Basile Maire is a financial engineer with expertise in derivatives pricing and risk management. Basile has experience in smart contract implementations and has expert knowledge in blockchain bridging and oracle approaches. Based in Switzerland, Basile is a former Executive Director of UBS and a former Treasury Specialist at Zürcher Kantonalbank. He holds a PhD in the field of Banking and Finance, and an MSc in Computer Science with a focus on Computational Science.
D8X, a Polygon-based perpetual futurures decentralised exchange, or perp DEX, has raised $1.5 million in pre-seed funding from investors led by Polygon Ventures.