About

Core Contributors, RiskFI & The Risk Protocol Vision...

Core Contributors

Risk Protocol Atelier is the core contributor group building the foundational risk layer of crypto. We are a methodically assembled team that blends deep crypto-native experience with decades of institutional finance expertise. Our contributors bring specialized backgrounds in DeFi and CeFi protocol design, quantitative trading, risk management, derivatives structuring and valuation, volatility modeling and research, and crypto GTM strategy.

Our founder, KG, spent many years in institutional finance before turning his focus to crypto in 2020. He was drawn by a striking imbalance: crypto had pioneered entirely new forms of market infrastructure, yet remained underdeveloped in one of finance’s most essential pillars—risk. The Risk Protocol was created to close that gap and bring institutional-grade risk engineering to crypto.

Our CMO previously led community, marketing, business development, and developer relations at a major crypto network, and grew its user base to more than 55 million and its active developer ecosystem to several hundred builders.

Our Head of Risk served as a senior portfolio manager and head of derivatives at one of the world’s largest quantitative investment firms.

Our Head of Research is a leading econometrician who has worked extensively—and co-authored papers—with Nobel Prize–winning economists recognized for their breakthroughs in volatility research.

Together, we are building the risk ecosystem and infrastructure that the next generation of crypto demands and deserves.

RiskFi

RiskFi represents a new category within DeFi in which risk—volatility, liquidity stress, tail events, stablecoin depeg risk, funding-rate risk, and more—becomes an explicit, on-chain asset. Instead of burying risk inside complex instruments, RiskFi isolates and tokenizes it, enabling transparent markets where users can directly speculate on, hedge, transfer, or acquire specific risk exposures.

RiskFi fills a structural gap in the crypto financial stack. While trading and payments infrastructure has advanced rapidly (AMMs, perps, intent-based systems etc.), robust and transparent risk markets have lagged behind.

"By making risk measurable, composable, and liquid, RiskFi unlocks new forms of trading opportunities, hedging, and risk-aware yield generation. It lays the foundation for a mature crypto financial system—one where risk is traded with the same granularity and transparency as any other digital asset."

We estimate that RiskFi represents a conservatively sized $350B+ market opportunity.

The Risk Protocol

The Risk Protocol is pioneering RiskFi through several first-of-their-kind primitives:

• Risk Tokenization – isolating and packaging specific risk exposures into tradeable SMART tokens.

• Risk Prediction Markets – enabling users to trade directional and non-directional risk events with precision.

• Risk Intelligence – delivering next-generation risk analytics, indices, and real-time signals for the entire ecosystem.

These primitives open alpha opportunities and risk-expressions that simply do not exist elsewhere in crypto.