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Marek Socha is Managing Director, Global Markets at 21X, Europe's first ESMA-regulated DLT exchange, a role he has held since March 2026. He holds overall responsibility for Business Development, Sales, Customer Success, Marketing and Communications. At 21X, he has spoken publicly on the case for public blockchains in capital markets infrastructure and atomic settlement for tokenized equities, representing the firm at industry events including The Big Whale's Future of Finance in April 2026 and a London panel with Franklin Templeton and the Ethereum Foundation in May 2026.

Prior to joining 21X, Socha spent approximately five years at SIX Digital Exchange (SDX) as Head of Corporate Development and a member of the Extended Executive Committee, where he held full responsibility for acquisitions, strategic investments, joint ventures and partnerships around the regulated financial market infrastructure. He also served as Chairman of a VC investment fund and as a Shareholder Representative at AsiaNext, a MAS-regulated crypto exchange in Singapore. Across his career he has worked directly with executive boards, boards of directors, shareholders, institutional clients, regulators and investors in financial market infrastructure, digital securities, and fintech, with additional earlier experience in life sciences. No educational background is stated in the available source content.

Max Heinzle is Founder and CEO of 21X, a Frankfurt-based regulated exchange for the trading and settlement of digital assets operating under the European Union's DLT Regime. 21X has secured a licence to operate under that framework, making it the first fully regulated exchange of its kind under EU DLT Regime rules. The platform is built on a public permissionless blockchain and is designed to enable issuance, distribution, trading, and settlement of tokenised assets. In April 2026, Heinzle spoke at a Paris Blockchain Week breakfast event on the topic of products and opportunities on onchain rails.

Heinzle's career in financial services began in 2015 when he co-founded MEZZANY (OneCrowd Securities GmbH), a crowd-investing platform in Germany that reached a transaction volume of over €100 million and more than 90,000 registered users. In March 2017, he founded 21finance AG, a digital and regulated Marketplace as a Service platform for financial institutions, headquartered in Liechtenstein. He also became a founding member of the Institute for Value-based Enterprise (IVE) in Switzerland and serves as a founder and board member of Dcrypted AG, an investment company based in Liechtenstein. He founded 21X in 2023. Heinzle holds a Master of Science in Global Banking and Finance from the European School of Economics, London.