by Julia Sachs | Feb 27, 2026 | Builder Spotlight
Austin Patkos is a self-taught developer who got his start in crypto in 2018 and has been building ever since. After working on everything from NFT-gated content to a decentralized lending prototype, he joined Resolv, a project focused on making stolen crypto...
by Julia Sachs | Feb 5, 2026 | Builder Spotlight
Shaun Kimball is building Chekkd around a simple but increasingly urgent idea: trust should come before a transaction, not after something goes wrong. In this Builder Spotlight, Shaun shares how a rapid Sundance launch accelerated early momentum, why identity and...
by Julia Sachs | Jan 8, 2026 | Builder Spotlight
In this month’s Builder Spotlight, we sat down with Davis Nunez, founder of Defi Orbit, to talk about what it actually looks like to build in DeFi day-to-day. Davis shares how firsthand experience as a liquidity provider exposed major gaps in portfolio tracking, what...
by Julia Sachs | Dec 10, 2025 | Builder Spotlight
This month, UBC spoke with Daniel Holbrook, founder of BitHedge, a new principal-protected Bitcoin investment structure backed by commercial real estate equity. Daniel draws on more than a decade of valuation and investment work in commercial real estate to create a...
by Julia Sachs | Oct 8, 2025 | Builder Spotlight
This month’s Builder Spotlight features Derek Wride, founder of CPAI, a Utah-based startup using AI to make crypto tax reporting easier for both consumers and accountants. What began as a manual data-cleaning operation under his previous company, Moon Tax, has evolved...
by Julia Sachs | Sep 4, 2025 | Builder Spotlight
Mick Hagen is no stranger to building ambitious products. As a lifelong entrepreneur and technologist, he’s now leading the charge on a suite of tools designed to bring decentralized finance to the mainstream. In this conversation, Mick breaks down the architecture...
