Tycho is General Manager at Trust Machines and leads Zest Protocol, an institutional Bitcoin lending protocol. Zest Protocol aims to expand the Bitcoin economy by creating on-chain Bitcoin capital markets. Tycho holds a BA in History from the University of Oxford where he spent a lot of time thinking about financial history from the renaissance to crypto. Previously he co-founded Deedmob - a GovTtech SaaS company and was listed by Forbes as 30 under 30 in Europe. Tycho is also a Mentor in the Stacks Accelerator.