Manuel Blanco Appleby is a seasoned professional with 18 years of experience in the finance industry, including trading, venture capital, investment banking, liquidity providers, tech, and innovation. As the Founder of Gaugecash, he is leading the development of the first decentralized monetary system, targeting the already 50 B usd daily market (Tether) and the 5 T usd daily volume of EUR-USD markets, all in a DeFI fashion. He has also received several specializations in investment management, business modeling, executive data science, blockchain, Bitcoin, and cryptocurrency technologies from prestigious universities such as Wharton, University of Pennsylvania, and Princeton University. Manuel's career highlights include being the top Money Manager for Iberoamérica at ACM Markets, Switzerland, now Swissquote Bank, and Tech Crunch 50, Silicon Valley 2009, Clasemovil, best innovative Education Company. He is also the Founder and Money Manager at Dados a tu favor, the Business Strategy Officer at Wegoo Interactive, and the former IB and Money Manager at ACM Markets, Switzerland. Manuel is passionate about wealth creation, theoretical physics, behavioral economics, DeFI, and golf.