Hi, my name is Abraham and this is my blog. This post will serve as a brief introduction to myself and this blog.

Me:

As of writing this, I am 22 years old and live in NYC (though I will be moving to Toronto soon). I grew up living in a number of different places (primarily in North America), but now consider myself a Canadian and view Toronto as my “home.”

I did my undergrad at University College London where I studied British Law and graduated with an LLB (Bachelor of Laws). Following my time at UCL I spent two years at Columbia Law School where I studied American Law and graduated with a JD (Juris Doctor) in 2023.

While, my motivation for studying law was distinct from virtually all of my classmates, I found the experience at both schools very rewarding.

Somewhat interestingly, I first came across crypto when I was 14-15 years old but regrettably I did not spend any time learning anything about it.

My first real foray into blockchain was in 2019 when I learned of and consequently became very interested in blockchain-oriented use cases relating to commercial real estate (particularly surrounding unlocking liquidity in a historically ultra-illiquid asset class).

After spending some time researching this particular use-case, I came to the conclusion that you could create liquid and compelling secondary markets for individual assets (e.g. an apartment building), but you couldn’t do so legally.

Doing so legally would effectively nullify virtually all of the advantages obtained through the use of blockchain. This realization put a temporary end to my interest in blockchain.

That was until 2021. In 2021, a close friend of mine had very quickly become very interested in crypto (starting with Bitcoin and then NFTs).

Fundamentally, I was skeptical of Bitcoin (and still am <-- although in a different way than I was in the past) and I was also doubtful of NFTs. But, the exciting potential associated with Ethereum and smart contracts, quickly overcame my initial skepticism.

From there, I’ve become obsessed with crypto and crypto has grown to become the primary thing I spend my time on.

With that friend and others, we launched a DAO [ReidarDAO] in 2021 which focused (primarily) on the collection of digital assets and later the next year I co-founded a business [Coterie Capital] that offered automated DAO creation and bespoke smart contract work.

During my two years at Columbia, I served on the board of Blockchain@CU (Columbia University’s Blockchain Club), co-founded the Columbia Law Blockchain Club, led a social life, and managed to maintain a somewhat decent attendance record to my classes at law school.

Now, i’m the founder of Tholos. Tholos is an MPC-based digital asset custody platform built for Funds, Businesses, and DAOs enabling these organizations to securely hold digital assets and easily interact with Web3.

Tholos is the natural evolution of my history in the crypto-space.

I personally experienced the pains of managing digital assets as an organization through ReidarDAO, worked with a number of diverse organizations that equally suffered from the same pain-point while building Coterie, and met numerous people spanning the industry that have greatly contributed to my knowledge and understanding of the space through my time contributing to Blockchain@CU and CLBC.

Now, my time is devoted to creating an ultra-functional, secure, and seamless platform equipping organizations to better manage crypto-assets → Tholos

The Blog:

I’m hoping to write and share content here semi-frequently on a number of different topics (with a focus on blockchain + crypto).

Historically, i’ve struggled to motivate myself to frequently write, but let’s see what happens.

To be clear, the contents of this blog are solely my opinion and do not reflect the opinions of any business or organization I have an affiliation with.