Nascent

Nascent is a multi-strategy proprietary investment and frontier research firm focused on open finance and the crypto economy. Founded in 2020 by veteran quantitative trader Dan Elitzer and Will Price, it is headquartered in Chicago. Managing hundreds of millions in proprietary assets, it covers on-chain derivative protocols, decentralized lending systems, MEV infrastructure, and composable financial architectures. Nascent combines academic-grade research capabilities with on-chain liquidity practical experience, deeply participating in early mechanism stress testing, market-making liquidity bootstrapping, and network underlying governance of open-source protocols.