About Us

We built Altius for highly ambitious teams.

Production-ready blockchain infrastructure for teams bringing high-volume products onchain. Built by engineers from Hudson River Trading, Google, Optimism, and Worldcoin.
OUR MISSION

We give institutions and onchain teams a chain they own outright, fast enough to compete with anything offchain.

Most teams building onchain rent their infrastructure and hand the economics to someone else. We built Altius to change that.
Our Vision

The same standards that run institutional trading systems, applied to blockchain infrastructure

We hold our infrastructure to the reliability, latency, and operational discipline our team learned building systems where milliseconds and uptime carried significant financial cost.
Team

Seasoned operators from finance, technology, and digital assets

Our team combines deep expertise from multibillion-dollar HFT firms like Hudson River Trading with digital asset platforms like Amber Group, and protocol engineering from OP Labs and World. We've run the trading systems, exchanges, and infrastructure financial platforms depend on.
CEO
Annabelle
Annabelle

Sets company direction and strategy. Built and led a multi-billion dollar digital asset platform at Amber Group, after earlier roles at AirSwap and Deutsche Bank.

CTO
Anit
Anit

Owns the technical architecture. Joined Hudson River Trading as its 12th employee and spent years building high-frequency trading systems, with earlier work at Oracle.

COO
Angie
Angie

Runs operations and product. Has taken five-plus DeFi and infrastructure products from zero to production, including work at The Graph, Clipper DEX, and Accenture Strategy.

Core Dev
Ovunc
Ovunc

Backend engineer with 15+ years building large-scale distributed systems. Led data engineering infrastructure handling billions of events across high-throughput technology platforms.

Core Dev
Okan
Okan

Systems architect with a record of building infrastructure at scale. Previously the youngest architect at Yahoo, CTO of Turkcell, and tech lead at Oracle. Founded Linovi, delivering big data systems for clients including Shazam (acq. by Apple) and Google.

VP of Engineering
Nick
Nick

Heads protocol engineering. Built and scaled the teams behind production rollup infrastructure at OP Labs, with prior engineering leadership at Eigen Labs and World (Tools for Humanity).

DevOps
Evan
Evan

Keeps the infrastructure reliable. Held mission-critical trading systems at 99.99% uptime during eleven years at Hudson River Trading, with later work at Chaincode Labs.

Build the chain you own. We'll run it with you.

If you're bringing high-volume trading, settlement, or onchain products to production, we'd like to hear about it.
Talk to Our Team