Paul Claudius is a serial entrepreneur, finance expert and crypto investor. He is co-founder of BlockState AG, a fintech providing blockchain based financial market infrastructure for investment banks, asset managers and other financial institutions and founding member of DIA Association, a Swiss non-profit association that provides crowd sourced and verified financial information. Paul has more than 10 years experience in various strategic matters and international growth initiatives scaling high growth businesses across Europe. Passionate about innovative technologies and digital business. Blockchain and crypto asset enthusiast. BlockState, a Swiss based SRO regulated financial intermediary, providing a modular securitization and tokenization infrastructure to create access for investors to a broad range of assets, including: SME equity, Real Estate, Exotic assets (copper mine, fine art, loan portfolio, …) BlockState provides an industry-grade, customizable toolbox that enables better access to privately owned assets through tokenization & securitization, issuance and lifecycle management. We connect asset owners / issuers with investors through an end-to-end legal and technology stack supported by a strong, global network of partners.