Today · Santa Cruz de Tenerife · open to relocation

Alejandro Jiménez de Aréchaga

founder · product leader · credit-risk mind

Seven years where blockchain, fintech and credit risk meet. One studio, one protocol, one exit, and a security engine that pays for itself.

building something ambitious? let's talk.

✎alex@actum.capital ➤Telegram · @beyond_nate

or find me on linkedin.com/in/alejandrojd

What I bring to a project

  • App & web development
  • Smart contracts & protocol design
  • Product & UX design
  • Brand identity
  • Digital marketing & community
  • Security & pen-testing
  • Positioning & go-to-market
  • Fundraising & deals
  1. 2025 → now · in parallelSecurity award winner

    Satellite

    Founder · runs alongside the studio

    Whitehat security that scans every EVM contract and pays for itself.

    • 2.3Mcontracts scanned
    • 57verified vulnerabilities
    • $140kin bounties, 6 paid
    Goal
    Harden every contract deployed on EVM chains since 2018, and fund the research with the bounties it earns.
    Built
    A continuous engine that indexes new deployments across 9 chains, runs layered static and symbolic checks, triages findings and opens responsible disclosure with the affected teams.
    Outcome
    57 verified vulnerabilities disclosed, 6 bounties paid worth $140k, zero incidents on disclosed findings. A self-sustaining loop that hardens on-chain code and turns whitehat research into revenue.

    Best Security Research Tool, DeFi Security Awards 2026. Top-10 researcher on a major bounty leaderboard.

  2. 2024 → Sep 2025 · the protocolExit · Animoca Brands

    Beyond

    Founder & CEO · B2B blockchain infrastructure protocol

    The studio's primitives, packaged as one protocol and sold eighteen months later.

    • 7ecosystem partners
    • $1.4MARR in 11 months
    • 3competing term sheets
    Goal
    Turn what the studio kept rebuilding for clients into one protocol with recurring revenue.
    Built
    Hosted infrastructure for L1 and L2 ecosystems, with pricing, monetization and roadmap set from scratch. Closed multi-stakeholder deals from cold outreach to contract, then ran the sale process personally: outreach, data room, valuation, legal, closing.
    Outcome
    Seven ecosystem partners and $1.4M ARR within 11 months, at 99.95% uptime. Acquired by Animoca Brands in September 2025 after a five-month process with three competing term sheets. Every engineer stayed through the transition.

    Exit of the Year, Canary Islands Startup Awards 2025. Infrastructure Provider of the Year, Web3 Builders Awards 2024.

  3. Feb 2022 → now · the studioFounded

    Beyond Software Development

    Founder & CEO · turnkey apps, protocols and websites for others

    A blank page to twelve live protocols on six chains, and a brand the whole space follows.

    • 12protocols shipped
    • $38Mpeak TVL
    • 0 → 50kfollowers, organic
    Goal
    Become the studio that L1 and L2 ecosystems call first for turnkey DeFi products.
    Built
    Protocol architecture, product design and delivery across DEXs, lending markets, NFT marketplaces and Web3 infra. An 18-person team across smart contracts, frontend and UI/UX. The brand and its channels, run personally.
    Outcome
    Twelve production protocols on six chains, $38M peak TVL, zero critical exploits in production. Social accounts grown from zero to over 50,000 followers, with many of the most influential people in the space among them, which fed inbound deal flow and, eventually, Beyond.

    Founder of the Year, Canary Islands Startup Awards 2023.

  4. Apr 2020 → Feb 2022Early employee

    Revolut

    Product Development

    Shipping consumer finance at hypergrowth speed, inside the rules.

    • 9features shipped
    • +18%activation lift
    • 15M+users reached
    Goal
    Ship consumer financial features fast without tripping compliance.
    Built
    Joined the product org while headcount tripled. Worked across product, data, risk and compliance, ran experiments and prioritisation frameworks, owned specs from discovery to release.
    Outcome
    Nine features shipped to 15M+ users. An onboarding experiment lifted activation by 18%. Took away the unit-economics and compliance instincts that now drive product diligence.
  5. Dec 2018 → Apr 2020

    Crédito y Caución

    Commercial Credit Analyst

    Learned to price the downside before the upside.

    • €120M+exposure assessed
    • 300+corporate files
    • 0.4%loss rate vs 1.1% book
    Goal
    Set credit limits that let sales grow without blowing up the book.
    Built
    Analysed financial statements, cash flows and sector dynamics. Wrote a structured, downside-first underwriting checklist that the team adopted.
    Outcome
    €120M+ of exposure assessed across 300+ files, with a 0.4% loss rate against a 1.1% book average. The same lens now sits behind every investment call.

    Underwriting checklist adopted across the regional team.

  6. Mar → Jun 2018First job · multinational

    Banco Santander

    Intern · Santa Cruz de Tenerife

    First job, inside a bank with 200,000 people.

    • 4months
    • 2teams, relationship and back office
    Goal
    Learn how corporate and retail banking works from the inside.
    Built
    Supported relationship and back-office teams on client needs, financial products and internal risk processes.
    Outcome
    A working map of how credit decisions, products and clients connect, which led straight into the credit-risk role.
  7. Jan 2015 → Jan 2016First venture

    Trabajaparami.es

    Founder, while studying

    First venture, at twenty, with no outside capital.

    • 1,200registered workers
    • 340gigs matched
    Goal
    Match occasional work with the people who needed it, across the Canary Islands.
    Built
    The website, the operations and the marketing, solo.
    Outcome
    1,200 workers and 340 gigs matched in year one. Learned the whole loop of build, launch and sell.

  • Crypto & Web3

    protocols · tokens · ecosystems

  • Venture & deals

    sourcing · fundraising · M&A

  • Product & design

    strategy · UX · delivery

  • Finance & risk

    credit · unit economics · pricing

  • Leadership & brand

    teams · community · voice

The seed BSc Business Administration, Universidad de La Laguna, 2013 → 2017 Ground Santa Cruz de Tenerife · Spanish, English

A story told the right way.

from the roots, up to today

  • iZero to exit in 3.5 years.Founded the studio in 2022. Its protocol, Beyond, was acquired by Animoca Brands in 2025.
    ii12 protocols, 6 chains, 0 critical exploits.DEXs, lending markets, NFT marketplaces and infra, architected and shipped end to end.
  • iii0 → 50,000 followers, organically.A brand built from nothing, followed by many of the most influential people in the space.
    ivAn underwriter's eye for downside.€120M+ of commercial credit priced before ever evaluating a token.
  • vDeals closed personally, end to end.20+ partnerships taken from cold outreach to signature.

© 2026 Alejandro Jiménez de Aréchaga · alex@actum.capital

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