About Us

Limitless Fiat.
Decentralized Future.

Vision

Financial freedom and equal access for everyone

Mission

Pendulum aims to revolutionize the financial industry by providing user-friendly, transparent, and secure platform, fostering financial inclusion and equality.

Our Beliefs

Financial Inclusion through DeFi

Our commitment to DeFi innovation drives our mission to promote financial inclusion and foster a more equitable global economy.

Linking Fiat and DeFi

Pendulum’s interoperable smart contract blockchain means that fiat and DeFi can coexist for Forex and fiat services!

Decentralized Forex

We are excited to bringing deep fiat liquidity into DeFi, with opportunities to use exotic local currencies in a Forex-optimized AMM.

Community is Key

Our community is at the core of our efforts to establish a more inclusive financial system that is accessible to all.

Roadmap

Our Achievements

2014

  • Crypto pioneer Meinhard Benn founded SatoshiPay to make micropayments fast, global, and easy.

2017

  • Gained traction and partnerships with multiple media publishers, including Axel Springer.

2019

  • The multi-signature wallet for Stellar was launched.
  • Began developing cross-border B2b service DTransfer.

2020

  • SatoshiPay processed more than 1M euros in borderless content payments.
  • Our team discovered a problem: many global fiat-backed stabletokens currently cannot take advantage of use cases on smart contract blockchains.
  • Pendulum was created with the aim to become the missing link between fiat and DeFi.

2021

  • SatoshiPay received R&D Grant from Stellar for Pendulum Blockchain.
  • Launched a testnet prototype of Spacewalk, Stellar-  Polkadot bridge.

2022

  • Amplitude won Kusama Parachain Slot.
  • Pendulum won Polkadot Parachain Slot.

2023

  • Pendulum is live on Polkadot mainnet

Our Team

Alexander Wilke

Alexander Wilke

Co-Founder
Dr. Aaron Lindner

Dr. Aaron Lindner

Advisor
Daniel Masters

Daniel Masters

Advisor
Meinhard Benn

Meinhard Benn

Co-Founder
Tansel Inanc

Tansel Inanc

CFO
Prayag Desale

Prayag Desale

Product Manager
Marcel Ebert

Marcel Ebert

Lead Blockchain Engineer
Zoltan Veress

Zoltan Veress

DevOps Engineer
Kacper Szarkiewicz

Kacper Szarkiewicz

Frontend Developer
Gianfranco Tasteri

Gianfranco Tasteri

Blockchain/Substrate Engineer
Florian Beba

Florian Beba

Chief Strategy Officer