What inspired you to leave your engineering job at Coinbase to start Helius?
Replied byMert Mumtaz
Co-Founder & CEO at Helius
Niche: Cryptocurrency
Revenue: Not Publicly Disclosed/month
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Started: 2022
While working at Coinbase, I was frustrated that most crypto activity was just circular money movement without actual, useful applications. At the time, blockchains did not scale well and building on chain was incredibly difficult because the necessary developer tools and core infrastructure platforms simply did not exist yet.
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