Tascha Punyaneramitdee is a finance and technology professional whose career spans investment banking, product management, and blockchain-based finance. She is the founder and chief executive officer of INFINIT and is associated with earlier decentralized finance (DeFi) initiatives including Alpha Finance Lab. ^[2]

Education

Punyaneramitdee studied at the University of California, Berkeley from 2012 to 2016, earning a Bachelor of Arts in Economics. In December 2019, she enrolled in the MBA program at Harvard Business School but withdrew in April 2020 before completing the degree. ^[3]

Career

Punyaneramitdee began her career with a series of internships across finance and consulting. In 2013 and 2015, she worked with Phatra Securities Plc in private wealth management and investment banking roles in Bangkok. She also held investment internships at Wilshire Associates in 2015 and at Pacific Oak, LLC from 2015 to early 2016. In 2015, she interned at MergerTech Advisors in Emeryville, followed by a venture capital internship at CreativeVentures.vc in 2016. That same year, she completed an investment banking internship at Jefferies in San Francisco and an earlier transaction advisory services internship at EY in Bangkok in 2014. She also participated in a consulting mentorship program with Deloitte between 2013 and 2014. In 2017, she joined Jefferies as an investment banking analyst in the San Francisco Bay Area, later continuing in the same role in London until September 2018. She then worked as a product manager at Tencent in Bangkok from October 2018 to March 2020. In June 2020, she founded Alpha Finance Lab, where she continues to serve as an advisor. Since May 2021, she has also been a member of the Board of Directors (Thailand) for the University of California, Berkeley. In September 2023, she founded INFINIT, where she serves as Chief Executive Officer. ^[1]

Interviews

Crypto Journey

On APE X CRYPTO podcast, Punyaneramitdee discussed her rise to prominence in the DeFi space by founding Alpha Finance Lab, pioneering leverage yield farming, and achieving significant TVL milestones. Her journey spanned Thailand, the US, and Europe, pivoting from traditional finance to product management at Tencent before venturing into DeFi. Inspired by blockchain’s potential to revolutionize financial systems, she co-founded Alpha Finance, which became notable for innovative protocols. Later, she launched INFINIT to develop AI-powered DeFi solutions, including INFINIT Intelligence and INFINIT Strategies, to automate and simplify DeFi investing through AI agents and personalized research tools. Punyaneramitdee emphasized the importance of building a robust infrastructure for agent-driven finance, advocating a future in which decentralized, agentic systems handle most transactions, transforming traditional payment gateways and financial workflows. She shared insights on fundraising, market challenges, regional differences, and her vision for integrating AI into Web3, aspiring to lay foundational infrastructure for an agentic financial ecosystem. Ultimately, she aimed to democratize access, foster innovation, and prepare the industry for a world increasingly driven by autonomous digital agents. ^[4]

AI Agent Environment

On the Soberin podcast in November 2025, Punyaneramitdee shared insights into how INFINIT aimed to leverage AI to enhance decentralized finance (DeFi) by simplifying complex financial systems, making them more efficient, transparent, and accessible. She explained that INFINIT's goal was to create AI-driven tools that could help users discover opportunities, evaluate assets, and execute trades without needing deep financial knowledge or reliance on traditional institutions. The company's infrastructure included multiple AI-powered DeFi agents, analogous to team members, capable of managing specific financial products and collaborating to execute multi-step transactions across various blockchains. INFINIT had already established key partnerships within the crypto ecosystem, including integrations with major blockchains, wallets, and developer communities, enabling its products to be more scalable and user-friendly. Punyaneramitdee emphasized that blockchain's open data environment is naturally suited to AI integration, fostering rapid development and innovation, with the ultimate vision of an interconnected agent economy advancing toward more autonomous and accessible financial services. She also recounted her personal experience in crypto, highlighting the industry's fast-paced nature, which demands strategic foresight, and encouraged new users to explore INFINIT’s platform firsthand. ^[6]

Liquidity Hook Money Markets

On the Cryptonews Spotlight podcast in May 2024, Punyaneramitdee discussed her path into crypto and blockchain. She was an early crypto enthusiast who started in 2017. She previously led Stella, a protocol offering multi-chain leverage strategies, and then founded INIT Capital to develop a liquidity hook money market platform designed to enhance liquidity layers across DeFi protocols. She explained that this platform enables protocols and users to easily hook into and utilize liquidity through modular, composable technology, facilitating seamless lending, borrowing, and yield strategies across multiple chains, such as Mantle and Blast. She emphasized the importance of building versatile, demand-driven products that adapt to evolving market dynamics while maintaining protocol safety. Punyaneramitdee discussed the industry's progress in managing liquidity, noting that yield generation on the platform helps retain liquidity, and highlighted how point systems and meme coins are currently popular tools for community engagement. She also addressed broader topics such as the challenges of information asymmetry in DeFi, the nascent states of real-world asset tokenization and DePIN, and the ongoing development of Bitcoin's ecosystem, including Layer 2 solutions. Throughout the conversation, she noted that innovation and community-focused approaches—such as meme coins and points—are key to onboarding the masses, though many sectors remain in early stages. Overall, she expressed optimism about DeFi's future, emphasizing continuous technical innovation and strategic ecosystem-building to meet the demand for faster, more efficient, and more inclusive financial services worldwide. ^[5]

Panels

Next Generation DeFi

At Southeast Asia Blockchain Week in June 2024, Punyaneramitdee participated in a panel that discussed the evolving landscape of DeFi, highlighting ongoing efforts to improve user experience, liquidity integration, and security. Panelists included moderator Andy Cho (Frax Finance), Ran Yi (Orderly Network), Ken Chia (Pendle), Andrew Bonneau (Carbonmark), and Samuel Yim (1inch). They noted that onboarding remains a major challenge, with initiatives aimed at simplifying wallet access, chain switching, and reducing gas fees. Addressing liquidity fragmentation was identified as crucial, with solutions such as cross-chain bridges and shared pools being developed to facilitate seamless asset movement across layers and chains. Perspectives on institutional involvement emphasized the importance of regulatory compliance, KYC integration, and the creation of hybrid permissioned/permissionless systems to foster wider adoption. The potential convergence of DeFi and traditional finance (trade finance, RWAs) was seen as promising, with blockchain enabling real-time data, automation, and transparency, especially for environmental assets such as carbon credits. Security concerns persisted, prompting protocols to invest heavily in audits, smart contract safeguards, and user education. Finally, many speakers predicted that the future of DeFi would see unified interfaces and wallet functionalities becoming as intuitive as web browsers, with AI integration enhancing trading, data analytics, and market automation. Overall, they envisioned a decentralized, interoperable, and user-friendly DeFi ecosystem that bridges traditional financial systems and Web3 innovations, in line with a broader shift towards mainstream adoption. ^[7]