Charles d'Haussy

Charles d'Haussy is the CEO of the dYdX Foundation, a non-profit organisation headquartered in Zug, Switzerland, focused on decentralised governance, developer enablement, and operations supporting the dYdX on-chain perpetual trading protocol. He has held the role since September 2022. His responsibilities at the Foundation include overseeing the protocol's migration from a Starkware layer 2 on Ethereum to a sovereign blockchain built on the Cosmos SDK, a move designed to fully decentralise the order book and eliminate dependence on third-party infrastructure such as AWS. Under this architecture, DYDX token staking secures the chain and validators are compensated in USDC. He also serves as an advisor to Bit Digital (NASDAQ: BTBT) and CIGP, an independent financial advisory group.

Prior to dYdX, d'Haussy held several roles at ConsenSys: Director of Strategic Initiatives (2019–2021), Managing Director for APAC (2021–2022), and Global Head of Business Development (2022). At ConsenSys, he led central bank digital currency projects with institutions in Australia, Singapore, Thailand, Dubai, China, and South Korea, and set up the firm's Hong Kong office. Before ConsenSys, he served as Head of FinTech at InvestHK, the Hong Kong government's investment promotion department, where he co-founded Hong Kong FinTech Week. He also held executive roles in Hong Kong's private sector, including co-founding an electronics company and a role at 8 Securities, where he helped launch the first robo-advisor in Asia. He is the co-author of two books: Block Kong (2021), on Hong Kong's blockchain leaders, and Arabian Crypto (2025), on the crypto industry in Arab countries. He studied at ESC Rennes and also studied in Canada and China. He holds SFC licences 1 and 4, a Certified Bitcoin Professional designation, and completed a blockchain business strategy programme at Be9 London.