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Cliffton Lee

Onchain strategy for institutions taking digital assets seriously.

I work with global asset managers, banks, and the protocols building the infrastructure they connect to. Scoping mandates, structuring deployments, executing tokenization programmes that hold up under legal, compliance, and treasury review.

Portrait of Cliffton Lee
Photographed in Singapore · 2025

Professional highlights.

  1. i.
    2024 / 2025 Arbitrum Foundation
    STEP

    $70M Stable Treasury Endowment Programme

    Designed and closed the $70M Stable Treasury Endowment Programme (STEP), the first institutional deployment of an onchain treasury into tokenized real-world assets. Sourced and structured allocations with BlackRock/Securitize (BUIDL), Franklin Templeton (BENJI), WisdomTree, Ondo, and OpenEden, covering tokenized treasuries, money market funds, and stablecoin-adjacent yield products.

    Acted as a trusted advisor to institutional counterparts on the operational mechanics of onchain deployment, including custody flows, regulatory considerations, settlement and redemption mechanics, oracle and pricing infrastructure, and post-trade servicing requirements specific to tokenized assets.

    Issuers
    BlackRock Securitize Franklin Templeton WisdomTree Ondo OpenEden
  2. ii.
    2024 / 2025 Arbitrum Foundation × Robinhood

    Robinhood Chain and tokenized US equities

    Supported the Robinhood Chain partnership launching tokenized US equities on the Arbitrum stack. Engaged across the commercial, product, and ecosystem workstreams as Robinhood brought tokenized real-world assets to retail and institutional investors on an Arbitrum-based chain.

    Partners
    Robinhood Arbitrum
  3. iii.
    2024 / 2025 Arbitrum Foundation

    $225M Arbitrum Gaming Ventures Fund

    Contributed to structured ecosystem partnership programmes totalling $96M+ across hundreds of technology teams, and led the $225M Gaming Catalyst Programme from whitespace identification through commercial model design and partner onboarding.

    Foundation
    Arbitrum

Eight years across institutional partnerships, programmes, and product.

Tally

Head of Strategy & Partnerships

Jul 2025 / present Current
Flip ⤺

Owns commercial partnerships and business development. Identifies, develops, and closes opportunities with institutional clients, exchanges, asset managers, and protocol treasuries.

Drives onchain capital formation and token operations for Ethereum Foundation, Uniswap, Arbitrum, and ZKsync. Leading exploration of an agentic AI capital formation platform.

Arbitrum Foundation

Growth & Strategy

Aug 2023 / Jul 2025
Flip ⤺

Designed and closed the $70M Stable Treasury Endowment Programme, deploying institutional capital into tokenized real-world assets alongside BlackRock, Franklin Templeton, Ondo Finance, and WisdomTree.

Supported the Robinhood Chain partnership and led the $225M Gaming Catalyst Programme. Built the institutional partnerships stack for onchain RWA adoption.

dYdX Foundation

SEA Growth Lead

May 2022 / Aug 2023
Flip ⤺

Built the Southeast Asia growth motion from zero. Opened Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam, and surrounding markets for the foundation.

Sourced and activated trading firms, infrastructure teams, and technology startups. Represented the foundation at SCB10X Bangkok Blockathon and THub.

Twilio

Product Manager

Jul 2019 / May 2023
Flip ⤺

Global operations on a $16M Alphanumeric Sender ID messaging product across the US, Estonia, India, Singapore, and Japan.

Built an automated B2C product line contributing $2.1M per quarter. Cut enterprise integration lead time by 22%. Led a cross-functional team of seven across product, engineering, and partner operations.

Pymetrics

Sales Development Lead

Sep 2017 / Jun 2019
Flip ⤺

VC-backed AI and HR-tech SaaS startup. Global sales development across New York, London, Singapore, and broader APAC.

Pipeline generation and enterprise outbound for AI-powered software sold to corporate HR teams.

In flight

What I'm actively building.

  • Tally Agentic AI capital formation platform with engineering and product
  • Suit Up Daily ingestion pipeline, expanding APAC regulatory coverage
  • Courtside Recalibrating the six-model ensemble ahead of the 2026 playoffs
  • 5-Min Markets Latency study, drafting Phase 2 design notes

Research

Independent intelligence work.

  • Courtside Six-model probabilistic ensemble for sports prediction markets. 77,000+ NBA game logs, public calibration tracking.
  • Edge Eight-step probabilistic pricing pipeline. Dynamic ensemble re-weighting against market consensus.
  • 5-Min Markets Millisecond-precision latency measurement. Exchange feeds, oracle updates, prediction market orderbook.

If you'd like to talk.

Email and LinkedIn are best. I read both daily. Telegram if we already know each other.