of finance and technology.

Yuval co-founded Digital Asset in 2014 to harness the promise of blockchain technology to create an open financial network where value flows as freely as information on the internet.

As a Co-Founder and CEO of Digital Asset, Yuval has been instrumental in reshaping global finance by merging traditional systems with the power of decentralized technology. Yuval played a pivotal role in the formation of the Canton Network, the only public layer-one blockchain with privacy. He is also a Board Member and Treasurer of the Global Synchronizer Foundation, which he helped to create with the support of the Linux Foundation, to bring fair and transparent decentralized governance and organizational neutrality to the adoption and evolution of the Canton Network.

Yuval is a member of the Digital Asset Markets subcommittee of the U.S. Commodities Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Global Market Advisory Committee and serves on the Board of Directors of the Global Blockchain Business Council, a leading industry association for the blockchain technology ecosystem. He has also testified before the U.S. House Committee on Financial Services Subcommittee on Digital Assets, Financial Technology and Inclusion.

Before founding Digital Asset, Yuval gained extensive experience in finance and technology, holding key positions at Citadel and DRW Trading, where he managed an algorithmic trading desk and helped launch DRW Venture Capital.

Eric Saraniecki is co-founder and head of network strategy at Digital Asset, the organization supporting the Canton Network, focusing on strategic direction and helping build the network’s technological foundation and relationships with large institutions.

Previously, he worked at DRW Trading Group as a trader, where he built and managed a trading desk focused on low-liquid commodities—a market that demands sharp analysis, strict risk management and a smart strategy. From there, he co-founded Cumberland Mining, which grew to become one of the largest liquidity providers in the crypto market. His systemic thinking, shaped by years of dealing with illiquid assets, led him to view Bitcoin as an asset with speculative opportunities and a driver of a powerful new market that required more structure and liquidity.

In his current role, he gives particular focus to ensuring interoperability between applications, maintaining data privacy at the institutional level and building a network architecture that can be used by banks, clearing houses and asset managers.