Omid Malekan

Omid Malekan is an author and adjunct faculty in cryptocurrency and blockchain technology at Columbia Business School, where he lectures on blockchain and crypto. A graduate of Economics from Columbia University, he founded Omid Malekan Asset Management, a semi-quantitative futures trading fund structured as a CTA.

Being a veteran in the crypto industry for almost a decade, Omid is an expert in crypto and blockchain technology. As a crypto SME, Omid advises individuals and corporations like Citi Ventures.

Omid authored ‘The Story of the Blockchain: A Beginner’s Guide to the Technology That Nobody Understands’ which was published in 2018 by Triple Smoke Stack. In this book, he shares anecdotes from everyday life and analogies from more relatable areas, narrating the story of blockchain technology since its very inception.

His recent book, ‘ReArchitecting Trust: The Curse of History and the Crypto Cure for Money, Markets, and Platforms’, provides the reader with a guided tour of how money, markets, and platforms have evolved, where things have gone off the rails, and the efforts of various players in the industry that can restore its integrity, re-instilling the faith of users.

Omid’s writings also appear time and again in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Spectator magazine, and his own blog on Medium.com. He is popularly Known as the Explainer-in-Chief of crypto owing to his unique ability to make complicated topics accessible to anyone.

Omid is a blogger and videographer. His animations and writing have previously appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Forbes. He's been previously interviewed by CNBC, Fox Business Network, The Nation and Slate.