Lucas is the co-founder of Centrifuge, the institutional ecosystem for on-chain credit. In 2020, Centrifuge became the first DeFi protocol to bring Real-World Assets (RWA) on-chain, and it has since facilitated the first institutional grade RWA transaction with Sky, (formerly MakerDAO) and BlockTower Credit tokenizing private credit funds totalling $220M in 2023. With a background at the crossroads of technology and business, Lucas has led engineering at many startups including CTO & Co-Founder at DeinDeal, a Groupon competitor acquired in 2011 and an early engineer at Taulia, a supply chain finance fintech acquired by SAP in 2022. Lucas partnered with the Taulia co-founders to build Centrifuge in 2017. Lucas is pioneering the tokenization of real-world assets on-chain, unlocking a multi-trillion-dollar opportunity for the DeFi ecosystem.