Arun ShankarAndrew Keys has joined DARMA Capital as Managing Partner. Prior to DARMA Capital, Andrew co-founded ConsenSys Capital. He also served as Head of Global Business Development for ConsenSys, the largest Ethereum software engineering company in the world. During Andrew’s tenure at ConsenSys, his responsibilities included teaching central banks and Fortune 500’s the importance of blockchain technology in digitising the global economy.
Andrew also co-created the first Ethereum Blockchain-as-a-Service offering with Microsoft and helped start the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance EEA, an open-source cross-industry initiative focused on permeating Ethereum technology through enterprise environments. EEA is now one of the largest open-source blockchain initiatives in existence. The other partners of DARMA Capital are James Slazas, formerly head of Capital Markets at ConsenSys and John Slazas, founder of JSTrading Services, a quantitative trading analytics company.
DARMA Capital currently manages over $100M of digital assets since its public soft launch in early 2019. DARMA Capital’s goal is to provide Quantitative Systematic Alpha Generation of Web 3 Blockchain Protocols. DARMA’s flagship fund is an Optimised Long Ether fund for investors seeking to protect a net long ETH position from negative price events and accumulate more Ether. Andrew will be responsible for DARMA Capital’s global business development and product strategy.
DARMA’s first corporate risk management client is ConsenSys. DARMA Capital is an investment fund registered with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission as a Commodity Pool Operator, Commodity Trading Adviser, and a member of the National Futures Association.
The fund is a Cayman-Delaware Master-Feeder structure with the general partnership and Investment Advisor based in Puerto Rico. All investors are Qualified Eligible Participants. Supporting the fund are world-class service providers including Greenberg Traurig and Walkers Global for legal counsel, Duff and Phelps for compliance, KPMG for audit, and Opus Fund Services for fund administration.
The firm is based in Dorado, Puerto Rico with additional trading operations in Chicago and Dubai.
ConsenSys is a blockchain company dedicated to transforming the world’s digital architecture toward a more open, inclusive, and secure Internet of value, commonly called Web3. With a more trustworthy Internet architecture, ConsenSys is helping enterprises and governments unlock new business models and value, gain efficiencies through a shared IT infrastructure, and utilise modern cryptographic methods to safeguard private user data.
