Jared Borders

• Founded Ollo Finance, an FX derivatives platform for managing currency exposure across fiat and stablecoin markets, combining secure, cost-optimized onchain execution and settlement with agentic workflows powered by Google Gemini.
• Designed and led development of the platform's EVM smart contract protocol: limit order book, matching engine, global and margin accounts, interest-rate-aware funding, liquidations, and oracle-driven financial data ingestion.
• Built Rust backend services (Tokio, Axum, Alloy.rs) for quoting and caching streamed price data, automated liquidation monitoring and triggers, and transaction broadcast and simulation, deployed on Cloud Run via Terraform-managed GCP infrastructure.
• Shipped a production stablecoin spot exchange with crosschain settlement through 1inch and Aori aggregator integrations.
• Led pre-seed fundraising and negotiated a $1.3M milestone SAFE with the Sei Network Foundation; Ollo declined the investment due to ecosystem fit.
• Built the partner stack across infrastructure, market data, and legal: Alchemy, Turnkey, and 1inch for RPC, wallet, and execution; Chainlink, OANDA, and Massive for offchain financial data; Horizons Law for counsel.

• Architected Synthetix v4: a unified spot/perpetuals/lending derivatives protocol optimized for Synthetix's L2 network, Snaxchain.
• Led a 6+ person cross-functional team across smart contracts, backend infrastructure, marketing, and research operations to redesign a synthetic derivatives protocol securing $500M+ TVL.
• Collaborated with partners at Flashbots and Conduit to pioneer intra-block transaction prefixing for critical protocol updates (oracles, liquidations) to help mitigate adverse selection during price discovery.

• Designed and shipped the onchain margin trading and perpetual futures aggregation engine that facilitated >$120B in cumulative perpetual futures order-flow volume at Kwenta, later acquired for $13.2M.
• Scaled to $100M–$200M average OI, recurring top-three OI rankings, and ~10% of perpetual futures DEX volume from 2022 to 2024.
• Shipped EIP-712 conditional orders and an ERC-4337 session-key validator for delegated onchain execution.
• Deployed, maintained, and upgraded smart contract systems without exploitation across margin trading engines, governance token mechanisms, synth asset spot exchange, and custom ERC-4337-compliant smart accounts.
• Participated in Sherlock bug-bounty and automated coverage programs with no substantiated critical findings.

• Joined Crypto.com as its first U.S.-based hire on the DeFi smart contract team.
• Led early protocol design for the VVS Finance Gotchi Marketplace, leveraging the ERC-2535 Diamond proxy for upgradability.

• Led backend development of ACH and credit card payment rails for the Alabama Department of Revenue.
• Built iOS mobile features for digital licensing, harvest reporting, and real-time alerts for Alabama DCNR.

Inventory-aware market-making strategy for bootstrapping markets exhibiting thin liquidity.

Technical article comparing quanto and traditional perpetual futures market structures.

Explores unit-safe types for safer DeFi smart contract design, with worked examples.

Demonstrated practical typed-data hashing and secure offchain order-settlement mechanisms.

Awarded for implementing an offchain limit order book and matching engine, with asset custody, order settlement, and trade finality handled on the Optimism L2 network.

Awarded for building tooling to simplify unwinding debt accrued on multi-collateral Synthetix v3 positions via Aave flash loans and Uniswap spot exchange across Base and Arbitrum L2 networks.

Blockchain engineering fellowship in smart contract protocol security, auditing, and quality assessment.

Mentored Web2 engineers transitioning into smart contract engineering.