The Infrastructure Gap Holding Blockchain Back

Annabelle joined Maria on Women Leading the Way to trace her path from Deutsche Bank to DeFi to building blockchain infrastructure, and to explain where that infrastructure still falls short.

She frames two gaps the industry has faced: liquidity, largely solved by market makers and institutional participants, and infrastructure, the longer-term challenge Altius is built to address. Drawing on her trading background, she describes Altius as building customized, purpose-built stacks that apply high-frequency trading principles to blockchain, an abstraction layer that delivers fast, low-cost performance without requiring users to understand what runs underneath. The conversation also covers what institutions need before they build on-chain, security, compliance, and privacy alongside performance, how regulation like the GENIUS and CLARITY Acts is unlocking adoption, and a candid discussion of leadership, sustainability, and building as a female founder.

Annabelle Huang appeared on Women Leading the Way. Listen to the full episode →

https://open.spotify.com/episode/5sqUPskBxoXmpYKZIz0ZTP