Anton Wilton Keen

02About

I have a habit of being early. I was the first finance hire at Binance outside China, the first at Optimism, and on the early team at Circle for the launch of USDC. Three companies that went on to define their categories: the exchange, the L2, and the stablecoin.

I build the financial backbone that lets category-definers scale without falling over: the treasury, the entity structure, the controls, the regulatory licensing and the capital strategy. At Binance that meant building and leading a finance organisation spanning 90 entities across 46 countries, plus the licence approvals behind the region’s regulated expansion. At Circle, the early financial foundations and regulatory design behind USDC. At Optimism, a $2B+ on-chain treasury, now the benchmark across the Superchain.

Before crypto, I built structured-finance and Basel models in investment banking at Crédit Agricole Investment Bank. Today I’m CFO of a high-performance SVM Layer 1, doing what I do best: turning financial chaos into institutional-grade order.

NowCFO, high-performance SVM L1

PreviouslyOptimism · Binance · Circle · Crédit Agricole

BasedLondon

03Track Record

Operating at the financial core of how markets are being rebuilt.

High-Performance SVM L1

Chief Financial Officer · Current

Sole finance leader at a high-performance SVM Layer 1 blockchain, building the institutional finance and treasury function from the ground up and partnering with the CEO and Board on capital strategy.

Optimism

Head of Finance · Treasury Officer · Board

First finance hire. Built and led the finance and treasury division for the leading DAO-governed L2 blockchain, taking it from start-up reactive to institutional grade. Owned a $2B+ on-chain treasury, one of the largest in Web3 and now the benchmark across the Superchain.

Binance

Head of Finance · UK, EMEA & CIS

First finance hire outside China. Built the regional finance organisation from zero across 46 countries and 90 entities in a $64B-daily-volume business, and led the licence approvals that underpinned Binance’s regulated expansion across EMEA.

Circle

Finance · Early USDC Team

Built the finance, treasury and reporting foundations behind the launch of USDC, now the world’s leading regulated stablecoin, and helped establish the reserve-transparency standards the industry later adopted.

Crédit Agricole

Corporate Finance

Corporate and investment banking. Led financing and balance-sheet modelling across the bank’s capital-markets activities, the institutional foundation beneath the crypto career.

04Perspective

How I think about the next decade of markets.

Treasury is the real moat.

Most protocols obsess over product and neglect the balance sheet. The ones that endure treat treasury, runway and capital strategy as core infrastructure, not an afterthought.

Stablecoins are the settlement layer.

The least glamorous primitive in crypto became its most important. Everything else compounds on top of credible, transparent settlement.

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Regulation is a feature, not a tax.

Building finance through Binance and Circle taught me that regulatory readiness, done early, is a moat rather than a cost. Trust is the product.

Anton Wilton Keen
Finance, on-chain.

Operating at the financial core of how markets are being rebuilt.

How I think about the next decade of markets.

Treasury is the real moat.

Stablecoins are the settlement layer.

Regulation is a feature, not a tax.

Let’s talk.