Editorial-grade analysis for serious crypto allocators.
The events of 2022 and 2023 exposed a structural gap in the information available to participants in digital asset markets. The collapse of the Terra/Luna ecosystem in May 2022, the bankruptcy of FTX in November of that year, and the subsequent failures of Celsius, Voyager, and BlockFi demonstrated that even nominally sophisticated allocators had insufficient visibility into the risk profiles of the instruments they held. Yield was displayed; methodology was not.
Meridian was founded in 2023 in direct response to this gap. Our thesis is straightforward: the quality of information available to a participant in public capital markets should not depend on whether that participant has access to a prime brokerage relationship or a proprietary research desk. Institutional-grade analysis should be available as infrastructure, not as a privilege.
We are not a protocol, a broker, or a custodian. We do not hold assets, execute transactions, or provide personalised investment advice. Meridian is an independent research and information service — a structured lens through which the digital asset yield landscape can be examined with the same rigour applied in traditional fixed income markets.
Meridian surfaces yield opportunities across the digital asset landscape — staking, lending, liquidity provision, and structured DeFi strategies — and subjects each to a five-dimensional risk assessment covering smart contract integrity, liquidity conditions, counterparty structure, yield sustainability, and regulatory exposure. Every opportunity presented on the platform carries a published risk rating derived from this methodology.
Our comparative analysis draws on data from DeFiLlama, on-chain analytics via Dune Analytics and direct RPC node access, independent audit reports from recognised security firms, and governance forum activity. Data is refreshed on a rolling basis, with intra-day updates for high-volatility metrics such as TVL and spot APY.
To be explicit about what the Service is not: Meridian does not provide regulated financial advice. We do not custody client assets. We do not execute transactions on behalf of users. We do not hold or transfer client funds. We do not act as a broker, dealer, or fiduciary. Users of the Service retain full control of their assets and are solely responsible for any investment decisions made in reliance on information presented herein.
Meridian is operated by a team of approximately 22 professionals with backgrounds spanning institutional fixed income, digital asset research, credit risk modelling, audit, and distributed systems engineering.
Daniel Wright, CFA
Co-founder & Chief Executive Officer
Twelve years in institutional fixed-income portfolio management at Bridgewater Associates, focusing on sovereign and corporate credit strategies across Asia-Pacific. MSc Finance, London School of Economics.
Mei-Ling Tan
Co-founder & Head of Research
Former lead protocol analyst at DeFiLlama, responsible for methodology covering more than 800 indexed protocols. PhD Computational Economics, National University of Singapore. Research focused on mechanism design and incentive structures in decentralised systems.
Robert Ndlovu
Head of Risk
Twelve years in credit risk modelling at Standard Chartered, covering structured products and counterparty exposure across sub-Saharan Africa and South-East Asia. Applies traditional credit risk frameworks to on-chain protocol assessment.
Yuki Tanaka, CPA
Head of Operations
Ten years in audit and financial advisory at PricewaterhouseCoopers (Big Four), with experience across financial services and technology sectors in Japan and Singapore. Oversees finance, compliance operations, and corporate governance at Meridian.
Andreas Becker
Head of Engineering
Eight years building distributed financial infrastructure at Block (formerly Square), including core backend systems for Cash App's investment and savings products. Leads Meridian's data pipeline, on-chain indexing, and platform engineering.
Meridian is privately funded by family offices, institutional digital asset funds, and individual investors with deep backgrounds in traditional finance. Our backers bring expertise in fixed income, structured credit, and digital asset market infrastructure, and share our conviction that the quality of risk disclosure in digital asset markets must improve materially. No venture capital has been accepted; Meridian retains full editorial and operational independence.
Meridian Capital Markets Pte. Ltd. is incorporated in the Republic of Singapore.
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Founded
2023 · Singapore