Murat Akdeniz is a founder and product manager in the cryptocurrency sector who has been building tools in the space since 2017. He is known as the founder of Primev and the FAST Protocol, projects with the stated mission to increase the transaction speed of the Ethereum network. ^{[1] [2]}​

Education

Akdeniz received a Master's degree in Technology Management from Cornell University in 2016. He previously earned a Bachelor's degree in Business, Organizations, and Society from Franklin & Marshall College, which he attended from 2008 to 2012. ^[3]

Career

Murat Akdeniz has worked in product management and protocol development across financial services, blockchain infrastructure, and decentralized applications. He began his career in traditional finance, holding product management roles at Citi Ventures and JPMorgan Intelligent Solutions between 2015 and 2017, where he worked on data-driven applications, cybersecurity tools, and large-scale enterprise systems.

He later transitioned into the blockchain sector, serving as founder of Mirian, a social Ethereum wallet project, and as an advisor to Soluna, a blockchain computing company focused on renewable-energy-powered infrastructure. From 2019 to 2020, Akdeniz was a Senior Product Manager at PeerNova, where he worked on applying blockchain concepts to enterprise financial data analytics.

Between 2020 and 2022, Akdeniz held product leadership roles at Blocknative, focusing on blockchain mempool data and transaction visibility, and at Polymarket, where he served as Principal Product Manager overseeing core product development for the prediction market platform. In November 2022, he founded Primev, a protocol aimed at improving coordination among maximal extractable value (MEV) participants in decentralized systems, where he continues to work on MEV infrastructure and protocol design. ^{[1] [3]}