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. Torsten Stüber

Dr. Torsten Stüber

Co-Founder & CTO
Dr. Aaron Lindner

Dr. Aaron Lindner

Advisor
Daniel Masters

Daniel Masters

Advisor
Meinhard Benn

Meinhard Benn

Co-Founder
Tansel Inanc

Tansel Inanc

CFO
Bahila Hijazi

Bahila Hijazi

Partnership Manager
Arjun Yadav

Arjun Yadav

Head of Product
Prayag Desale

Prayag Desale

Product Manager
Gonzalo Montiel

Gonzalo Montiel

Blockchain Engineer
Marcel Ebert

Marcel Ebert

Lead Blockchain Engineer
Liam McManus

Liam McManus

Marketing Lead
Jiesen Toh

Jiesen Toh

Marketing Specialist
Klaus Dietz

Klaus Dietz

Brand Designer
Carla Yap

Carla Yap

Blockchain Developer
Zoltan Veress

Zoltan Veress

DevOps Engineer
Kacper Szarkiewicz

Kacper Szarkiewicz

Frontend Developer
Amr Gad

Amr Gad

Operations Manager
Nicolas Hempelmann

Nicolas Hempelmann

Finance Manager
Katerina Voronkova

Katerina Voronkova

HR and Operations Lead
Dennis Verghaeghe

Dennis Verghaeghe

Finance & Controlling Manager
Chrissy Krüger

Chrissy Krüger

HR Manager
Xiangyu Tsai

Xiangyu Tsai

Finance Working Student
Anna Teklinska

Anna Teklinska

Product Manager
Gianfranco Tasteri

Gianfranco Tasteri

Blockchain/Substrate Engineer
Ben Conway

Ben Conway

Community Manager
Bogdan Sandu

Bogdan Sandu

Blockchain/Substrate Engineer
Melodie Vignaud

Melodie Vignaud

Junior Business Development Manager
Florian Beba

Florian Beba

Chief Strategy Officer