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About Glider
Glider was founded in 2024 by Brian Huang and John Johnson, positioned as a "financial orchestration layer" for on-chain portfolios, enabling users to build, test, and execute trading strategies automatically in a non-custodial manner.
In April 2025, Glider completed a $4 million strategic funding round led by a16z CSX, with participation from Coinbase Ventures, Uniswap Ventures, GSR, and others. This marked a key milestone, reflecting institutional recognition of its automated DeFi infrastructure direction. Around the same time, Glider was accepted into the a16z Crypto Startup Accelerator spring cohort, gaining ecosystem resources.
The platform is currently in beta and plans to launch in the coming months. In the long term, its API can embed automated portfolios into wallets, AI agents, DEXs, and other scenarios, advancing on-chain asset management from manual operations to intelligent automation and lowering the barrier for everyday investors.
Key progress for Glider in the past six months:
In March 2026, Glider and Ondo Finance launched a platform for custom tokenized stock portfolios, letting users build and automatically rebalance baskets of US equities while directly holding the underlying assets—no brokerage account, wallet, or gas fees, overcoming the liquidity limits of onchain ETFs.
In June 2026, with Ondo Global Markets, Glider launched the first onchain direct-indexed Magnificent 7 portfolio, directly holding all seven stocks and earning ~5% additional yield, with no expense ratio or minimum, enabling tax optimization and delta-neutral strategies.
In July 2026, Grow integrated the Glider API to launch curated strategy portfolios (AI, semiconductors, politician holdings, etc.) with one-tap access, fully non-custodial, no new contracts or audits, integrated in under a week.
On the roadmap, Glider is building an “onchain brokerage” infrastructure, expanding into commodities and other asset classes, and enabling lending and yield generation on positions. Through direct ownership, it aims to unlock strategies impossible in traditional funds, opening access to global investors and scaling tokenized assets.
Co-founders:
John Johnson: Co-founder of Glider. Previously Co-founder & CTO at Smol Studios (crypto product studio), Founding Engineer #1 at Matcha.xyz (0x Labs), Engineering Manager at 0x Labs, Senior Software Engineer at Textio and Ultimate Software. BS in Computer Engineering from University of Central Florida.
Brian Huang: Co-founder & CEO of Glider. Formerly at XTX Markets (high-frequency trading) and led product development for trading systems at Anchorage Digital. Graduated from MIT with degrees in Computer Science and Management; involved in MIT's Bitcoin Project since 2014.
Key executives:
Vincent Chen: Head of Business Development (since Jul 2025). Previously VP of Ecosystem at Glider, Deployment Engineer at API3.