New York, USA, 17th September, 2021,
BENQi, the first and largest algorithmic liquidity market protocol on Avalanche, is delighted to announce the appointment of Luke Youngblood as a strategic advisor.
On joining the BENQI advisory board, Luke Youngblood said, “I have been following BENQI for a while now and it’s great to see them hit milestones previously unheard of. Avalanche in general, and BENQI in particular, is well positioned to bring the technology that powers DeFi to the traditional finance world. I’m excited to be able to offer my experience and connections on their path to bridge DeFi and institutional networks within a suite of DeFi products.”
As a senior staff software engineer at Coinbase, Youngblood leads the development of the new staking and governance products within COINBASE Cloud. Prior to joining Coinbase in 2019, he was a principal solutions architect at Amazon Web Services.
Youngblood is well-known within the blockchain space for having built out the staking infrastructure for the Tezos network, which helped it become the world’s largest decentralized proof of stake validator at the time. He has also built the price oracle Harbinger and an algorithmic stablecoin called Kolibri.
