Earlier this week we held the first Syntetika AMA. Jorge Cuartero, Syntetika's new CEO, and Barnali Biswal, CEO of Hilbert Group, spent half an hour on the questions the community sent in: the relationship between Hilbert and Syntetika, how the platform works, what launches next, and how institutions are approaching this market. This is the recap. The full conversation is on YouTube: watch the full AMA.
Syntetika and Hilbert relationship
Barnali Biswal addressed the Hilbert question:
Syntetika is an independent project and an independent entity. It is governed by the Syntetika Foundation. The foundation controls Syntetika.
Hilbert's role, in her words, is support: it backed the build, and it will keep supporting the launch and the institutional rollout. "I want to be completely unambiguous about that distinction," she said. The Syntetika protocol is controlled by the Syntetika Foundation. Hilbert Group incubated Syntetika and owns its development company, and it holds no ownership and no control over the protocol or the Foundation.
The new CEO, in his own words
Jorge Cuartero has been in crypto since 2018, with a focus on DeFi and infrastructure. He led business development at Gearbox, founded a delta-neutral crypto fund that was later acquired by Tulipa Capital, and serves as Tulipa's Chief Investment Officer.
His dual role was addressed directly. Tulipa found Syntetika while evaluating an investment in the strategy behind it, and preferred to keep its capital onchain. "It was almost instantly that I got the vision of what this could become," Jorge said. Tulipa is now a strategic partner, bringing onchain curation and structuring expertise.
Where the platform goes next
The first strategies focus on the largest asset classes: stablecoins, Bitcoin, and Ethereum. After that, the roadmap is demand-driven. On timing, Jorge was direct: everything on the technical level is ready, and launch is a matter of weeks, not months, with the remaining time spent testing the full flow so every settlement and redemption runs cleanly from day one.
Asked what defines success in three years, he described Syntetika as the hub for regulated strategies and managers: the go-to platform for anyone bringing a strategy onchain, and for anyone who wants access to it.
Watch the full conversation
The complete AMA, including everything this recap left out, is on YouTube:
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