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About Octav
Octav is a DeFi data analytics platform focused on decoding wallet portfolios across multiple chains and protocols. Its core business is providing accurate, position-level portfolio data, covering lending, liquidity pools, staking, perpetual contracts, and options, rather than simply displaying token balances.
Its main competitive advantage lies in deep parsing of complex DeFi positions, especially in areas often overlooked by other tools, such as options, perps, and the Solana ecosystem. The platform emphasizes data accuracy and completeness, aiming to provide a reliable data foundation for portfolio tracking, tax reporting, and fund accounting.
Octav addresses the market pain point where common blockchain explorers and analytics tools often fail to accurately reflect the true value of DeFi positions. For example, they may only show token balances without recognizing the underlying assets or liabilities in lending protocols, or they may fail to properly value LP tokens. Octav solves this by decoding positions at a granular level.
In the past six months, Octav has launched an API product, allowing developers to integrate its portfolio data into their own applications. The API emphasizes real-time data, SOC 2 compliance, and a credit-based pricing model. It also introduced a daily portfolio snapshot feature, designed for audit and tax scenarios, enabling users to access historical portfolio states at any point in time.
In the past six months, Octav shifted focus to AI and data infrastructure. It launched a DeFi API suite for AI agents, including an MCP server, x402 pay-per-call pricing, an agent development kit, and a Rust CLI, with support for options, perpetuals, and Solana protocols. It also became the first to integrate Chainlink's Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol (CCIP), putting cryptographically signed NAV data on-chain for independent verification, extending its earlier Chainlink Proof of Reserve work. Additionally, it released a unified treasury reporting API that retrieves tokens, DeFi positions, price sources, and reconciled totals in a single call, addressing double-counted receipt tokens. Future priorities include deepening AI-agent data services, expanding on-chain verification coverage, improving multi-chain DeFi decoding coverage (e.g., 100% in a benchmark vs. Nansen), and strengthening developer ecosystem and real-time data infrastructure.
Co-founder & CEO Mathieu Baril: Holds a Bachelor's in Automation Production Engineering from École de technologie supérieure and a certificate in Innovation and Entrepreneurship from Stanford GSB. Entered crypto in 2012, with 7+ years of product development experience. Former Strategy Lead at Zapper, angel investor at DCV Capital. Previously worked as a systems engineer at Kinova Robotics and Auris Health (acquired by J&J), gaining robotics expertise.
Co-founder & CTO Luc Blackburn: Holds a Bachelor's in Software Engineering from École de technologie supérieure, with 15 years of software engineering experience. Started crypto journey in 2012, founding a mining facility. Previously held senior developer roles at Otodata, Accedian Network, and CGI, specializing in backend development and Salesforce.