Partner
ParaFi CapitalCheck size: No personal venture check range is disclosed. Kevin leads quantitative strategies and technology development inside a multi-strategy manager spanning public and private markets; founders should not infer a standard venture ticket or sole decision authority from the Partner title.
Kevin approaches digital assets as both a quantitative portfolio manager and a systems builder. His remit joins non-directional and fundamental market strategies with production technology, while his public discussions cover stablecoin risk, institutional adoption and the engineering of blockchain infrastructure. The through-line is measurable market behavior, robust implementation and portfolio construction rather than a venture-only mandate.
Systematic opportunities supported by robust data; infrastructure that can operate reliably at production scale; risk that can be measured and diversified; technically credible teams; institutional-quality market structure; and strategies whose returns or user value do not depend solely on directional crypto beta.
Inferred from his remit and public commentary: unmeasured directional exposure presented as alpha, fragile infrastructure, strategies with weak execution or risk controls, stablecoin concentration without counterparty analysis, and technology claims that cannot survive production workloads. This is not a published personal pass list.
Treat the discussion as technical and investment diligence. Bring reproducible data, methodology, latency or performance benchmarks, market-capacity assumptions, operational controls, failure modes and risk decomposition. If the company is venture-stage, explain why its infrastructure or data creates durable value beyond a temporary market regime.
Separate directional market exposure from repeatable strategy returns, then stress costs, capacity, crowding and regime dependence before labeling a result as alpha.
Evaluate throughput, latency, failure recovery, observability, security and real workload benchmarks rather than relying on architecture claims or lab performance.
Map issuer, reserve, custody, banking, chain, liquidity and redemption dependencies so nominally distinct stablecoin positions are not mistaken for independent risks.
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Kevin YB is a Partner of ParaFi, leading the firm's quantitative strategies and technology development. Prior to joining ParaFi in 2019, he was a Managing Director at Reality Shares and previously served as a portfolio manager for a family office and CEO/CTO of Tenzar Technologies.