Fatih Balyeli

Fatih Balyeli is Co-Founder and CEO of Exaion, a subsidiary of the EDF Group founded in January 2020 and specialising in blockchain infrastructure, HPC, 3D cloud, quantum computing, and AI. He leads the company's positioning as an infrastructure provider — not an application layer — serving protocol developers, financial institutions, and enterprises requiring sovereign, decarbonised computing services. Exaion's data centres operate on nuclear and wind energy in northern France, with computing capacity in Canada supplied by hydraulic energy.

On the digital assets side, Balyeli oversees Exaion's operation of RPC nodes, validation nodes, and blockchain archive infrastructure, as well as an internally developed staking activity. Following the company's PSAN registration, he is directing the build-out of an institutional-grade offering — covering digital asset custody, staking, and fiat-crypto, crypto-fiat, and crypto-crypto swaps — targeted at banks and investment funds entering the crypto space, with a planned commercial launch in the second half of 2025. He has stated explicitly that Exaion's positioning is as a technical infrastructure provider, not a financial intermediary. Before founding Exaion, Balyeli served as Investment Director at EDF Pulse Ventures from 2017 to 2019, where he held board positions at portfolio companies including Metroscope. Prior to that, he worked as Project Manager at Enedis from October 2012 to December 2016. Earlier in his career, he worked as a trader at BNP Paribas in Hong Kong and London. He holds an engineering degree from MINES ParisTech.