About Heslin
Heslin has spent over a decade at the intersection of digital assets and institutional capital markets. He previously served as VP at Euronext Stock Exchange, Tokeny Solutions, and Polymath, and led institutional digital asset strategy at Republic Crypto. He has angel invested in 160+ crypto projects and advised 50+ teams.
Heslin is the Co-founder and CBO of Zenith. As Canton’s native Ethereum-compatible execution layer, Zenith offers unmodified EVM (Solidity) and SVM (Rust) virtual blockchains that run natively within the same privacy-preserving infrastructure processing over $9T annually and trusted by JPMorgan, DTCC, Visa, Nasdaq, Broadridge, and other global institutions. Zenith is part of the consortium currently tokenizing Japan’s $1.6T repo market, bringing SBI, BlackRock Japan, and three Japanese megabanks onto permissioned onchain rails.
This enables institutions to seamlessly deploy battle-tested DeFi applications, ERC tokenization strategies, and Hyperledger Besu stack composability directly into Canton Network, without bridges, code rewrites, or compliance fragmentation.
Areas of Expertise
- Digital Assets
- Institutional Finance
- Blockchain
- Market Infrastructure
