As Chief Legal Officer at Kraken, Marco Santori oversaw legal and regulatory compliance at one of the world’s longest-standing and most secure crypto platforms.
Now, having joined the WalletConnect Foundation as a Director, Santori is getting “back to his roots,” he told Decrypt.
“I wanted to focus on self custody,” Santori said, explaining that much of the growth in the crypto industry in recent years has been driven by speculation. “That’s a feature, not a bug; Satoshi was one of the first to point this out,” he added. But while speculators are the “top of the funnel for crypto adoption,” he said, “It’s critical that there are tools that demonstrate how powerful self custody can be—how it cannot just serve…
