Sam Kazemian – Milestones
Key milestones and important events in Sam Kazemian's history.
Showing 14 milestones for Sam Kazemian
Frax selects Crypto.com for institutional custody and liquidity
Frax selects Crypto.com Custody to provide secure institutional custody and liquidity solutions for FRAX and other Frax ecosystem assets.
crypto.com/ca/company-news/frax-selects-cryptocom-for-secure-institutional-supportFraxtal TVL surpasses $1B
Fraxtal’s total value locked surpasses $1 billion, marking a key scaling milestone for the Frax ecosystem.
l2beat.com/scaling/projects/fraxtalBecomes advisor to Stable Labs
Sam Kazemian takes an advisory role with Stable Labs, a restaking AVS focused on real-world asset infrastructure.
x.com/samkazemian/status/1961119429900878285Fraxtal TVL surpasses $500M
Fraxtal, the Frax ecosystem’s layer-2 blockchain, surpasses $500 million in total value locked, making it one of the fastest L2s to reach this level.
decentralized-finance.io/article/fraxfinance/Becomes advisor to Agora
Sam Kazemian becomes an advisor to Agora, a VanEck-backed fully reserved stablecoin issuer.
x.com/samkazemian/status/1961119429900878285Invests as angel in Level stablecoin protocol
Sam Kazemian participates as an angel investor in Level, a DeFi yield-bearing stablecoin protocol, in a funding round led by Dragonfly and Polychain.
www.coindesk.com/fr/business/2025/03/17/stablecoin-protocol-level-aims-to-expand-usd80m-defi-yield-token-with-fresh-capital-raiseHelps draft the GENIUS Act of 2025
Sam Kazemian joins a bipartisan group of tech and national security leaders contributing to the drafting of the GENIUS Act, U.S. legislation establishing a federal framework for payment stablecoins.
x.com/SeanKelleyX/status/1955351497715101916Frax community approves FIP-418 to back frxUSD with BlackRock’s BUIDL
The Frax community approves governance proposal FIP-418 to back the frxUSD stablecoin with BlackRock’s USD Institutional Digital Liquidity Fund (BUIDL).
www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/frax-launches-frxusd-stablecoin-backed-by-the-blackrocks-usd-institutional-digital-liquidity-fund-buidl-tokenized-by-securitize-302341497.htmlFrax publishes 2025 Vision roadmap
Frax Finance publishes its 2025 Vision roadmap outlining plans to become a decentralized central bank of crypto, including a Fraxtal hard fork and FRAX rebrand.
www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/future-of-defi--frax-2025-vision-roadmap-302329672.htmlFrax launches on Ethereum mainnet
Frax Finance launches its FRAX stablecoin on the Ethereum mainnet at 0:00 UTC, quickly surpassing $43 million in TVL.
defiprime.com/fraxStarts Frax Finance
Sam Kazemian begins developing Frax Finance, a fractional-algorithmic stablecoin protocol.
defiprime.com/fraxEveripedia raises $30M from Galaxy Digital
Everipedia, co-founded by Sam Kazemian, raises $30 million in funding led by Galaxy Digital’s EOS.IO Ecosystem Fund.
fortune.com/2018/02/08/blockchain-everipedia/Graduates from UCLA
Sam Kazemian graduates from UCLA with a double major in neuroscience and philosophy.
www.brainfund.com/sam-kazemianCo-founds Everipedia (now IQ.wiki)
Sam Kazemian co-founds Everipedia (now IQ.wiki) in his UCLA dorm room with Theodor Forselius.
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