Speaker of WebX 2026
Masa 'Senshi' Kikuchi
Secured Finance AGFounder & CEO
Founder & CEO of Secured Finance AG, a Swiss on-chain financial infrastructure company developing protocols for collateralized funding transactions.
The protocol has operated live fixed-rate markets on Ethereum mainnet for over three years — running quarterly auction-and-roll cycles with zero loss of funds from its smart contracts — and provides the collateral infrastructure for UBS's tokenized money market fund, uMINT, enabling JPYC borrowing on Ethereum.
Since May 2026, Secured Finance has participated in Japan's Tokenized JGB On-Chain Repo Working Group (Progmat/DCC) as the sole lending protocol among its 50+ member organizations.
Previously served as Head of Global Structured Rates Products, Japan at a global investment bank, and holds a master's degree in software engineering from Harvard University.
The protocol has operated live fixed-rate markets on Ethereum mainnet for over three years — running quarterly auction-and-roll cycles with zero loss of funds from its smart contracts — and provides the collateral infrastructure for UBS's tokenized money market fund, uMINT, enabling JPYC borrowing on Ethereum.
Since May 2026, Secured Finance has participated in Japan's Tokenized JGB On-Chain Repo Working Group (Progmat/DCC) as the sole lending protocol among its 50+ member organizations.
Previously served as Head of Global Structured Rates Products, Japan at a global investment bank, and holds a master's degree in software engineering from Harvard University.
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